A1200 could have more expansion slots, it could have included more stuff in and on it...
What is tried to be meant in the lines above had already been made by A4000. It has a 030 and EDO ram slots to be expanded.
But A1200 was not the way it was produced. It's something cheaper than A4000 and has much more to offer than cd32.
While judging please consider the dates and policies of the companies.
It might have happened or did not..maybe it is nature..you rise and fall..maybe it is fate..Amiga turned out to be concept that even the makers did not think of..they were not able to handle the potential of that creature whereas the WinPC stuff only promised. The users were not ready maybe...nobody could get what cd32 invention was just like they did not get how a great machine should be.
Seeing the facts beyond the timeline...that's all amiga's fault. And I feel lucky for the minority who has ever witnessed those days in which there were no rush for idiot game compatible video cards.
mdwh2 wrote:
Regarding the A1200, I think it's a shame they didn't consider making the box a little bigger (preferably with a separate keyboard, and a small main box like some old Macs). That way you could have internal 3.5" IDE hard drives and a CD ROM, along with onboard SIMMs at a far cheaper price than it cost to add to the A1200. Given that simply adding RAM doubled the speed of the A1200, it's a shame that this wasn't more easily an option.
The PC had started to overtake the Amiga as a games machine (ironic that being a games machine was always supposed to be a bad thing for the Amiga!), but I found Windows 3.1 incredibly sluggish on 4MB 486s, even though I was only used to a bare A1200 at the time. It wasn't until RAM dropped in price that PCs started to become viable for anything other than games IMO (and Windows 95 took even more than 3.1, so I'd be looking at 32MB minimum - which IIRC cost about £800 in 1995!)
