Apart from a cpu and fastmem upgrade the most significant thing you can do is get a graphics card, unless you want to do alot of video resolution stuff. To be honest I had an A1200 and tried the upgrade path, but found it too costly and complicated, so I got an a4000, mainly because AGA is too slow for high res, high colour apps. BUT you may only want to run games, basic word processing and paint (eg Dpaint, brilliance,PPaint, Scala) in video resolutions in which case the A1200 is fine. As a general rule computer hardware starts too feel poor when you run software that was not meant to run on it
