Which is the LEAST popular Amiga?

[Moto]

Just curious, since I've been away from the Amiga scene for so long, out of the 1000, 500, 2000, 3000, 600, 1200 and 4000, which is the LEAST popular with the Amiga community?

Here in the US back in the old days, the 500 seemed to be the most popular.  Most of the people I knew had a 500 and maybe a 2000.  

But now I see that the 500, 1200 and 4000 are the most talked about systems on the forums and there seems to be the most support for them.  I don't see too many new products for the 2000 or 3000 at all.

[Dragster]

I'd say the A600 is the least popular/common Amiga in the USA and in general, on this side of the planet... the A600 (NTSC) version seems to be quite rare and it goes for some cash when one shows on epay...
 
 
Cheers

[redrumloa]

It was the A600, at least until very recently. I remember in the early days of my eBay selling (1997ish, despite eBay saying I registered in 1998), I would have a hard time getting anything for a new in the box A600. My friend's brick & mortar Amiga shop couldn't move A600s at all. It was a terribly underpowered Amiga when it came out and showed the stupidity on parade at Commodore.

That said, nowadays NTSC Amiga 600s are a hot commodity. So I guess it depends on what era you mean. Nowadays? Amiga 2000s are like kryptonite. Earlier this year I auctioned a new boxed Amiga 2000 and got ~$150. I felt like I got kicked smack in the scrotum. :eek:

[alex]

I think the A600 was always the sexiest Amiga ever.  I had one and it was just so dang cute and compact.  I tried hard as hell to justify keeping it, but finally sold it.  If it only had a touch more power it was the perfect form factor Amiga.

Next to that the beauty with the brains was the A3000.  All the power and great looks.

As for the worst, I ALWAYS ALWAYS thought the A2000 was a terribly ugly piece of dog  crap.  The only redeeming characteristic was the whole Video Toaster connection.  Now that the Video Toaster is pretty damn useless 15 year old technology, I think the A2000s need a mass burial at sea.

If there were only some way to make those A600 keyboards compatible with the mini-mig or PC connectors so I could wedge a better computer inside the A600 case (running an Amiga Emulator or something), I would be in heaven.  Provided I could find another A600.

-Alex

[Beast96GT]

Well, it seems the winner is the A1500--it hasn't even been mentioned in the least popular thread!

[CountRaven]

I think the A2000s need a mass burial at sea.

Remember that the 2000 is the most eassy to expand Amiga. It has plenty of space isnide. It is a good solution for Amiga retro maniacs that do not want to move to PPC stuff even on their classics. On the other hand someone has to pay some good cash for a 2060 accelerator. But there are still the 2030 ones

[Gulliver]

For me its the A500+ (Amiga 500 Plus). A really piece of useless crap!

[save2600]

CDTV, A2500 (just for the nameplate really) & yeah... the A600 for sure.

@Gulliver, why is the A500+ useless or crap??

[Moto]

A friend of mine gave me his fully loaded 2000 (GVP 030 combo, etc) in 1994 and I kept it a year before selling it to some university for $250 who was going around buying as many as they could.  The 2000 always felt like another beige box and didn't inspire me.  I always liked Commodore's crazy case designs.  And man that 2000 is heavy!  Reminds me of the original IBM PCs.

@beast96GT & @Gulliver : I wasn't counting those oddball systems :-)

-daniel

[NovaCoder]

Just curious, since I've been away from the Amiga scene for so long, out of the 1000, 500, 2000, 3000, 600, 1200 and 4000, which is the LEAST popular with the Amiga community?

Everyone has their own opinon but and for me personally, I'd only be interested in owning a 1200, 3000 or 4000.

Least fav of the rest would have to be the 600, Commodore at their silliest.

[Cammy]

I guess the least popular Amigas here at the Underground Arcade office would have to be the poor old A2000s. Both of them have been killed by their clock batteries, and sit in our temporary Amiga graveyard next to a couple of CD32s, some A1200s and an A500. Yet if we can ever afford to get any of them fixed, I know for sure it won't be the A2000s going first, the A1200s and CD32s are far more useful (one of the CD32s has a fully decked SX32 in it).

Still, I do wish I can get those old A2000s up and running again some day, I think it'd be fun to experiment with the wide range of Zorro II cards out there.

It's funny how the A600 was traditionally the least popular Amiga, yet lately with more hardware expansion options available for them, they've become more popular at last, an that's okay with me because they're so cute! My A600 has a USB numeric keypad, mouse, control pad, and can go online. I use it to chat on IRC and MSN, and for online gaming in MUDs.

[Beast96GT]

A friend of mine gave me his fully loaded 2000 (GVP 030 combo, etc) in 1994 and I kept it a year before selling it to some university for $250 who was going around buying as many as they could.  The 2000 always felt like another beige box and didn't inspire me.  I always liked Commodore's crazy case designs.  And man that 2000 is heavy!  Reminds me of the original IBM PCs.

@beast96GT & @Gulliver : I wasn't counting those oddball systems :-)

-daniel

The Amiga 2000 was a tour de force of expandibility and was, back in the day, easily distinguishable from the beige IBM clones.  The dark brown fascia with the Amiga logo pasted on the front easily separated it from the PC, but Commodore was at least smart enough to know that it needed to look like a computer to sell.  

Also, back then, all computers were heavy.  It wasn't until the mid to late 90's, when LAN party gaming really started to take off, that people demanded lightweight, more portable boxes.  The Pentium 200Mhz tower that I bought in 1996, made the A2000 look like a wafer.  

And, yes, I was kidding about the A1500, but the A2000 is definitely not, nor should it be remotely considered, the least popular Amiga.

Cheers.

++Chris

[Gulliver]

@save2600

I think the A500+, because it was sold to me as an Amiga 500 by a Commodore dealer, and when i tryed to play my 2 favourite games at that time, SWIV and Lotus Espirit Turbo Challenge, it failed due to incompatibilities with kickstart 2.04
On the other hand, it was 1992, i bought it to play those games and i couldnt, and if i had saved more bucks i could have bought an Amiga 1200.
It was so unpopular that Commodore retired it from the shops soon after they released it!

So, i hate it!

[Kronos]

If there were only some way to make those A600 keyboards compatible with the mini-mig or PC connectors so I could wedge a better computer inside the A600 case (running an Amiga Emulator or something), I would be in heaven.  Provided I could find another A600.

-Alex

http://www.vesalia.de/e_keyrah%5B4761%5D.htm

I know atleast 1 guy who wedged an Efika into an A600 useing this.

[Jiffy]

Well, it seems the winner is the A1500--it hasn't even been mentioned in the least popular thread!

The A1500 is an A2000. As is the A2500.