Top 3 worst ideas in Amiga history?

[cecilia]

The A2000: overpriced and underpowered. The flagship Amiga of its time should and could have been so much better.

I'll think of 2 more later

excuse me???

I'll have to disagree there.

in 1989 I got my A2000 because I wanted a more expandable amiga and the 500 wasn't it for me.

this purchase was THE most important of my entire career as it was really the turning point for me (even if I didn't realize it at the time).
I was able to eventually add HD's, memory, acceleration, DCTV, external storage, CD drive and god knows what else.

I learned computer graphics and animation from this computer and this propelled me to work on Emmy award winning projects..

mistake?

not for me

[cecilia]

Thought of another one: the rollout price of a 256kb A1000. IMO, was too expensive and cost prohibitive for many of its prospective users - which were primarily loyal Commodore users of course. This is a tough thing to decide though - price it too low and people and professionals might not have given it a second look. Price it too high and people might rather go for an old standby such as Apple or IBM. Guess in all fairness, it was priced pretty well - but compared to the ST, no so much. I believe a 512kb system should have rolled out at around $1k, maybe $1.3k tops with some more software and a monitor. Better or more RAM solutions that were cheaper should have been made more available too, instead of rare or years later that were STILL too expensive for what they were.

yes, price is a tricky thing but my experience is that once I saw the potential of Amiga (I recall going to an amiga convention in New York in the late 80's) - I saw LIVE, and my friend's LightBox (a pageflipping program later incorporated into DeluxePaint), and the Summagraphics tablet, the music programs, etc, etc....i just KNEW I HAD to have this computer.

this was the first computer I saw that I knew could be used by artists. at the time the Apple seems way to crude to me. just not good enough.

so I saved my money and bought my Amiga2000. It wasn't cheap but worth every penny.