Common amiga knowledge that's wrong

[Kronos]

Why it's wrong: Sure, the 68000 with 1 meg of RAM wasn't cutting it in 94 anymore. But then, we had 68060 processor cards, RTG video cards, loads of RAM etc available.
It's a travesty that virtual no games ever took advantage of this equipment but that's a shortfall of the developers, not the machine itself.

Actually even more wrong ....

The CS-MK1-manual (1st print) is from April 95, even if some units gone on sale in 94 they certainly weren't "available" in the common. If your in for a shocker, someone might even pull out an invoice from that time. I remember paying 1800DM for my Blizz2060 (must have been 96) shortly after they came out. Inflation corrected that would have been well over 1000Euro.

Sure GFX-Cards did exist, in the form of a Picasso2 at 800DM hardly a gamers-card today, and back than there was no CGX or P96, all you had was costom WB-emu and/or EGS. Pretty much useless for anything but specialized productivity SW.

Btw. RAM was really expensive back in those days, I only bought 8MB for that 2060 card and I do remember it being even worse before.

So to get a "high-end" Amiga in lets say 1996 (since 94 is to unrealistic for such specs) consisting of:
68060 with 32MB or more
A4000(T) (no point in playing games over Z2)
CV-64 (guess that should be the best non-3D card of that time)

You would easily need over 6000DM (3000Euro), to get what ?

A CPU/mobo comparable to a P90 ?
A GFX-card featuring a chip otherwise fond in bargain-bin VLB-cards ?

Or in short a 2000DM (1000Euro) PC ....

[Kronos]

but let's say you bought a 500 and a PC in 88 or 89. By 96, how many times would you have replaced your PC by then?

Hmmm lets see:

Bought an A500 in 90, replaced with an A1200 in late 92, replaced that with an A2000+A2630 in 94, upgraded that to 060 in 96, bought a GFX-card later in 96. Sums up to about 6000DM including 2 monitor (1084 and 2024).

Bought an 10Mhz-AT 91, replaced it with an 40MHz-386DX sometime in 94 bought an Pentium100 which was sold after a few weeks to pay for the Picasso2.

Money spend ? I'd say 3000DM max

[Kronos]

WTF ??

Audio-CD-players were cheap, portables not (but you wouldn't need them for an PC)

CDTV was a bit overpriced, CD32 (released in 93) were cheap.
SCSI was never cheap.
CD-ROMs with bastardized IDE interface (like the early Mitsumis) were affordable, ordering and building them into an A1200CD in masses would have driven the prices down.

A naked A1200 (without HD) was 800DM, adding a CD as standard would still have kept the price below 1000DM, way lower than the A500 when it was introduced (1400DM afaik).