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.
