help me pick an amiga

[ElPolloDiabl]

Graphics cards and CPU upgrades for the A2000 are very expensive/rare.
Unless you want to play a lot of OCS games I would go with the A4000.
Advantages:
Onboard simm slots.
Inline video slot.
Has AGA so you can skip the graphics card upgrade.

[ElPolloDiabl]

@above

He must mean HAM mode.

[ElPolloDiabl]

@ above
You must explain this blitter trick for us. Is there a mod we can download to activated it.

I know that you can 256 color lo-res screen in VGA, but I thought Amiga used the bits differently and squeezed in HAM mode for 4096 colors.

[ElPolloDiabl]

The 2000HD was an A2000 with 2091 SCSI card in it.
The 2500 was a A2000 with a 2620 68020 board in it.
Later you could get the 2630 68030 card included as well, before it was dropped because it was competing with the Amiga 3000.
The 1500 was an A2000 with two floppy drives and was exclusive to UK.

The upgraded A2000s must be rare because they were dropped when the A3000 came out. Plus a lot of people would have waited for the A1200 before upgrading.

[ElPolloDiabl]

And the production cost was $400 for the A1200. $1000 for the A4000.
What they did with the profits, I don't know. Except for all the losses in their continual push into the PC market.
However much it would have cost to put in the AAA chipset instead of AGA would have been worth a hefty continuing profit margin.

[ElPolloDiabl]

Now that you mention it the amount of AGA games - worth playing - are pretty scarce. There were a bunch of AGA titles, but it was back to the dodgy ports, from other computers.

Still AGA is a cheaper graphics upgrade than trying to hunt an rtg card down.

I take it the A4000 is a bit more fragile because the chips are soldered to the board instead of in a socket?

[ElPolloDiabl]

@ CD-ROM above

The latest SATA CD/DVD drives are very quiet and reasonably short. Could you spring for an ide to SATA adapter? I think they are only $15 dollars.