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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: curtis on February 13, 2015, 04:08:11 PM
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Okay, I am SEVERELY downsizing and I find I need to reduce my Amiga count to 1.
I have an A500 with a GVP sidecar, fully loaded with RAM, Minimegi chip RAM expansion, flickerfixer, nice size hard drive, and the 286 card.
I also have an A2000 similarly configured with a 386 bridgeboard.
I really don't have the room for both, but can't decide which to keep and which to find a new home for.
I realize the 500 is a much smaller footprint, but the 2000 has the detachable keyboard.
Both have similar spots in my heart.
I would appreciate comments from the community.
Also, whichever I decide to part with I will offer first dibs here.
Curtis
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With all of it's room for expansions, I would chose the 2000. Maybe even save up for one of those new Phoenix accelerators when ready and really make it fly!
Chris
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IMHO the A2000 has a smaller footprint. My A500 sitting here takes up 24"x13" of desk space, and that's not including the external CD drive, the bulky PSU brick, all the cables hanging off the back everywhere, etc. Plus with the A2000 you can set the monitor on top, and even stack the keyboard on top when you're not using it. Much smaller! :)
Edit: A2000 uses 18"x16" of desk space. Suppose you could always flip it on it's side and "make a tower out of it" to use less space, haha. ;)
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Keep them both. The 500 stored takes up very little space. You will regret losing either. Trust me.
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Keep the 2000, sell the 500 upgrades but keep the system itself (+psu and mouse). Take the money you get for the upgrades and buy some more nice upgrades for the 2000 :)
Store the 500 (not in the garage or unfinished humid basement).
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I personally have both as well, but I am partial to the A500 even though the A2000 is far more expendable. When I think Amiga, I think A500/1200, the big box Amigas look too much like a PC.
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Im leaning towards the A2000 simply because of the expandability and because of the "all in one package" look, everything can be placed inside the case.
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The A2000 can hold multiple HDD's, a CDROM, Ethernet card, USB card, accelerator, and an RTG card, and power them all. You can have it set up in many different ways.
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I would agree with keep them both.
But if you really can't, then sell the A500, and keep the A2000.
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a2000 for sure.
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In terms of future upgrades I'd say they're about equal since the Phoenix/Vampire 500/Apollo68k/whatever we're calling it should work in either. A big thing in favor of the A2000 is the ability to easily install a RTG card. Then again the Vampire 500 should have RTG eventually, maybe not at release but that's the plan. With the A2000 you have all of the classic CPU slot upgrades available, though only a couple with a decent HDD controller giving you SCSI-II Fast. So if you believe that the Vampire 500 will eventually be for sale for a price you can live with it's back to being a toss up. I think the natural progression is you only have two amigas the one that gets the 060 first becomes the only Amiga you want to use, barring having a classic ECS only games machine or something. That is, unless you have a dozen of upgraded Amigas of every type and another half dozen in spare parts. So in conclusion, I have no good advice.
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keep them both. The 500 stored takes up very little space. You will regret losing either. Trust me.
+1 ;)