Amiga 1000 versus Amiga 500

[amiga_3k]

Design-wise the A1000 is a neat machine. Most, if not all, custom-chips on it should be replaceable by A500 versions making it as good / bad as the A500.  However, it seems that for the A500 more expansions have been designed and sold. Also getting spares is easier: just buy a functional A500 for a box of beer and off you go.

That was how I thought about it until a few weeks ago. Right now, if money would be no object,  I'd consider the A1000 route with a little extra in the shape of Phoenix.

[amiga_3k]

Better first have a look at the hardware specs of the Phoenix before starting to shout. The Phoenix mainboard is a mix of technologies used on the A1000, A500 and A2000 (it has a video slot, it has a ZORRO II, it has the A1000 expansion port,....). To get a way with licensing it wasn't sold WITH the custom-chips in place. So you'd need a scrap A500 (or 1000) to get the custom-chips from.

So... it's an Amiga(ish), not 'yet another PC, MAC, Atari....'.