Amiga beauty pageant - how would you rate them?

[Dandy]

A6000 wrote:

The thing is, people don't want a box cluttering up their desktop, which is strange considering that their solution is to stand a quite large tower on the desk instead.
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Wrong.
My "solution is to stand a quite large tower" BESIDE or BELOW "the desk instead".

[Quagmire]

IMO :-D

1.CDTV
2.A4000
3.A3000
4.A500
5.A1000
6.A1200
7.A2000
8.A600
9.CD32

[taunusand]

CaptChaos wrote:
Heh, 9 was supposed to be the cd32.

And yes the cd32 would not look awesome under my amp... it would just look broken... :lol:

Oh, now I understand :lol:

When I don't use my CD32, it stands on my old record player, makes it a little difficult to play my old LP records :crazy:

I could use a better setup :lol:

... I still think all non-yellow amiga's are beautiful :banana:

[Darrin]

The A2000 is my favourite Amiga as it is built to expand.  In a way, it needs to be at the bottom of the list because it is the only Amiga that could have all of the other models stacked on top of it without getting crushed.  :-D

The A3000D is the sexiest of the desktops, but there's bugger all room inside it.  The A4000D was a good compromise between the brick-shithouse look of the A2000 and the more eye pleasing A3000.

The A1200 cetainly wins the "wedge" battle.

Whoever turned the CDTV into the CD32 needs to be shot.

[motorollin]

Fingers wrote:
*EDIT* All desktop "wedge" Amigas are ugly as sin! Mine have all found new homes in rectangular cases...more space too!

I expect you would have a lot more space after compressing an Amiga to fit in to a two dimensional plane :-P

--
moto

[A6000]

stefcep2 wrote:
Why the A4000T?  All it is is just standard PC tower case with proper cut outs for the ports at the back.  hell it even has a turbo button at the front.... that does what?Dime a dozen looks..

I do not like tower cases, but I did like the black window in a white front on the a4000T.

[A6000]

Dandy wrote:
Wrong.
My "solution is to stand a quite large tower" BESIDE or BELOW "the desk instead".

So far, every PC I have seen has had the midi tower(which is still quite a large box) on the desk, I agree that if the tower is tall you can put it on the floor, but midi towers would have you bending down to insert a CD/DVD.

[Metalguy66]

Having owned and used all of them over the span of many years, here are my oppinions regarding Classic AMIGA case styling. These oppinions are purely related to cosmetic styling and in no way indicate my oppinions in regards to functionality, unless specifically stated.

WEDGES:
The A500 is the best looking "wedge". It's AERODYNAMIC, man! It's the only one that could compete with an ATARI 520/1040ST in a "wind-tunnel test". hahah. (Thats about the ONLY thing that the ST had going for it. Oh wait. I better mention the Built in MIDI ports so I don't piss off the ATARI people.) But seriously, these machines look particularly kewl with a GVP (or ICD Trifecta) sidecar expansion attatched.

The A600 looks like an Apple IIc... and the A1200 looks like a wide Apple IIc. (Although I would still vastly prefer the original cases to any "PC-looking" Tower case).

DESKTOPS:
The A3000 desktop is the coolest looking "big box". It has got the look that would have been "right at home" in a room full of SparcStations and SGI workstations.

The A1000 would come in second place.. These machines have that whole "early pizza-box style workstation" look to them. The nonstandard keyboard is not too appealing, but it does actually function well and its kinda kewl that it slides under the case perfectly. This sytem is also REALLY close to 19 inches wide. Ive often thought these would be great for mounting in a music/equipment rack.

The A4000 desktop is a definite improvement over the A2000 case and definitely has what I would consider "distinctive" AMIGA stlying, but lacks the sleek profile of the A3000 desktop and is approaching the realms of the casework used in some AT clone desktops of the day.
   
The A2000 has by far (in my oppinion) the least appealing cosmetics of any AMIGA made by commodore.(Not to say that we all wouldn't have KILLED for one back in 1988/89,) but there were plenty of XT (and early AT) desktop clones that had nicer ("cooler/sexier") looking cases...

TOWERS
The A4000T looks like a PC tower from the 486-Pentium III era. It's looks were "trendy" and "respectable" for it's time, but not exactly unique, and certainly not "distinctive" as an AMIGA.

The A3000T is unique, and is an awesome machine, but I don't know if Id classify it as "pretty". Having owned one, I am partial to these machines, but I could see how the average person might mistake it for some kind of mid-80s DEC or IBM mini-computer..  

ENTERTAINMENT CONSOLES
The CDTV looks like a VCR or early Home-Audio CD-PLAYER component.

The CD32 looks similar to a whole host of machines made in the CD-based game console era.


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Well, there it is. These are my personal oppinions as a long-time AMIGA owner/user. I know you didn't ask for a "research paper" but I felt like I should explain/elaborate. The average person's views may very well be completely different.  
 

[B00tDisk]

Never cared for the wedge machines.  Bought 'em, 'cause I was poor, but never cared for them.  Expanding was a chancy thing requiring all sorts of hacky tricks to get your expansions in.  I think cheapo boxes like that held the Amiga back off of really breaking in to the desktop PC world, honestly.

As to desktop units?  A3000, A2000, A4000.  The 3000...man what good can't I say about that?  Someone else described it as sleek and sexy and able to hold its own against SGI and Sun desktops, and I agree.  The A2000's case actually came from a canceled C= Unix box, the C900.  The 4000 was whatever Windows/DOS machine case that C= was flogging at the time, so zero points for style there.

Of the consoles the CDTV is probably the best; you can actually put it in with other components in a tight space and still use it.  However I can't really fault the CD32 - that thing was meant to be a real console, competing with the 3d0 (3dO?  3do?  Never sure about that one), Playstation and Sega CD - all of those are "weird" shapes and I can't really fault C= for designing something unique looking.  Plus the CD32 wasn't meant to be a desktop computer, so :-P on the haters!

Oh and there's a special hell for the designers of that godawful "Walker".

[Vlabguy1]

The A1000 beats all..

Do I really need to explain why??

Rich
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[Lorraine]

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[taunusand]

A6000 wrote:

Dandy wrote:
Wrong.
My "solution is to stand a quite large tower" BESIDE or BELOW "the desk instead".

So far, every PC I have seen has had the midi tower(which is still quite a large box) on the desk, I agree that if the tower is tall you can put it on the floor, but midi towers would have you bending down to insert a CD/DVD.

Both my A4000 tower(A4000D buildt into a tower) and my AMD midi tower stands on the floor. I agree, if I have to insert a CD I have to bend down, but it's not healty to just sit there without moving at all :-P