Amiga 600 to buy or not to buy

[TjLaZer]

I would not get an A600 unless you got it for CHEAP.  Reason?  1.  It's not much of an upgrade from your A500, and 2. It suffers from frequent and very common CAP damage.  (which will render it dead)  The A500 does have this problem (A500 plus has similar issues with battery leak damage)

I have thee of them and two have had their motherboards repaired a few times and one replaced due to bad caps.

[TjLaZer]

A600 is most of the times cheap comparing it with A500+ and personally I never had an issues with cap damage in an A600 (and I had 4 of them).
Only had an cap issue once in an A1200 mobo of mine.

Do a Google search and search Amibay for Cap issues on A600's then report back

[TjLaZer]

^ Well you are lucky then, most of us are not with regards to the little old A600, but the fact of the matter is newer Amigas are plagued with CAP issues so the OP asked if he should buy an A600 or keep his old trusty A500, so I threw him my two pennies.  

Not sure about you but If I had a choice in a retro computer where I did not have to constantly be replacing caps I would pick that one.  The A500/2000 series do not have SMD caps to replace like the A600/1200 and 4000.

But hey he can get it and have both!  (Like me I collect all Amigas)  But just don't think you can replace the A500 with a A600 as you might end up having a dead Amiga sooner than you think

[TjLaZer]

An oppertunity to buy an amiga 600 has come up and I cant decide if I should or not! Basicaly I have a 500 and have wanted a 1200 for some time but not really been fussed about the 600. I sort off see it stuck in the middle with ECS being not much better than the 500 but with the chance to fit a harddrive which is something I have wanted on an amiga which would be cool! I do think its the best looking of the amigas though!

So basicaly I wondered what you all think of the 600 should I buy it??

Like I said, If the A600 was really cheap (Under $50) I would get it for sure. Its a nice machine.  I have three of them. Then I would also get an A1200 if you could.  The 1200 is worth it though, much better than the A600.  It has AGA and easy accelerator options too.  Though the A600 now has a nice 030 option.