It realyl depends what you want to do. The A2000 offers lots of options for expandability over the A1200 in a standard case. However what you don't have in the A2000 is AGA, which the A1200 does have. So you won't be able to run aga demos/games on the A2000. I've got a Picasso II in my A2000 and for running productivity software - Dpaint, FinaWriter etc its fine. I don't miss not having AGA. However I've still got an A4000D and a A1200 for AGA stuff.