Why would I want to buy an Amiga 1200 when I already have two Amiga 2000HD professional computers? The Amiga 1200 is to the Amiga 4000, what the Amiga 500 is to the Amiga 2000. If I decide to buy an AGA Chip Set Amiga, it will be the Amiga 4000, NOT the toy Amiga 1200!
Hmm, the A2000 is a toy too.
Why?
1) No PPC available
2) No PCI available
3) No Zorro-III
Get a machine that can properly be fitted with a PCI bus and a PPC processor and then you have a "professional" Amiga. Those Zorro -> PCI adapters aren't properly fitting a PCI bus, so the A3000T and A4000T are out.
Your choices: A3000, A4000, A1200. All of them need to be fitted into a tower before you can expand them.
Even the A2000 should be in a tower - the case doesn't have nearly enough bays for storage devices. - My A2000 has the hard drive just sitting inside the case. Hope it doesn't short itself on anything.
Get real, man. The A2000 is old and slow and you can only go so far with it. It was professional until something like 1990, but time has gone past it.
Stop looking at the box and start concentrating on what you can do with the machine. An A500 can be upgraded to take A2000 CPU cards and Zorro-II cards, making it just as "good" as the A2000.
Me personally, I don't like waiting for the sloooow Zorro-II bus to transfer screens into the graphics card's VRAM.. If a screen flip is measured in seconds, then forget it. Zorro-III or PCI is the way to go.
