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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: freqmax on May 13, 2013, 11:49:22 PM
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Which Amiga chassi do you find most attractive?
Nowadays it's possible to put high end electronics in low end chassi or low end electronics in high end chassi. And some are not originals at all ;)
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I always loved the A1200...
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A3000D without a doubt. A1200 is my second favourite.
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CDTV,A600,A1200 and A3000D.
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A3000, even though I never owned one. Followed by A500 & A1200. :)
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CDTV,A600,A1200 and A3000D.
Oh yes, the CDTV was a masterpiece! :)
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I love my black Minimig case made by Loriano if that counts as an Amiga chassis. I like the A1200 but I don't think I'd want to go back to using one.
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When the A3000T came out I loved it. I still like it the most for the retro of the Amiga chassis, but I still think the last A4000T model with the glass front looks the best. I owned an A3000T once but the mobo was broken and I could never get it to work so I sold it. I have several A1200s and even a towerized PPC A1200. I've owned A500s and an A3000D as well and I also have an A4000D.
The A3000T and A4000T were always the most sexy to me.
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I like the power tower 4000D conversion box.
Looks weren't the greatest , but the case gave me room and cooling!
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A1000 without doubt. (And I have 4000D, 3000D, 2000, and have used 500s and 1200s.)
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3000T nothing else is even close...
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The A1000 is my all time favorite plus I just love the keyboard. Next would be the A4000D a purposeful design and a rock solid peroformer(at least mine are). I was never really a fan of the A3000, just sayin. I know there are some that think the A3000 was/is the best Amiga built.
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Not a fan of the A3000 computer or the A3000 chassi?
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Not to nitpick, but just so we're all talking the same language here:
...the word "chassis" has an "s" on the end and actually means the internal skeleton of a machine, not the case.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chassis
So is the question about the better internals, or the better case?
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Hands down for me A1200 or maybe A600. Do you know how many people are amazed the whole computer "is in the keyboard" lol
A3000T looks like a pc server case.
a4000T is pretty damn sweet, that smoked black plastic front is serious biz!
A4000D looks like a pc clone
A3000D looks like a pc clone and is a NIGHTMARE to upgrade or work on
A2000 makes a good boat anchor!
A500 is always cool :)
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As far as looks only 1000 hands down, then 3000d, but 2000 looks tougher than 3000 IMO (like it could hold a boatload of bad a$$ cards and the 300 can only hold those wimpy low profile stuff. Kinda like pc vs Ibm PC Jr.)
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A zero fell off my 3000, anyone want to buy an uber rare A300 desktop ? It's half as powerful as a 600.
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Not to nitpick, but just so we're all talking the same language here:
...the word "chassis" has an "s" on the end and actually means the internal skeleton of a machine, not the case.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chassis
So is the question about the better internals, or the better case?
Either way my response is the same..hehe.. I agree the A4000T's are pretty
sweet. Best of the breed as far as I'm concerned. I like the 3 I have ;-)..
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A3000/A3000T, hands down. Rest look generic to me. The A1000 was a great design for its day, but the A3000D was the first Amiga with that real professional office type look to me.
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I always drooled over the A4000 tower. I've never owned one, but I still hope I will someday. I love the wedge cases (always had a500 or a1200) but the 4000t just screamed power to me.
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The 1200 for sleek design (minus the awful keyboard), and the 2000 for rugged design and easiest access to the internals and the insane amount of peripherals you could get for it.
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No votes yet for the Walker? Shocking! ;)
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A1000...
Followed by the 3000.
Not a fan of towers or bigger cases...
After that, probably the 1200.
desiv
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Hands down for me A1200 or maybe A600. Do you know how many people are amazed the whole computer "is in the keyboard" lol
A3000T looks like a pc server case.
a4000T is pretty damn sweet, that smoked black plastic front is serious biz!
A4000D looks like a pc clone
A3000D looks like a pc clone and is a NIGHTMARE to upgrade or work on
A2000 makes a good boat anchor!
A500 is always cool :)
A4000t looks to much like an old supermicrro tower for me. a500 is to c128 as windows ME is to 98.
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3000D followed by the A1200.
Why isn't this a poll?
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A4000D. Plain on the outside but an ergonomic and efficient design that doesn't take up a lot of space and has enough room for expansion--who needs two internal floppies in modern times but a 5.25" CD drive bay and a bay that could be used for a card reader or zip drive are useful. The A4000T is a monster in comparison and is really just a nice AT tower chassis that's almost generic. It's the insides that make the A4000T great.
I can't stand wedgies but that's just my personal taste. Of the wedgies, the A1200 is the most atractive.
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Which Amiga chassi do you find most attractive?
Nowadays it's possible to put high end electronics in low end chassi or low end electronics in high end chassi. And some are not originals at all ;)
the Amiga Walker prototype!
seriously, the A1200 and CDTV
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You gotta love the A1000. That was such a departure from what we had at the time. A really nice design.
I have to agree that the towers lose some appeal because of PC's, but the 3000T is just such a beast that it adds a lot of character.
My all time favorite is the 3000D though.
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As far as looks only 1000 hands down, then 3000d, but 2000 looks tougher than 3000 IMO (like it could hold a boatload of bad a$$ cards and the 300 can only hold those wimpy low profile stuff. Kinda like pc vs Ibm PC Jr.)
The 3000D holds full size cards. They are sideways, just like the 4000D.
You can even fit a big old Toaster and Flyer in there.
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a3000d without a doubt. A1200 is my second favourite.
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a3000 + cd32!
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Personally my favorite from all of them..is the Amiga 500 case. If there is way I can put the Amiga 1200 mother + Apollo + HD + USB Sub + Amiga 1200 Keyboard + Disk drive into the A500 case I would do it in a heart beat.
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I voted for A3000 (desktop) case. its a bit similar to 'Pizza box form factor' which I like very much. also A3000 are not very common here.
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Seems the popular ones are:
A1000
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/AmigaA1000.jpg/250px-AmigaA1000.jpg)
A1200
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Amiga_1200_Nahaufnahme.jpg/250px-Amiga_1200_Nahaufnahme.jpg)
A3000
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Amiga_3000_Front_with_Transparent_BG.png/250px-Amiga_3000_Front_with_Transparent_BG.png)
A3000T
(http://bboah.amiga-resistance.info/display_photos/a3000t_1_sm.jpg)
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I do like the look of the A1000 case but I don't like the keyboard layout. I had mentally designed an A600 case in similar style (including keyboard slot underneath, which is neat). The A3000 bezel is quite neat too and I also like the black perspex on the A4000T so maybe that would feature, too. Maybe I will build it one day. But probably not, knowing me.
Otherwise the A1200 is the best looking wedge Amiga.
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Personally my favorite from all of them..is the Amiga 500 case. If there is way I can put the Amiga 1200 mother + Apollo + HD + USB Sub + Amiga 1200 Keyboard + Disk drive into the A500 case I would do it in a heart beat.
This guy managed to get an A1200 motherboard in an A600 case so anything is possible!
http://www.amibay.com/showthread.php?t=570
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Poor A600 not even mentioned.. IT is one nice case if you consider the size. Notice no love for the A2000. Perhaps it would win the most practical Amiga chassi if there was such a vote!
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A600 all the way baby. It's unfair it's not on the list...
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A600 is a nice design, but one time I tried to play Damocles on one. FAIL.
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The Amiga 3000 is a basic slimline PC case. Perhaps people like in so much is because it was full 32-bit and had an inbuilt flicker fixer, plus the SCSI.
I like all of them in one way or another. The compact A600 would be my fav. Especially if it had the power of the A1200 in it.
Back in the day, it was a nuisance not to have an external keyboard. Plus there was all that power and upgrade capabilities in the towers.
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A600 is the most attractive, but it's not the most practical.
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Pictures of the wedge things ;)
A500
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/A500.jpg/290px-A500.jpg)
A600
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Amiga_600.jpg/290px-Amiga_600.jpg)
A1200
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Amiga_1200_Nahaufnahme.jpg/290px-Amiga_1200_Nahaufnahme.jpg)
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It's a shame they didn't design A1200 motherboard to fit in A600 case, the only thing that stops it fitting is the joystick port, and the mouse port was already on a detachable cable, would have been so easy to put both on detachable cables and put the screw holes in the same places. Oh well.
Also for some reason there is a slight difference in the keyboard ribbon.
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All of the desktop case Amigas looked a bit like PCs... difficult not to, really, since all PCs were in that format at the time. And then towers. How to make a desktop or tower case not look like a PC? You can only make a nice one or an ugly one. PCs never came in wedge cases.
A2000 was quite an ugly one though, a big beige block of a thing.
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A2000 was quite an ugly one though, a big beige block of a thing.
All your chassis is futile it will be monolithed-2000 ;)
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All your chassis is futile it will be monolithed-2000 ;)
Franko is more popular than the A2000s looks.
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How does the Franko chassi look like ..?
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Franko is more popular than the A2000s looks.
Franko is also an Amiga, but the A600 and A3000T aren't.
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Yes what even is a Franko, I never heard of it
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Top listing per 16:24:
42.50% (17) A3000 - [size=1]Clark Kent, danwood, djos, Heiroglyph, kolla, Marmes, marvinpa, mbrantley, Merc, mfilos, mingle, Mrs Beanbag, nicholas, orange, Pentad, TheMagicM, VingtTrois[/size]
27.50% (11) A1000 - [size=1]Amiga_CDTV, Coolhand, kolla, Marmes, MarxCarl, Megamig, Mrs Beanbag, NorthWay, royalcrown, SysAdmin, TNovosel[/size]
22.50% (9) A1200 - [size=1]Djole, djos, mdivancic, Megamig, Mrs Beanbag, nickoteen, rvo_nl, Technoweenie, Xanxi[/size]
12.50% (5) A500 - [size=1]AmigaClassicRule, djos, itix, nickoteen, nOw2[/size]
07.50% (3) Franko - [size=1]gertsy, kolla, polyp2000[/size]
07.50% (3) A4000T - [size=1]Amiga_CDTV, cobale, direktorn[/size]
05.00% (2) CDTV - [size=1]Megamig, SysAdmin[/size]
05.00% (2) CD32 - [size=1]kolla, VingtTrois[/size]
02.50% (1) A4000D - [size=1]OlafS3[/size]
02.50% (1) A2000 - [size=1]toRus[/size]
A3000 and A1000 seems to be the thing ;)
(thoe A600 is missing from the poll)
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I was just commenting about the aesthetics only, it LOOKS like the 3000d is half height cards, it looks like the pc jr version. Personally I think the 3000 is a bad ace machine !
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@ MrsBeanbag...true it looks ugly compared to the 3000 and 1000, but it looks tougher IMO.
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A2000 does look tough... it wouldn't look out of place in an army base
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A2000 does look tough... it wouldn't look out of place in an army base
It wouldn't look out of place in Scotland either (tough folks) ...hehe
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It's a tough choice between a 1000 and 3000D for me. I like the 1000's size and layout, and the keyboard garage is uber cool. But compared to the 3000D it can be a tad cheap and plain looking, in particular how the memory card slot can get a bit out of alignment when beat up.
I think on looks alone I'd have to vote for the 3000D. It's a nice size and the front grill design make it look more high end somehow.
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Yeah, I was going strictly on looks too.
For functionality give me a 4000T. It's the newest, biggest machine, so why not?
But the 3000D is tough to beat on looks alone and it's built like a tank. It's probably my second favorite for functionality too, even with only ECS. Drop in an RTG card and fast CPU and it's one hell of a machine until it overheats ;)
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It's all about shallow looks ;)
As these days you can put a giraf into a tiger that sounds like a frog :D
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I like the A600 - it's simply cute. A3000 was my most dreamed of machine, hence I still like it.
CDTV was also cool, looked like hifi device of that time (a look i still like today). I disliked on CDTV that it used CD caddies.
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I did not take aesthetics into account and voted for the A2000.
It simply easier to take apart, modify, and put back together.
Beauty in simplicity.
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A600.
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Which Amiga chassi do you find most attractive?
Nowadays it's possible to put high end electronics in low end chassi or low end electronics in high end chassi. And some are not originals at all ;)
You forgot the A3000T vs the A3000D. I prefere the T to the D.
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I've only ever seen an A1200, A600 and A500/+ in the flesh... so I had to vote A1200 as there's no option to vote A600. I'm suprised to see the A3000 way ahead. Are they really that sexy?
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Hands down for me A1200 or maybe A600. Do you know how many people are amazed the whole computer "is in the keyboard" lol
A3000T looks like a pc server case.
a4000T is pretty damn sweet, that smoked black plastic front is serious biz!
A4000D looks like a pc clone
A3000D looks like a pc clone and is a NIGHTMARE to upgrade or work on
A2000 makes a good boat anchor!
A500 is always cool :)
^^^ this
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I wish you would have added the A600.
I know it's considered by many to be the ugly stepbrother, but if you ever owned one, it was just awesome feeling. If it was AGA, I would have owned a stack of them and put them around the house.
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On the A600 Commodore management massacred the arrow + numeric pad and missed AGA. But points for the most compact Amiga chassi ever.
However this is more about what looks good, say A4000 motherboard in A600 chassi etc when the choice is free.
Perhaps one should ask how should a chassi look like to look really Amigish? ;)
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So many were saying that the Towers and big box Amigas all looked like PCs and well, it was hard not to. I have to add to that discussion by saying the Atari Mega STe and TT030 really didn't look like PCs and had nicely designed cases, but they were pretty much crap for expansion. In fact the only real expansion bus they had was the VME which was hard to find and extremely expensive even when they were being produced. Now it's downright impossible to find the VME video cards for them.
There weren't much in the way for accelerators either, mainly 'cause the older versions of TOS were crap and really not meant to handle much more than a 68000 until the TT030.
But this is a bit off topic of course, I voted that the A4000T was the best, due to it looking intimidating and being the most expandable. I love my A4000D, but taking it fully apart is a pain the butt, and I really wish there wasn't so much play in the front. One of these days I want to get a 3D printer and print up new plastic bits for it.. :D
slaapliedje
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And the Agami goes to:
Best Wedge: A1200, the ratios are just right.
Best Desktop: A2000, it screams "Bring it".
Best Alternative: CDTV, black, Hi-Fi like, a computer in the living-room, whaaa?
A3000 is sexy, but it feels just like a sexified IBM PS/2.
A4000: Nice, not thrilling but nice. Desktop was too small, Tower was too tall.
CD32: The cheapest cheap that ever cheaped. Right size though.
A500: Don't go outside with it on a windy day.
A1000: Gallant effort but not quite the winner. Keyboard cubby? Pointless gimmick.
Honorable Mentions:
Amiga Walker (Escom): Quirky but grows on you.
Amiga MCC (Gateway): Smooth lines, clearly aimed at the average consumer.
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I've always loved the Enlight AT case used for the A4000T.
(http://i42.tinypic.com/kb2hyg.jpg)
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A1200 for me with the A500 and A1000.
The A2000 is a beast (will probably turn my knackered one into an AROS machine)
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Perhaps something like Akikos box with a large black plastic and a C= logo shaped LED behind it would be neat? or perhaps a red checker boing-ball ;)
The sides could be slightly vobbly to conduct more heat and look neat at the same time with the C= style color white cream.
Guess there's nothing really commodorish, except:
* The colour scheme with grey keys and white cream chassi
* The logo C=
* Bouncing Boing-balls with checker pattern
* Plastic vents that usually went above the keyboard on wedge models
* Rounded edges
Ofcourse it says "boing-bom-chack" in Kraftwerk style instead of beep :D
Someone up for something raytraced? ;)
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The 3000 without a doubt. Nothing else looks like it, even the leds they used looked good.
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A1000 without doubt. (And I have 4000D, 3000D, 2000, and have used 500s and 1200s.)
@NorthWay,
You have no idea what you are talking about the A1000 was not only the best looking but it had that cool keyboard dock underneath it.
and I have,
A4000D, A3000D, A2000, A1200, A500, A1000, and the CD-32, so pfffft I beat you by one Amiga computer. (Oh if you count Amiga Forever, I have that on my PC)
Just Joking, GOOD CHOICE by you.
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sorry but whats a franko?
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The 1000 and 3000. All others don't really rate a spot in a poll about looks.
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I've always loved the Enlight AT case used for the A4000T.
(http://i42.tinypic.com/kb2hyg.jpg)
now thats sexy a4000
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Too make it sexy there has to be a flatscreen behind the smoked glas that shows the checker boing balls bouncing around ;)
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THE Amiga was and still is the classiest computer case! Of course I'm referring to the almighty Amiga 1000 :-)
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When you said "THE Amiga" I thought you meant Lorraine with it's 7400 chips laid out on multiple circuitboards .. ;)
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The Amiga 1000 is indisputably the most attractive design, with second place being far behind.
Really, do you think anything can beat that keyboard garage?