I always loved the A3000 line. The desktop variant was a little small case wise, but the A3000T IMHO was the best Amiga ever made once a guy kitted it out. I'd love to find an A3000T style case to throw one of my NG machine mobos in, heh.
My first Miggy was an A3000, real early 16 mhz one. After that I had a RTG based '060 A4000 with a 4091 in it, but for the life of me I always missed the lines of the A3000. The case had a lot more style, and the machine as a whole struck me as a lot higher end/less utilitarian and less "last ditch effort" hardware wise than the A4000/A1200, like the designers of the 3000 really wanted it to be their Magnum Opus, so to speak. The A2000 was a hell of a workhorse of a machine, but IMHO the most ugly and utilitarian design of all of them. Design on the 2000 would never win any awards, but the damned things were near bulletproof. I had an 'GVP '030 powered A2000 that I literally managed to drop down the stairs when I was moving it one day and it didn't take a lick of damage other than one scratch, lol.
Built in flicker fixer of the A3000 was hard to beat, but the cheaper IDE device trail on the more modern machines vs. SCSI on the previous machines was great too for the end user. SCSI always was, and still is - expensive and more complex.
