A1000 was very good for the time. You can expand it with practically anything but you have to plug a riser board into the 68K slot. I wanted an external hard drive, but couldn't afford it. Having to boot kickstart didn't bug me since Workbench came up so fast, anyway. I had already used a Mac when I got my 1000, so I knew I was getting off easy. The oldest Amiga was a rocket compared to a top-end Mac in '88. :-)
I wasn't a big fan of the 3000. Expandable, yes, but out of the box it was basicly a 500 in terms of graphics, and way too expensive.
The 4000 was also a real disappointment. Same graphics as the 1200; actually slower since the faster CPU robbed some graphics cycles, or some stuff like that. Good for number crunching but not much else. I took one look at the screen refresh speed at 640x400x8, and knew Commodore was going down.
so releasing something practically the SAME as it (the A500+) with incompatibilities to games (KS 2.0) was pretty crappy.
Well, Commodore DID warn people not to hard-code the thing. Couldn't delay 2.0 forever.
A standard '020 in the 500+ would've been nice. It was certainly too little for the already underpowered 1200. Moore's Law meant nothing to Amigas.
