Just in November, December alone (and I had no cash) there was a complete Video editing studio with the A2000 Video Toaster, 4 monitors and a Sony VT editing station. Anotherwords a complete turnkey Studio with EVERYTHING, and the guy could not get $200. He had it listed 3 times with a last time BIN of $185. now the shipping would have been increadible, but those deals pop up all the time on the 2000.
Interesting, I got almost $300 for my A2000 Toaster which was complete but just a stock Toaster 2000. And I thought the $159 buy it now price that I started the auction with was maybe a bit high.
The main disatvantage of the A2000 for me is the space they take up. One is good, two was too much. I could have picked up a Mac G5 in perfect shape last week for free but turned it down for the same reason: nowhere to put it, it was huge, even bigger than an A2000. The A4000D is much more ergonomic. And, in spite of it's shortcomings, I like AGA. The AGA desktop is disappointing but the AGA ham modes are beautiful and unique.
And back to the main theme of the thread, I would say the number one shortcoming, lack of foresight, of the Amiga is the difficulty of expanding memory. It doesn't matter what model, there is some hangup: On the A 2000, going beyond 8mb depends on the accelerator, On the A3000, the zip ram on the mother board is expensive and hard to find and there aren't many zorro III memory cards, 3 that I can think of off hand, and on the A4000, the motherboard uses inexpensive simms but going beyond 24mb(16mb ram +8mb slow zorroII ram,) requires an expensive accelerator with simm sockets or one of the 3 zorro III memory cards and the only one that shows up for sale very often is the Fastlane Z3. The A4000 has great compatibility with modern hard drives for a machine that old but it would be so nice if you could use 16 and 32mb simms on the motherboard instead of 4mb ones like some of the Macs made in the early 90s.
