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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: amigakid on May 22, 2007, 10:28:44 PM
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Ok just for fun (I know its been done before), but I was wondering what model of Amiga is every-1's favorite out there.
I guess Mine would be the Commodore Amiga (later dubbed the A1000) because it was the first and the Keyboard Garage was just kool. My runner up is the A4000 toaster system, it was just plain fun. I also have to throw in the Walker Demo on the A2000, I remember the first time i saw it, amazing.
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Too me the best is the A1200. AGA and accellerator madness. I like the PCMCIA slot that I can use for NIC, Compact Flash and SCSI expansion. Having a tiny sized harddisk storing a crazy 4GB of data I think is pretty cool. Also the formfactor, at least it does not remind me of a standard PC :-).
But the prize for cuteness goes to the A600. Just too bad it cannot be expanded (accellerators are too hard to come by) and ECS is somewhat limited IMHO.
I'm just not into big box amiga's.
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Hard to choose... A1200 or A2000 ? :roll:
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Dear Friend:
My favorite amiga is the amiga 1200. I souped it up:
a1200 030/50mhz/18mb ram/2 gig hd. I love it!!!
rednova
-mobilis in mobili-
www.feryogi.com
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A1000, first real computer I used and learned on over many long nights that turned into mornings.
A2000, waited a long time to afford to upgrade to this model, but shortly after getting it I was allowed to get a 0% interest loan from work for computer equipment, up to $3,000 US dollars and I loaded that A2000 up with a bridgeboard, 030 accellerator w/SCSI controller and 8mb RAM, DCTV and several other software titles. Spent every penny of that $3,000 plus more in one day at an Amiga shop that I drove 3 hours to get to.
Next big step was to the A4000D in a Power Tower w/Video Toaster/Flyer setup which I later added a CyberStorm PPC to.
I have aquired every Amiga in between and like the A3000 a lot too, but the three above were milestones for me in my Amiga journey. The last piece of the collection was the rare A3000T, which I think is probably the best made Amiga model and since it was the last one purchased, it also holds a special place in my vast collection.
Amiga crazy??? :crazy: You bet I am! Still looking for bits and software titles here and there. Someone is going to inherit a huge collection one of these days (hopefully far into the future). Just now trying to settle into semi-retirement and hope to spend many hours on my Amiga collection very soon. Just like the good old days! Hooray!
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1200t cause i built the damn thing and put all i could into it, but...my sx32(of which I have 2) was my all around favorite, for gaming, interneting, networking. ;-)
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amigakid:
I sold all my Amigas except an A600. I love that one with its nice
1084S monitor.
Wasn't the best model technically, but looks nice and is pretty small.
Also I liked the CDTV.
I used to like the A3000T, but never owned one and meanwhile I think
it is just too big and even when given for free I wouldn't take it
anymore... well, changing times.
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- 1200,
hard to beat this exellent and efficient design! A real amiga's amiga.
- the 4000 tower
it has 2 video slots so you can run a toaster AND a gfx card (like the piccasso IV)
The ONLY amiga for me.
-the 1000
it a sweet design, and I wanted ont eht emoment I first saw it! Keyboard garage and all.. niffty!
-3000 tower
by far the sturdiest amiga ever... that just how things where done during that time. However there are technical reasons this one does not win.
-3000 d
beautifull..... however horrable once you open it up! what cramped mess!
-2000
ugly ugly ugly. Sorry Dommy you are wrong...while the 2000 WAS the flagship for a while the 3000 T adn the later the 4000 T where commonly know as the flagship.
home made towers... NO, I have not seen one that did not look horrable and did not fall to pieces.
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The A500 and the A1200.
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I started with the 500 when it was new, so I have very fond memories of that one, But if I had to pick, I would say the a3000 :)
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For me it's the A3000 hands down, looks great, is built like a tank and the on board Amber chip makes life so much easier. However, the A3000 does have one major flaw, ZIP RAM, I hate it with a passion. I'm forced to either shell out for expensive RAM chips, an expensive accelerator or a super rare and outrageously expensive ZIP to SIMM converter.
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A4000D, easy. Next, A3000D. After that A2000.
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My favorite is my C= A3000T
2nd place would have to go to the A1000
or did I get those backwards?
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The best is the A3000D... its cute too!
VERY nice when populated with 16MEG Static Column RAM :-)
Az
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can we make polls? we should be able to..
this should of been a poll..
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"The Best"
A1200 for me, followed by the A3000.
"Favorite"
Varies from year to year... :-) Right now my A500 project. From a technical perspective it's not the coolest amiga, but I'm having fun. I'll have a few pics in the photo gallery once I get the case for the GVP A530 repainted. I'm surprised at how much faster/more responsive the SCSI controller is over the A1200 IDE (suXXorz).
Next project will be an A3000, if I ever get the time. :-(
"Worst/least favorite"
The A2000 is the WORST amiga ever, I dunno why any sane person would like that model :-? We had one at our high school, every time I walked by it I thought "what a piece of crap, why don't they buy a real computer"
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Easily hands down the A3000 Desktop & Tower they were the machines with no expence spared.
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The A3000 of course :lol:
It was probably the high water mark and most complete and professional of the amiga line.
The A1200, and A4000 although cool were really cost reduced versions of what most people would have considered a professional computer at the time of there release.
Actually I never had an AGA amiga until WinUAE.
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My favorite was an A3000/060/PIV I owned for several years. I broke it up and sold it in a fit of stupidity (I wanted a computer that would work with my WinCE PDA).
My second favorite would be the A1000 bought used in 1990. Still runs perfectly!
After realizing what I had done with the A3000, I bought a slightly dodgy (bad sound) A4000 on ebay. I've added a Prometheus card for networking and Voodoo graphics. Wish I could afford accelerator and PIV cards, but I can't swing the prices they bring on ebay :^(
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Up until a while ago I would have said the A1200 because it is so much fun to upgrade. You also have the option of cramming as much as you can in the desktop case, or putting it in a tower and going crazy with mods and upgrades. Now I would have a hard time choosing between the A1200 and the A4000D. I love the way everything fits in the A4000D case, and using Zorro cards is much more satisfying than using PCI cards through a Mediator. For me, the A4000D feels more like an Amiga than an A1200 with PCI cards.
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moto
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hmm.. thats a hard one because i love them all :lol:
but if i have to choose one i think A3000 is the winner.
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My favorite model would be the A1200 coz i upgraded it so much and it works, it's like a big lego box.
Second to that would be the A4000 due to the fact it can handle a CSPPC and has AGA ofcourse :-D
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In order:
A3000T (wins by a narrow margin)
A4000T (close second)
A3000D (just ever soooo cute!)
A2500 (talk about a tank!)
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Of all the Amigas I owned I think my favourite would be the A500, simply because it was my first ever Amiga, and it gives me the true 'old school' Amiga feeling.
Runner-up is my A4000/040. It is the dream machine I could never afford back then, but I have bought it last year for very little money. It's nicely expanded now and can do more than I ever dreamed of 10 years ago.
Third comes the A3000. It's not as fun as the A500, not as 'killer' as the A4000, but in my opinion it's the most beautiful Amiga ever made. I still regret the day I gave my A3000 away for practically nothing (I'll buy myself one again someday).
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Hummm... I don't know why you guys like the A1200 so much because I have one and I can't do anything with it.
To me, the 1200 is not worth much unless it gets towerized and that's a lot of trouble. And even then, you have to add a large bunch of add-ons before you truly have a versatile machine.
To me, the best Amiga ever is the 4000T. It comes with everything. Zorro III slots, SCSI, a really good CPU slot, AGA and a big power supply. Unfortunately, I don't have one.
So the next best thing is the A3000(T). It has pretty much everything the 4000T has except for AGA. And unlike the 4000D, the 3000D has SCSI in it.
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I can see your point about the A1200 eslapion, but it really depends what you want to do with it. If you just want a floppy games machine then a vanilla A1200 will do nicely. If you want a small WHDLoad box then a desktop A1200 with a HDD and an 030 will be great. If you want to add Internet connectivity then the PCMCIA port can be used with a cheap network card. If you want a powerhouse then you can do this too.
The A4000 is not really that different to the A1200. The only thing you get with an A4000 that you don't with an A1200 is a big case and Zorro slots.
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moto
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Of course if Doomy had been allowed back, then he would tell us the both the A1200 and the A4000 are "pieces of {bleep}", and that this has been confirmed by Dave Haynie :lol:
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moto
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My favourite is the A1XE G4. Fastest Amiga ever built, no more stacks of hardware plugged one into another, and shipped with the best release of AmigaOS ever made. Better expandability than the Micros and with the CPU on a card unlike the SEs.
Worst Amiga? Hmm, I guess it would be the A500+.
Varthall
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My favourite is the A1XE G4. Fastest Amiga ever built,
At the risk of starting a flame war, that's not an amiga in the strict sense any more than the Pegasos 2 is, nor any more than an Amithlon box, for that matter. All three run OS-friendly classic 68K software and all three can make use of machine native code for various time consuming OS calls.
Which is the fastest then?
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For me it has to be the 1200,several reason I once had a 600, Ok for games but that was it, but the 1200 I since have got a Mediator SX and that opens up my world. I have done far more with my 1200 than I ever could with a 600.
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Karlos wrote:
My favourite is the A1XE G4. Fastest Amiga ever built,
At the risk of starting a flame war, that's not an amiga in the strict sense any more than the Pegasos 2 is, nor any more than an Amithlon box, for that matter. All three run OS-friendly classic 68K software and all three can make use of machine native code for various time consuming OS calls.
Which is the fastest then?
You're right, this depends on what anyone considers as Amiga in the strict sense.
Varthall
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Mine!
It's in a home made full AT tower and it ain't gonna fall to bits (I can stand on the case!).
A3000+ is the Amiga I would have now, if only they made 'em insted of the 4000. Not saying the 4000 is bad, just things could have been soooo much better.
Had 3 1200s sold them when upgraded to the 3000.
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My favourite has to be the A3000. Definitely the Mercedes of Amigas. Sure it was cramped inside, but it was so freaking awesome. If only they had made the A3000+ as the next A4000 (if you see what I mean)
I'd love to get my hands on one.
The best would have to be the A500, the only machine to really deliver amazing performance for a low price (The A1200 was behind the curve when it hit). For many people this was *the* Amiga.
Also another vote here for the A2000 being the biggest ugliest monstrosity of the Amiga Line.
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Wow seems like hands down the A3000 is a favorite to a lot of people. :-D :-D
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Well since I have all models I have to say the 1200t is the most capable and efficient, but I use the 3000t's most. I Also really like the 3000D and if it had a place to mount a cdrom, that would probably be my favorite. It is the perfect size and shape.
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motorollin wrote:
Of course if Doomy had been allowed back, then he would tell us the both the A1200 and the A4000 are "pieces of {bleep}", and that this has been confirmed by Dave Haynie :lol:
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moto
This could also say as much about the other Amiga's as it does about the A1200 and A4000. Aren't all Amiga's except the A1000 more evolutionary than revolutionary?
But let's not hijack the thread. A1200 thumbs up :-)
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Me votes for the A1200/060/AGA i somehow like it. But they should have put Akiko and some spare room for a Slim-CDDrive into it. Yes the CDRom can be hacked into it, but i'm lazy if it comes to case modding.
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The one I wanted the most was the A1200. The one that was the most productive and most used was the A4000T.
But the one I was in awe of, was my first Amiga, an A500.
It's a bit like girlfriends, you never forget your first ;-)
The best is the A4000T.
The 'favourite' is the A1200.
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For me it would be the 1200 I guess, followed by the 4000D. I still like the (relatively) small footprint of the 4000 case compared to the average PC case.
Having said that, I am still in awe of the A1000. I remember seeing it on "Making the Most of the Micro" on BBC 2 back in the 80's and thinking "Want one! Want One!!!". I like the keyboard garage and it had add-ons like the Sidecar and second floppy drive - Two floppy drives was still a big wow to me then! It just oozed of magical delights :-) I never got one and had to make do with my C64 and 1541. Ahh, those were the days...
Retro
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I like the A1200 desktop for it's features and simple expandability.
I love the A2000 (my first machine) because the casing is well designed so that you can pack everything you need inside it (Unlike the bloody cramped A3000D).
Currently I've shelved all of my Amigas except for the A2000. This year I've been souping it up with new kickstart ROMS, an accelerator/RAM card, CV3D graphics card and OS3.9. OH, and I did the NTSC to PAL hack on the mobo last month too.
Whoever designed that A3000D case needs to be shot.
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A2000 is my favorite model for two reasons:
1. First Amiga that I owned (purchased 1 week after they were released here in Australia!)
2. Big-box form factor, built like a tank and also easily expandable. It isn't the most aesthetically pleasing Amiga to look at, but you can't have everything.
Cheers,
Silversurfer.
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My favorite is the 1200 endless fun for my hacking needs ,,,
nr2 is the A4000*T as it not only looks great but also feels the more modern , as for the 3k i think it looks like a piece of crap and it is so narrow inside only good thing it has is the scandoubbler . needs to much fixing in order to upgrade too... My best buy is still my amiga 1200 though but i give the A4000T the cool factor .
Cant say anything about the 2000 or 1000. never had those
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A500 and A1200
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My first was the A500.. so naturally I love it.
My dream was the A4000 desktop..back then it was expensive and I was just a kid and couldnt afford it. After getting a good job I now have quite a few Amigas. All but 3 are in storage.
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What? No Mil-Spec jokes?
Mine is an A1200 :)
Also own an A500 and a !!Mil-Spec!! A2000 :D
I know... I know... I couldn't help it...
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3000T of course!
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My Amiga journey began when I was first introduced to Commodore when my Dad bought us a C=64. I think I was about 8 years old. We had that thing forever!
Then in high school (grade 9 maybe) I remember seeing an article on a computer magazine showing the A1000. The article called it the "Hacker's Computer" and it looked awsome. I had to have it! Shortly after that, I bought my A1000 off of some guy who only had it for a few months. Almost new without the new price! I can't remember what I paid for it. That computer did me all the way through high school and into university. I absolutely LOVE the A1000, especially the case design and the small form factor with they keyboard garage.
During my first year of university I bought a used A2000 and expanded it with new ROMs and a GVP 030 with 8 Mb RAM and SCSI controller. It was AWSOME! Yes, it was a tank but I was able to easily stuff things in there without any problems. My friends were amazed at what it could do and a few of them went out and bought Amigas because of it!
For 5 years, starting in about '92 I believe... I ran that A2000 24x7 running a public access BBS (CNet). Ahhh, the good old days. The A2000 crashed hard in early 2000 sometime and has sat in my basement collecting dust until a few months ago. I pulled it out and with the help of AmigaPete here on this board, it was brought back to life.
So... in conclusion, in my opinion... the A1000 was the best because it was revolutionary and had a great physical design. The A2000 comes next in my books because it was the first computer to be incredibly versatile and expandable.
:-D
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@amigakid
In a very strict sense, I only had one Amiga, a Commodore A2000HD. It was my first Amiga and I had many years of fun with it. It never had an accelerator, but it had a Microway flickerFixer, some extra RAM, two SCSI hard drives, a SCSI CD-ROM drive and two floppy drives. I upgraded from OS 1.3 to OS 3.1, so that I could use Final Writer. Back in the day, I even used it for 19.2 Kbps dial-up internet access using AWeb and AmiTCP/IP.
At one time, my dream was to purchase an A3000T or A4000T.
These days, my definition of "what is an Amiga?" is a little wider.
Now I use my other machine more than the A2000HD.
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A4000T of course! You can run everything on it, and expand it like hell. It's design has also had a few improvements. For example ports, including video are in separate daughter cards wich you can replace later. The sound is also better, I can get a 14 calibration file without any beeps, but for some stupid reason the level is way too low on my system...(recently made a thread here about that).
And it also has scsi2 built in, though most accelerator cards include decent scsi anyway.
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motorollin wrote:
I can see your point about the A1200 eslapion, but it really depends what you want to do with it. If you just want a floppy games machine then a vanilla A1200 will do nicely.
I disagree, I have tried using an A1200 for floppy based classic gaming and had quite a lot of trouble, there was very little I could do with it!
I find the best Amiga for floppy gaming in terms of fun and compatibility would be the A500, or if like me you simply don't have the room for a big A500 and power supply then the A600 which is what I use if I am classic gaming.
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My favorite is the A2000 just because that's the very first computer I purchased.
I'd like to have a 1200, a 3000 and a 4000 but my Amiga hobby is on hold. I packed up my 4 Amiga 2000s and all related equipment and put it in storage about a month ago to focus my attention on other things.
It would be nice to own a piece of hardware that runs OS 4.0 but I gave up on the pipe ages ago.
Fester
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the 4000 T, because it's the best Amiga....
it has AGA, zorro3, ISA and 2x video slots! you can run a toaster and a GFX card...
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The Commodore Amiga 4000T, The escom One was very Ugly in my opinion.
The second Place goes to Amiga 1200.
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I would have to say:
A4000 for compatibility - it can run most older games through WHDLoad, pre-AGA machines can't compete because they can't run AGA software (obviously!) A1200 is a close second, but lacks the neatness of keeping most expansions inside the case without investing in a tower.
A1000 or A3000 for appearance.
A600 for neatness.
CDTV because it looks good in black, and because it was ahead of its time (I can imagine Commodore having released a DVD-based version had they survived!)
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Well,
A4000, because i still can use it for most of the things i need.
I stil use it every day for
internet browsing,chat,wordprocessing,programming etc.
afcource, he's a bit expanded
040@50mhz (warpengine) 64mb, CV64/3d,blit-fixer, ariadne,par,scsi cdrw,zip,jazz,20gb hd,sampler,midi.
and running os 3.9
next would be my a1200 (040@40mhz, 64 mb fast,cd/hd/ethernet)
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For me its the Amiga 3000D, but if i could decide on a dream model, that never existed, i d say an amiga 3000, with the following modifications:
-AGA chipset
-SIMM sockets for at least 32mb of motherboard ram
-IDE instead of SCSI (40 pins, 4 channel IDE with at least 4mb/sec transfer rate)
-A built-in scandoubler + flicker fixer for AGA, like the hack that uses 2 amber chips.
-A 68040 40mhz processor
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I'd have to say I still love my Amiga 1000, its just still a fun computer, plus the keyboard dock is just plain out kool. I actually love all the models with the exception of the A500+, just seemed like a wasted effort on Commodores part. hey wait I started this forum a bit ago, lol thought it was another one:) Oh well another post I guess :crazy: :crazy: :crazy:
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For me it's A2000B model
68000 7.14Mhz + 4Mo Fast
Super Fat Agnus + 2Mo chip
Denise ECS + Amber
Bridgeboard (Yes to run Windows 1.04 !!! :lol: )
Rapidfire scsi + HDD 1.2Go
Highway - Subway USB
Why ? because it still working fine since 19 years :-D
A3000 was fine too (great look), but weak, too weak for me!
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The best has to be the A500, it's the sweet spot for classic software and was my first Amiga and the most popular by far.
My favourite would be the A1200, like an A500 but with (a bit) more grunt. The only pity is, its potential was never really realized with software being slightly tweaked rehashes of A500 titles and many classic games being non-compatable.
WinUAE is now my favourite (unofficial) Amiga model. :-P
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I like them all :-D
The A500 was the first one I had but lacked HD interface... that made me buy an A1200.
The A1200 is Ok if you don't want to expand it much. When you start to add cards it turns into an unstable sandwitch of custom cards. You have to replace the PSU... well, with a 030, an internal 2.5HD and a PCMCIA network card it's nice, but putting it in a tower makes it butt-ugly.
The A3000... well, it's certainly not for poor people. I almost switched to an A3000 years ago when I was a student and had no money. But soon I realized that I had to invest *a lot* to put it in the same level than my previous 1240/25... I had to buy expensive ROMs3.1, expensive ZIP-ram or expensive SIMM adaptors, expensive graphic cards to be able to see more than 16colours... and if you wanted something more than a crappy 030/25 or 16Mhz like mine, you had to buy an accelerator. The A3640 was crap but the cheapest one for A4000. For A3000 you may have endless problems with it so it was better to buy an accelerator with ram sockets and maybe scsi controller, as the onboard A3000 scsi isn't marvellous. The A3000 case is beautiful, but inside it's a mess: you don't have space for 5 1/4 devices and dismounting it is a nightmare. It doesn't have IDE for cheap HDs/CDs so if you wanted a CDROM you had to buy an external case! (that's ridiculous being a big box amiga, isn't it?). The PSU is quite weak too. So I went back to the A1200. Now that I work and can buy stuff I have an expanded A3000 and it's very nice and stable, but in the long run it's much more expensive than an A4000, offers less expansion and more problems.
Later I came to the A4000. It was a dream come true: AGA, stability, expansion, a beautiful case with enough space inside for 5 1/4 devices and up to 3 HDs! Simply cool! It was a pity that it could only be expanded to 16MB. It should have come with a jumper to boot in 31Khz modes as default so if you aren't into demoscene or games you could cold boot and see early menu. Or even better, an scandoubler.
Later I got the A4000T... it's clearly the best of all amigas ever produced. The case is big and allows airflow, it includes decent scsi controller and also an IDE interface for cheap HDs/CDs. More expansion than any amiga, an standard motherboard form factor for the first time in the amiga history (It's an standard AT board). Simply great.
The worst model would probably be an unexpanded A500+. It has compatibility problems with games but no HD interface or pcmcia like A600. But I like all the amigas produced. They are all special.
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I'd have to say the A4000 is my fav...
After a while out of the amiga scene I got a broken A4000 off ebay and spent time and effort fixing it up and then expanded it with many things... It was my first real amiga expansion project...
Runner up is the CDTV as it's a challenge to upgrade and get stuff working... I'm currently building a new expansion for it, which will hopefully work well :)
After that is the A500+... Mainly due to fond memories.. My 1st amiga was a 500+ :)
The everything else an equal(ish) 4th :) Although I do seem to prefer big-box amigas more than wedge ones for some reason...
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Well ... When I learned about Amiga, all my friends hat an A500 ... So that's the Real Amiga for me ... *G* ... But I've always dreamt of an A1200... No I got it ... Now I dream of an Ferrari ! ... Maybe in 10 years then ? :-O
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I see that most of us prefer the A3000 second the 1200
The A3000 computer was the most expensive of all amiga models at about 3500-4000 usd....when just out
ppl that purchase the A3000 at that elevated price were rich or were so stupids...
the only advantage of that ugly and outpriced computer is the built-in scandoubler/flickerfixer...even the A3000 looks like an ancient yellowed pc
I haven't any amiga at the moment ...I sold all...only winuae...but I maybe I will purchase again a nice A1200..is the best amiga