Which is your favourite Amiga and why?

[gleng]

The A1200 is probably the one that has stood the test of time the best.

The A600 and the A3000 are the prettiest though!

[rrete]

The veteran A500 of course! is "the start level".
All i know about Amigas was with my 500 and hours, days, months, years...(oh what a lovely times).
I like it's shape and keyboard touch, floppy noise... ¡and it's games!

Bye  :-D

[Speelgoedmannetje]

This is a real tough one for me....
Either it's the A500 or the CDTV...
The A500 for the bedroom programming/gaming/modtracking/demoing aspect, or the CDTV for it's awesome design/philosophy (though it just had to have an internal harddisk and diskdrive, and room for expandability.

[RRunner]

I loved my A1000 back in the day. Used it in University. Loved the design. Great machine... but my A2000 was terrific... built like a tank, able to expand it out the wazoo. I had an A500 at one point but I never got hooked on the all in one form factor. Never had an A1200... so my vote goes to the A2000.  :-D

[Roger]

Well that would be my A500 Plus with A530 Turbo 40 MHz, just fun working with it and playing some old games. :-)

[JetRacer]

The A1200 ofcourse - it's the best concept computer; everything gathered within a keyboard.

It's kinda funny how this thread pops up like a confirmation of the all-in-one concept I pointed out as a part of the Amiga success (in another thread). The vast majority here are those all-in-one models A500 and A1200.

[taunusand]

It's not easy for me to choose..
But I will have to say: A500
Because it was the first computer that i owned. Used it a lot :-)
Games & Interword with a 24 pin matrix printer.

In the living room I have a CD32 and a CDTV for games and to play cd's. Most people like it :-)

At the desk: A1200D and A4000T, Internet, music and games. And general some messing around just because Amiga are a hobby of mine :-D

Projekts: A1200T, A4000D and A3000D
A1200T, needs a lot of work before it will be done, will be my primary machine.
A3000D & A4000D just needs network cards.

My A500 and A600 are stored now, I will set them up when I have my computer room done.

[Yesnaby]

Well that was fun reading those posts.  Now I'd like to add my two penn'orth.  I do have one overall favourite Amiga, but I'll come to that later.

I started out with a 500+ - well, it wasn't really mine - I bought it for my son to use for his school projects.  However, he complained it was too big to fit on the desk he had at the time, so I bought him a 600 for his 16th birthday, and claimed the 500+ for myself.  I always loved that machine, and I still have it.  I put a hard drive onto it, had lots of programs and learned how to use them on that machine.  Perhaps this was all the more remarkable because of the fact that I was at the time 40 years of age, and had never used a computer in my life before!!!  I found the 500+ incredibly user friendly.

After using the 500+ for some time, and having purchased FinalWriter, I began a project on my local railway branch line.  I then decided to go on a computer course at the local comprehensive school - taking my Amiga with me and using a television as a monitor!!  However, after a while I found I knew more about computers than the other "beginners" there, and so abandoned the course and completed my project at home.  

I then treated myself to a 1200.  The main reasons for buying the 1200 were that I wanted to be able to use more colours, and as my project grew in length FinalWriter became slower and slower on the 500+.  However, I have to say I have always had a love/hate relationship with the 1200.  I love its speed and its capabilities, but I hate its habit of suddenly deciding I am pushing it too far and crashing on me!!!  I also purchased a 1200 tower from a friend, but I'm looking for an Amiga compatible monitor for it, as it has a PC monitor and the thingy at the back takes up too much space in the place where I have it.  By the way, to whoever it was who complained about the PC keyboard on a towered Amiga - didn't you think to buy a 4000 keyboard instead?

Whilst all this was going on I also equipped my brother with first of all an Amiga 600 and then a 1200.  The portability of the 600 is amazing - I carted my brother's machine across Manchester many times so that the late great Rob Baxter could install some sound samples on for me to use in a "book" I was compiling for my brother.

I think I may have mentioned on this forum previously that I have a 1000 - complete with all signatures - lurking under my desk.  One day I hope to set it up with one of my monitors and see what it can do.  My problem is lack of space, and, at the moment, time.

Now, having mentioned all these, you may be wondering what is the favourite machine of this crazy woman.  It is the 4000.  For years I wanted one, and always called it my dream machine.  I saw one working at one of the Amiga shows, and actually touched it!!!!  It was a dream for many years - and then a guy who ran a second hand shop locally, and knew about my Amiga fetish, told me one day he had something I may be interested in, and lo and behold it was a 4000.  Whoever had owned it had no idea of the power of such a fantastic machine, and had installed very little.  What he had installed was way below 4000 standard.  I bought the machine, got it home and used it, but it kept crashing on me.  A friend looked at it and we discovered the battery had corroded and leaked onto a couple of the chips.  He tried to fix it but the motherboard was pronounced dead.  I then acquired another motherboard and eventually it appeared to be fixed.  However, at the moment it is misbehaving itself again, and lack of time - both on my part and the part of my friend - precludes me doing anything about it.  I will though, and will eventually have my dream machine operating again on my desk.  Meanwhile the old workhorse 1200 continues to do what I want it to - nice machine, I like you really - and I plod on doing the boring jobs I have to do at the moment.

One thing I have discovered is that my Amiga does things far more efficiently than my son's PC does for him.  For one thing it doesn't ask stupid questions when you feed it a file it has never seen before!!!!  Good resolution on his monitor apart, watching my son use his PC leaves me with no desire at all to invest in a Gates Crate.  What I WOULD like for compatability and portability is an IBook - but I would also like the money it costs to buy one!!!!  Maybe one day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Let's have some more comments about Amigas - I love it.

Regards Kathy

[cv643d]

I have to choose A2000.

Well it is not perfect, but I can not think of a more badass workstation.

[HopperJF]

The Amiga 1200 - compact and probably the most versatile expandable computer ever!

Now, if NatAmi gets released in a wedge and is as good and compatible as I've heard, that could change  :-D

[Bonami]

My fav'rit would have been ... A6000 / A6060 .... the CDTV equivalent of A1200.

http://www.amigahistory.co.uk/wondertv.html

Really want to track down one and own it.....
Anybody's got one?

[klx300r]

the A1200 hands down for me :-D  love the style, solid feel of it..great for aga games ...add a Blizzard card and wow!..i just installed a 2GB CF HD and man its a silent and fast killer retro machine with modern goodies on it ;-)

[Xamiche]

Amithony wrote:
I thought I'd throw this one out there to get a snapshot for my Amiga time capsule.

That's such a tough question. When I think of Amigas I think of the wedgies. I had never seen any of the high end systems until I started collecting them. My first Amiga was a 500, then later a 600. These two have a special place in my mind, though when the 1200 was released I would have sold my soul for one. I didn't get one until 2001 when I started expanding my Amiga collection.

I think I'd have to say the Amiga 500 is my favourite. I think it's the one machine that made the Amiga a highly sought after home computer in the late 80's and early 90's. Some think of it as a gaming console, though I'd admonish anyone who limits it by characterising it as such. To me it seemed so far in advance of any of the home computers of the time, at least until the Atari ST came along, loathed as I am to say that. By the time the 1200 hit, home PC had already closed the gap, so it didn't seem as miraculous to me by comparison. The little beige beasty is the first thing I think of when I hear or see the word Amiga.  8-)