Is the A1200 really that cool of a computer???

[rvo_nl]

The cool thing about the a1200 is its ability to 'grow' with your demands. At first, its just as with the A500: a cheap alternative to the big box machines that can play all those cool new games. And believe me, there are loads of AGA games that you're not able to play on your old ECS machines. Then, after some time, you run some productivity stuff and find out you want a harddrive. After that, you get an accelerator, a tower conversion, graphics card etc etc. Each time it makes the machine even better than before, each time it is able to meet your demands.
 
Last year I had to decide between a stock a1200 and a stock a4000/040 and in the end I went for the a1200 route, selling the a4000. Its just much more fullfilling to have an entry-level machine expanded to the max, especially when you can keep it all in its original case.

[rvo_nl]

Hello All,
 
Why waste you time on toy computers(A500,A600,CD32,A1200) then go head. But If you look around in Australia (don't know any others parts of the world) you can find nice A3000-T or A4000-T for few hundred.But A3000T and A4000T are built like tanks.
 
Thanks in advance,
Merv Stent

Too much of a tank for me. I prefer the looks of a nice & quiet Power Tower'ed a1200 anytime. The 4000D is even worse, I could never fit that on my desk in an elegant way. And fitting stuff inside the case was a pain aswell. There can be only one. And its the a1200!
 
Oh, and wait, how much memory goes into a PPC'ed a4000 again? What, only 128MB?!

[rvo_nl]

some more things I like about the a1200:
 
- rf output for easy connecting to tv
- ability to scale right down to base cpu (020) on the blizzard accelerator boards (maximum compatibility, the big box amiga's cant do that!)