The Best Amiga Computer Is An A3000?

[alexh]

Dont believe the hype. (most being re-iterated in this thread)

The A4000 is "the best" Amiga ever made to date.

It is everything the A3000 is, and it has AGA.

How can the A3000(T) be "the best" Amiga when it doesnt run (and can never be made to run) a proportion of Amiga software?

"But the A3000(T) has a better looking, higher quality case!"

So what? I dont know about you, but I tend to look at the screen when I am using my Amiga.

"But the A3000(T) has a built in scandoubler!"[/b]

So what? You can buy one for the A4000(T), I'd like to see you buy AGA support for the A3000(T). (i.e. you cant)

"But the A3000(T) has SCSI!"[/b]

It's slow SCSI-1 and the A4000T has fast SCSI-II! Plus the A4000(T) has IDE for cheap drives. If you want SCSI-1 on your A4000D you can get a comparable Zorro-II SCSI card very cheap.

Also A3000(T) motherboards have to have INT2 mods done before you can use accelerators with SCSI controllers!

"But the A3000(T) has faster motherboard RAM!"

Yeah, stoopid, expensive, hard to find ZIP RAM! A4000(T) has nice, cheap, easy to find 72-pin SIMMS. Any speed differences is negated to zero when you get an accelerator (with RAM).

A4000T has a second video slot meaning you can use a video toaster AND an RTG card.

[alexh]

-D- wrote:
+1 for the A3000+.

Unreleased prototypes dont count! The lines between truth and myth blur too much.

Zac67 wrote:
Imho the best machine is an A3000+ (A3k with AGA+DSP, could use more slots though) or an A4000T (the only thing it misses is a flicker fixer).

Did you know the A3000+ didn't have a scandoubler either?

[alexh]

McVenco wrote:
Who needs a 262,144 color Workbench when you're coding or writing some documents?

Depends if you are coding for AGA ;-)

Like I said: you don't buy an A3000 or A4000 to play games, so please don't mention AGA.

Maybe not back then, but now, yes you do. I did. The majority of A4k users today did. We bought our A4k's for demos, games and Zorro III RTG workbench.

The only useful program that I know that uses AGA is DPaint.

The days of any Amiga program being "useful" are over. It is now purely a machine for nostalgia and fun.

[alexh]

McVenco wrote:
throw away all A1000s and A600s since there's almost NO way to have use for these machines then.

Absolutely agree. Why anyone would want anything other than an A1200, A4000 or CD32 is beyond me.

[alexh]

Acill wrote:
[A4000 series]resulted in a even poorer model in the end. How many have seen the cost reduced version of the A4000?

I have an A4000D-CR and an A4000D RevB and I can say that the A4000D-CR is better. It has an 030 CPU and FPU on the motherboard, so if your accelerator ever blows up you've automatically got a spare. Standard PC CR2032 battery which very rarely leak. Improved PSU.

Acill wrote:
Oh and for those saying the A3000 cant take a mediator? I think you better look again, mine has one in it

Wow, you have an A3000D in an original desktop case with a mediator, you must have the only one!! ;-)