Amiga 1300[What ifs]

[WolfToTheMoon]

Reading a bit through the wonderful Amiga History webpage and found this...

Commodore UK were planning to develop the current Amiga technology for the next year (1995, although a next generation Amiga would likely have slipped to 1996). An unconfirmed rumour suggested that the new line that is referred to would be based upon an upgraded A1200. The Amiga 1300, as it was dubbed, would feature an 25 or 33MHz EC030, 2Mb Chip, 2MB Fast RAM, as well as an internal CD-ROM and an optional hard drive (the hard drive would be added by local dealers to take advantage of the latest prices). This rumour had been circulating for a number of months before Commodore went into liquidation, the A1300 would have been a prototypical design created by Commodore UK

Ok, A1300 never been confirmed to existed so it's just a hypothetical, but is it just me or this sounds awfully underpowered for the time? Or maybe it was their intention to sell it as a (very)cheap PC alternative? How did the A1200 compare to a cheap 286/386 system pricewise?

[WolfToTheMoon]

93' or 94' this could perhaps have worked. Later than that -your up against PS1 and Saturn at the low end, and Pentium at the high end. But with the A500+ quickly replaced by the A600, people had already had their fingers burnt. Imagine then getting the A1200 and having it phased out a year later!

A lot of these specs are what the A1200 should have had. I think Commodore had missed the boat once they'd buggered up AGA.

Yeah...
Maybe it would be enticing enough for (then)current Amiga owners to upgrade, especially if it also had an OS upgrade, but it wouldn't work in the outside world, especially in 95'.