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Amiga 4000T: The Best Amiga in the World

ver been an Amiga better than Amiga 4000T. The T stands for tower, but this computer did not stand out in Amiga history due to its format factor, as Commodore had already been selling the tower version of A3000.

As a matter of fact, Escom did re-purpose a PC case for this Amiga, the obvious proof being the speaker on/off button which is labeled "Turbo" to denote its original purpose of throttling an IBM-compatible CPU. When the A4000 tower was first delivered to users, one could find Usernet postings by Dave Haynie himself who had high expectations of that chip; at that time it was indeed a huge improvement in storage speed compared to IDE or the previous SCSI generation. To make things worse, even the most loyal Amiga fans had to admit that neither Escom nor any of the subsequent inheritants of the Commodore legacy were able to present any reasonable roadmap for the platform's development.

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