I am offered Amiga 4000 or A1200

[bbond007]

I know someone who is offering me an Amiga 4000 toaster or an Amiga 1200 expanded to tower with all the cool expansion gadgets and toys for the Amiga 1200 (it is towered to be an Amiga 4000) for free he is giving it to me for free in exchange I sell LOTS AND LOTS and lots of Amiga hardware for him. So the question to you guys, what is the best choice for me? An Amiga 1200 towered or an Amiga 4000 with toaster? Thanks in advance.

I like the 1200. it is my favorite Amiga...but

I would look at the specs of both systems before making a decision.

- CPU (Accelerator boards, stock CPU)
- Condition, Damage due to battery leak(4000), etc.
- Bussboards(PCI or whatever strange thing might be in a 1200)
- Graphics cards
- Other Expansions such as USB

Also look at quality of tower conversion. I have seen some strange stuff from 6 foot tall (1.8288 meters for you metric nuts) 4000s and some really hacky shoehorning of poor little A1200 motherboards into PC cases.

Now, this is a towered A1200 so if both systems are pretty equivalent then I would take the 4000. A1200s are designed to be desktop computers.

[bbond007]

If a4000 would have 060 accelerator, I'd take it as those are too expensive and rare to get otherwise. But in other cases A1200 is easier and cheaper to expand...

You can get relatively cheap 030 boards and a subway USB, but I don't see this plethora of A1200 hardware you speak of...