Which is the best Amiga and why?

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alexh wrote:

sim085 wrote:

Said that it seems that the A500+ could be upgraded to actually match the A1200. Although I do not think that the A500+ could take an AGA card!

No AGA. No PCMCIA. All upgrades cost 2x-3x more.

An prototype AGA expansion (AGA Go! kit; DCE?) for OCS Amigas had been presented/demoed at one of the Amiga trade fairs in Cologne/Germany in the early ninetees.
But it never went into production, IIRC.

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A4000_Mad wrote:

Sim085 wrote:

As much as I know the A1200 is not a PPC

The A1200 can have a Blizzard PPC card fitted and the A3000 & A4000 can have a Cyberstorm PPC card fitted. The cards will cost you an arm and a leg now, but you would have a machine of up to a whopping 240Mhz and be able to run AmigaOS 4.0 Classic :-)
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Well, I'm not aware of the current second hand prices, but back in November 1997 - the first day ever the Phase5 CyberstormPPC cards were available at the Amiga trade fair here in Cologne - I payed 2400 DM (= 1200 €) for it with only 64 mB of RAM.
The CybervisionPPC (8 mB) was around 570 DM (= 285 €).

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redfox wrote:
@Sim085

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Not sure if there are add-on parts for USB and network connections.  
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AFAIK you can get an clockport (like the A1200 has) interface for the A500 ( A500 clockport interface ), to which you can connect either an ZorroII Highway card or clockport Subway card from E3B.
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I forgot to mention that a minimum requirement for the "Subway" is a 68030 CPU @ 25 mHz. So if you want to have USB in an A500, you gotta get hold of an A500-accelerator with at least an 68030 @ 25 mHz.

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I could very well imagine that there are USB-NICs available that basically should enable your A500 for broadband access
(if browsing the web is much fun with those specs remains to be seen - in case you try it your report would be very welcome here, I think).

As driver serves the Anaiis USB stack for limited Amigas:
anaiis.readme

EDIT:
There's a thread on this topic at amigaworld.net