Amiga hardware superiority

[Paulie85]

I think at the time most people were a little disappointed with the AGA machines both in terms of specs and compatibility. Being an A500 owner I was hoping for an upgrade board for my setup which would have allowed better graphics and more speed(and an improved facelift for WB). Sadly this never really happened and I ended up buying a PC.

[Paulie85]

This makes no sense to me, why would u buy a cheap machine that had no proper expansion bus and then expect this(yes i know the side slot is technically zorro,and i know expansions were available(costly), why do you think the big box machines has zorro slots.You just bought the wrong thing.AGA was not great,but it was a far cry better than ecs.ecs was dog dirt slow.
all the big box amiga's had gfx card capabilities at the time.
common sense would of dictated to sell the 500 and go with a 2000 or better.even then used 2000's were pretty cheap.

I see this mentality thru the years with 1200 owners also.. they buy the cheapest machine  thinking they are saving $$,then whine about the lack of gfx card expansion and other shortcomings.the cheap machine is not always cheap if u care to expand it.You get what you pay for.but all water under the bridge these days.

I was 10 years old when I recieved my A500 and got attached to it as it had been a great experience to own one. My point is that I would rather have upgraded it than forked out on a new machine but this was not possible. Actually (unfortunately),common sense dictated I buy a PC as the Amiga was getting left behind and I waited quite a while before doing so.
And I'm not "whining" as you put it, I'm merely stating my assessment of the market at the time.