What was the Best and "not so good" Amiga Models?

[DoomMaster]

To xeron:

The A500 is not a 'low quality' computer. It is very well manufactured, and likely to last you a long time.

Tell that to the cheap plastic case and the stripped out screw holes in the plastic stand-offs.  Also, tell that to the low quality Amiga 500 keyboard.  Just compare an Amiga 2000 keyboard to an Amiga 500 keyboard, you will readily see the difference in quality.  The Amiga 2000 keyboard has Cherry switches from Italy and the characters are printed on top of the keys.  The Amiga 500 keyboard has low quality Chicklet (rubber) key switches and the characters on top of the keys are decals.     :-o

[xeron]

Considering the extremely high price of the A2000 at the time, if Commodore hadn't released the A500 line the Amiga wouldn't have made it any further, period.

Considering the market the A500 was designed for, the fact that very few of them are going to be regularily stood on by elephants, the A500 does what it was designed for, and it does it very well.

[DoomMaster]

To xeron:

You are right about that, buddy.  Oh by the way, quality does cost more, so if a person wants high quality then they should be prepared to pay more money for it.  There is no such thing as low-cost high quality.     :-D

[amigamad]

I would say the a500 ive had so many .My first one is at my sisters now unused bought it 12 years ago secondhand.I built another wich i now have again from bits.I sold one, i got one out of a skip and i have had 3 others from an auction for 3 pound about six years ago  of wich two were spares only and one was working .The a1500+ i had was also from auction about 6 years ago cost me 6 pound including a a good quality 24 pin nec printer and pc keyboard. I gave this solid old brick away a few years ago, shame as it will now be joining the a4000s with battery corrosion as it was a late 1992-1993 2.04 machine with the battery backed clock im sure it was 1993 it had that written on a sticker with commadore on with the month day and year on it.


also my cdtv is great as is my  3 a1200,s.

The worst is the a4000 desktop this is by far the poorest case desighn ever so little space its more like an oven . :-o  :-D  :-D

[MarkTime]

Well the worst Amiga was the Amiga 1000, and the best Amiga is the AmigaONE XE G4/933.

The worst Macintosh was the original Macintosh (128k) the best Macintosh is the Dual G5/2ghz model.

<---ok some of you are detecting a certain literal minded bent to my answers.... ;-)

[amigamad]

Also, tell that to the low quality Amiga 500 keyboard. Just compare an Amiga 2000 keyboard to an Amiga 500 keyboard, you will readily see the difference in quality. The Amiga 2000 keyboard has Cherry switches

And it is a heavy old thing my a 2000 keyboard model no. KKQ_E94YC is the same as an a500 and has rubber mitsumi made keyboard and no cherry switches i just opend mine up to see so only some are good quality . :-?

[DoomMaster]

To amigamad:

The later released Amiga 2000 computers came with the lower quality Amiga 500 keyboards.     :-o

[amigamad]

The later released Amiga 2000 computers came with the lower quality Amiga 500 keyboards.  

ok what model number is your better qaulity keyboard . :-) or commadore part number.

[LP]

The best Amiga model is this very thing I'm writing this from...

My A1200... You can expand this animal in unbelivable many ways... I know the A4000 can be expaned too, but I've always been fund of my A1200... + A4000 parts is hard to get hold of these days , So the best is definetly A1200...

The "not so good" is A600, in my eyes...

[jeffimix]

I think the CD32 is the coolest looking amiga, I just have a fetish for top loading CDs is all.  The big box amigas are reallt the most capable in my opinion, 1200s can be made to do everything a 4000 can more or less, but it's kinda odd, more quality control having more stuff just in the motherboard itself.

[lempkee]

CDTV / CD32 / A600 was them who had most potential but released at the wrong time..

CDTV was 3 years before its time really...

Cd32 Came 1 year too late.

A600 should have arrived instead of the a500+.

best machine must be the a3000 i think , but i would say that my a1200 has really impressed me in ways of expanding/hacking.

the a4000 was a dodgy piece of #### when it came, later models was great, but then again it all went down to one aspect .. compability was very bad on the a4000/040 compared to the a1200 etc.

cheers

[iamaboringperson]

For looks/sex appeal I would have say the A3000(UX), I love it and I would probably kill for one!!

For usability the A4000T is the nicest - and I do own one of those! :-)

[Cyberus]

@ DoomMaster

for some reason most Europeans like these low quality Amigas

Don't forget that most Europeans are also closet communists...

[DIABLO_NEGRO]

lol

I need to find a cool tower i can cram an A4000 mobo into...

what kind of power supply does an a4000 take any wayz??

[leirbag28]

Ha, it just comes to show that the majority isn't always right. The best Amiga ever made without a doubt was the CD32.............it is the closest thing to what an Amiga is all about............Im talking about auto boot just like a console.........no stupid PC like start up and waiting just straight foward..........insert a CD, it goes to a CD menu, insert a game.........boots up with no typing, insert a Video CD, plays by hitting the play button, insert a CD+G, and it will display the words to the song, if you have an SX-1 or SX32, it boots up to workbench............definitely one of the Amigas with the least problems.............if the 4000 had the ability to do all this then it would be best. CD32 also had standard 6 button pads, a headphone jack, a CD - ROM drive, an off button on the computer rather than on the brick, Had composite Video Out, S-Video Out, RF out, and if u have an SX32 give it a VGA out and RGB out, thats 5 Video Outputs! and S-Video is essential if you want RGB like output to a TV.
 The A600 is an excellent machine...........just wish it had an expansion port like the 500.

 The 2000 is the Ugliest Amiga ever made and is a huge Behemoth, the 3000 looks way too much like a PC jr and the 4000 desktop looks too plain ( The 4000T is very neat though) and the 500 is another huge monster and way too many hanging parts especially that stupid RF modulator that didnt screw on, and the A1200 i like only because its AGA and looks like and extended A600, but is also not as wide as a 500, and of course the one and only Lovely A1000, a really nice setup especially at the time if u had the monitor and external disk drives

The CDTV looked ecellent but sucked bigtime.

Now funny enough, I have had all these Amigas before except the CDTV and the 4000T

[Rodney]

My favourite would have to be the A1200 because thats the first computer i owned.

I most pointless of all computers must have been the A600. I remember seeing it for the first time in a mag, either just before or after it was released, and there and then i couldnt imagine the stupidity of commador. I knew commador wasnt in the best of positions, but after seeing this, i knew commador was going down the drain.

Looking back, i dont think the CD32 was that hot either, its was good fun but it didnt seem as if it was a huge success. IT wasnt pusing any boundrys, it had the same chipset as the A1200 and A4000... (at least i think the A4000 chipset was the same)...

infact, anything after the A4000 wasnt that inovative. the A1200 was a home users A4000. The CD32 was the gamers, just because it didnt have a keyboard and a monitor. Commador should have been a lot more inovative. Lets face it, commador was prolly never inovative, they bought the Amiga and everyonen who were developing it. If they hadnt have done that, they would have died long before it. Because, they're not inovative!

They could have atleast stolen a few ideas, like MS it keeps them afloat!