The Beauty and the Beast of Amiga hardware

[KThunder]

Beauty: A1000
Ugly:   A2000
Beauty: A3000
Ugly:   A3000t
Beauty: A4000
Ugly:   they broke the mold the 4000t is a beauty

All the wedge miggies are beauties but all the wires and hardware hanging off the sides and back are a bit rough on the eyes.

edit: the walker i forgot the walker i think everyone has a different opinion on this. i think its cool but not a beauty.

[KThunder]

Put a cf drive in and a nicad battery pack and hook an lcd monitor off the back with a wireless mouse and i would completely agree.

actually i think the a500 is better looking. the 1200 is like they said "hey people are calling these things wedge computers lets make the wedgiest wedge we can make"

so they did.

[KThunder]

wouldnt the 600 be function-follows-form since they chopped off the numeric section of the keyboard (which is needed by many programs) to make it so small.

that aside i agree it is a nice comp. there should have been an a600laptop from commodore.

[KThunder]

there were a few others that were easier with the numeric keyboard as well as any spreadsheets etc software that has alot of numerical input.

my point wasnt that there were progs that used it but that part of the functionality was removed so i would say that functionality-followed-form with the a600 not that that is a really bad thing though since the c64 and numerous other computers never had numeric keyboards.
the 600 was mainly released as a games machine. i just wish it was possible to get an ntsc one in good condition for a reasonable price.