What was the Best and "not so good" Amiga Models?

[CU_AMiGA]

My personal favourite Amiga Model was the 1000. Simply because it was the first machine that brought the computer world to attention, and started all the later Amiga models. And, also it was well ahead of its time and miles better than the PC and MAC, with its graphics and Music capabilities. It will go down in history as a great computer system and a brilliant contirbuter to technology.

As for the worst model (dare i say it!). That would have to go to the 500+. What a waste of time (and money) that was, and all for what? 6 months! I cant see any point in it being released, it wasn't too much powerful than the original 500 and with the 600 and more powerful 1200/4000  just around the corner it had seemed pointless!

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TheMagicM wrote:
to say one model was the "worst" would be too rough.  They were all good.  I like the 3000 and its sexy case.

Okay then, it shall now be titled: What was the Best and "not so good" Amiga Models! :-) Hows that?

[CU_AMiGA]

I personally, had a soft spot for the 600. It had its good and bad points. The good obviously being a compact Amiga, and closest in being a laptop. The bad point being (again obviously) that it wasn't too powerful, and at a time in 1992 when the 1200 and 4000 was launched.

I love to see the sight of Amiga 600 running a game like Gloom/Doom or similar graphical standard. How far can up upgrade these babies?! :-)

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-D- wrote:
Technically the 3000+ was the best.

What's the plus for? I know on the A500 the plus meant the addition of ECS and a fatter Agnus, but the A3000 had these as standard, didn't they? Was this the A3000 AGA upgrade I've heard about?

Wasn't the 3000+ meant to be an Amiga 3000 with an AGA chipset? That would be awesome! :-) Do any of them actually exist?

Technically the 4000/T, 3000/T and 1200T were the better ones. The 4000 and 3000 being more powerful and the 1200 being an upgraders dream and cheap and popular. But i plucked for the 1000 as the best Amiga model cos it was the first that started it and no-one had ever seen anything like it. No other Amiga models would have been possible without this machine.

Thanks for the reply people! Keep 'em coming! :-)

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DoomMaster wrote:
To xeron:

The A500 is not a 'low quality' computer. It is very well manufactured, and likely to last you a long time.

Tell that to the cheap plastic case and the stripped out screw holes in the plastic stand-offs.  Also, tell that to the low quality Amiga 500 keyboard.  Just compare an Amiga 2000 keyboard to an Amiga 500 keyboard, you will readily see the difference in quality.  The Amiga 2000 keyboard has Cherry switches from Italy and the characters are printed on top of the keys.  The Amiga 500 keyboard has low quality Chicklet (rubber) key switches and the characters on top of the keys are decals.     :-o

DoomMaster, tip:

Maybe if you stopped using Amiga 500, 600 and 1200 as cricket or tennis bats once in a while, then maybe they'll last a little longer! The 2000 being too heavy to lift!  have owned all three of them and they have lasted me a long time 500,600 about 8 years (recently broke down). And the 3 1200's that i own are still going strong!  :-D

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unclewilli-amigalover wrote:
thanks odin your right! i just needed the narrator device.
later i will make a few prank phone calls to brothers and
wife family, he! he! he! thanks again...

LOL Brillaint! I'll try that as well! :lol:

[CU_AMiGA]

Oh! What about that Walker thingy? What was all that about? What happened to it? I remember looking at it in a magazine a few years ago (maybe Amiga Format) and they were crowing on about it and how it looks! :-)