A friend of mine gave me his fully loaded 2000 (GVP 030 combo, etc) in 1994 and I kept it a year before selling it to some university for $250 who was going around buying as many as they could. The 2000 always felt like another beige box and didn't inspire me. I always liked Commodore's crazy case designs. And man that 2000 is heavy! Reminds me of the original IBM PCs.
@beast96GT & @Gulliver : I wasn't counting those oddball systems :-)
-daniel
The Amiga 2000 was a tour de force of expandibility and was, back in the day, easily distinguishable from the beige IBM clones. The dark brown fascia with the Amiga logo pasted on the front easily separated it from the PC, but Commodore was at least smart enough to know that it needed to
look like a computer to sell.
Also, back then,
all computers were heavy. It wasn't until the mid to late 90's, when LAN party gaming really started to take off, that people demanded lightweight, more portable boxes. The Pentium 200Mhz tower that I bought in 1996, made the A2000 look like a wafer.
And, yes, I was kidding about the A1500, but the A2000 is definitely not, nor should it be remotely considered, the
least popular Amiga.
Cheers.
++Chris
