What is the best Amiga in your Opinion?

[desiv]

T... then underpowered compared with the Saturn, Jaguar and Playstation.

To be fair.
CD32 - September 1993
Saturn - November 22, 1994
Playstation - 1994 (Japan)
Jaguar - November 23, 1993

So, only the cartridge based Jaguar was released around the same time.
And although "doing the math" showed it to have lots of BITS, not a lot of the games took advantage of it...
In fact, there are a lot of Amiga looking games on the Jag...

Without the XOR patent issue and if they would have just added 1M of true FAST RAM, who knows what would have happened...
(That and stopping those lazy ports..  Seriously, a controller like that, and you still have games that you have to press the joypad UP to jump  :rant: ).

The best Amiga to me is still the A1000.  The original.  It was a huge jump.
All of the others are incremental updates, and too slow and not enough for the time at that.  Doesn't mean they weren't great.  I love my A1200.  
But I gotta go with the 1000..

desiv

[desiv]

-No expansion slots/Zorro III

It had an expansion slot.  On the side.  It wasn't Zorro III, but it was many many years before Zorro III.  That's like complaining that it didn't have PCI or AGP.  ;-)

-Only 256k for Kickstart

You could softkick higher if you had extra RAM.

-No CPU slot

But there were CPU accelerators that attached to the CPU and/or side expansion.

-OCS only

No ECS is not really a big deal.  Not many people actually used those modes.
I do agree that the big drawback was that it was stuck with 512M CHIP, which is a problem..  Only solution I'm aware of to that is a motherboard replacement, and those are hard to come by...

-Side expansion was cumbersome

That's a matter of opinion.  I like side expansions myself.. ;-)

-No RTC

That's silly.  Adding a RTC is easy.  Lots of expansions came with one.

And considering the jump in technology, the 1000 was a HUGE jump.  Most of the other Amigas were littler jumps, and it took way to long to get there..

For it's time, I still say the A1000 was the best.
For today, I'd have to say the A1200.  Cost, expansion, features...

The 3000 was great looking and had the built in flicker fixer.  Nice.  But no improved graphics.  (ECS doesn't count)
The 4000 had AGA and lots of slots, but lost the Flicker Fixer.

Nice machines, but no Amiga 1000..  ;-)

desiv