What is the best Amiga in your Opinion?

[runequester]

So little love for the 1200?

With the humble 1200, you get:

AGA (you can use various tricks to run old software on your 1200, but nothing will get an AGA title to run on an ECS machine)

2 megs chip RAM built in.

A wealth of reasonably priced upgrade options for processors and RAM today.

Hard drive interface already in the machine

PCMCIA interface, making for extremely easy file transfers and networking.


On top of that, back in the day, the 1200 was quite affordable, even on a budget. Sure, a 3000 or 4000 was great but you'd pay through the nose.

[runequester]

With the CD32, I think the intention was just to get it to market, interest an existing audience and then work on something later.
 
From what I recall from an old post by Haynie, the CD32 basically sold out in the UK. Commodore's inability to build and sell enough was part of sealing the coffin.
 
 
So yeah, it'd have been doomed very shortly, but at the time, it was well received.