Why did they change the colour?

I really fancy a 4000, but why did they change the colour? The white / black looks sweet, the blue looks cheep and nasty

Dunno. Prolly just a "look-at-us-as-we-make-a-fresh-start"-thingie. Haven't seen a blue one irl but I don't think it is as nice as the old black'n'white.

AKAI - there is only ONE colour scheme for stock MPC's... cream/white, red highlites, dark pads. Don't mess with a winning formula. And do the 1000 in the trad scheme as well. THX!!

SpikeyMan wrote:"look-at-us-as-we-make-a-fresh-start"

If they wanted to say that, they could have made them come stock with 8 outputs or some other value added thing. The blue looks crap.

I personally like the new blue one's better, even though I have a white one. Haven't seen one yet either, even on ebay.

pictures of the blue MPC 4000 really dont do it justices...i was thinkin the same shit when i was lookin at gettin mine...i wanted the white one...but now i got the blue in real life i look better to me

I want to color up those arm rest and corners, or how to say that, to White, i got white one, by the way

they changed from white to blue because they had no more white paint in the factory

... and the blue was $0.95 cheaper!


Watch this, after slagging off the blue 4000, I bet I end up getting one! Is there anything else different about them?

Are there any shops still selling the white one in the UK?

it s just the paint really, it s the same MPc 4000s

I dunno if there are any shops still selling white ones

rpobably still are...

The chinese govenment, declared the use of white paint to be punishable by death.

There's nothing "cheap" or "nasty" about an MPC 4000, no matter what color it comes in. I had a woman at Guitar Center tell me that the 4000 only came in white, while i was waiting for mine to be delivered. She kept calling me to assure me that the blue color was only for the MPC 1000's. When my MPC 4000 finally came, i called her back to ask her if she'd seen a blue one yet and she insisted that i had the machines mixed up. Till this day, that has to be the funniest discussion i'd ever had about the 4000.

The pictures of the blue models don't say anything close to what the actual sight of one in front of you does. For those who've never seen one, please lay off the bad mouthing until to you do see one....you'll end up eating your words. There's no difference between the 2 models function-wise, it's only color, drive space, I/O, RAM and CD-ROM read/write/rewrite speeds. We all love our machines the same.

Somebody post a pic!