Worth getting an Amiga 600?

[Jiffy]

I think it's too early to say whether the A600 will get thrown back onto the streets again.

I don't expect it to be thrown back in the streets again. The last couple of years, the A600 finally reached maturity and I expect it is here to stay.

The small advantages it had from the beginning (small footprint, internal IDE, PCMCIA) grew bigger when time passed by and with several new hardware add ons (such as the Indivision ECS, A604, ACA620/630, Vampire 600), it became a very nice Amiga which could be easily expanded.

Currently, it's my favorite old school computer, with my A1200/2000/3000 sitting in a cupboard.

[Jiffy]

Can you explain why the A600's IDE and PCMCIA bus is incompatible?
It's working for me without any problems.

Same here. What's incompatible with the A600's IDE and PCMCIA bus? I know the PCMCIA on the A600 predates the official specifications of the standard, but in practice, it works reliably with memorycards, networkcards, SCSI-controllers and mass storage devices. What more could you want from a 25 year old homecomputer?

Even 'slow' is relative. Yes, there are faster options to connect hardware to an Amiga, especially if you have a big box Amiga, but it's very nice to have both PCMCIA (which I use with a 3C589-card) and internal IDE (which I use with a 4 GB DOM flash drive) on board.

Plenty fast as far as you can call a homecomputer from the early 90-ies 'fast'. It's compact and it has plenty 'oomph' with my ACA630 and Indivision ECS on board.

I agree the A1200 has more options when it comes to turboboards and is an overall more powerful machine, but the A600 has become a very nice Amiga with plenty of expansion options.

When it just came out, there was no good reason for its existence, but in recent years it has gained a proud place among the other Amigamodels.