So you were put in charge of making the 060 based amiga

[dougal]

A5000:

8Mb Chip ram + 32Mb Fast ram (upgradable to 256mb with pc style simms)
Fast buffered IDE built in + SCSI II
Onboard LAN network card
Onboard RTG graphics (with scandoubled & flickerfixed VGA out)
1.76Mb Floppy drive
PS/2 Keyboard & Mouse ports
PCI Slots

A1600:

8Mb Chip ram + slots on-board for pc style simms up to 256Mb
Fast buffered IDE onboard
Onboard LAN network card
RTG graphics card slot
Onboard scandoubler/Flickerfixer
Case design for cd-rom

[dougal]

Back in 1995/1996 Commodore should have for their low end machines used 3.5" IDE hard drives rather than 2.5". Bigger, Hotter? Yes. But much cheaper. Around that time a 3.5" 1.0GB hard drive was very affordable.

All Amiga's should have had a Buffered IDE as standard.

Even back in 1992 when the A600 and A1200 were released, those 20MB and 40MB hard drives were a joke and badly outdated. By then the standard in a PC was already 120MB.