Most/least fave amiga model?

[dougal]

Most: A1200 for IDE + AGA + PMCIA
Least: CDTV cause its useless or else CD32

Ex Favorite: A500Plus because its my first Amiga when i was 12 yrs old
Ex Least favorite: A600 because just after buying my A500+, i saw an article on Amiga Format saying "The A500 is dead, long live the Amiga" in reference to the A600 being released

[odin]

Most favourite: A1200. Used one from 1993 until ooh 2003? It got towerised PPC-ised and generally Frankensteined in the meantime. The 3,5" IDE hard drive in an external biscuit tin has to be one of my most ingenious (cough) expansions for it.

Least favourite: A1200. Unstable piece of shit at times. Even more so with the growing amount of Frankenstein-bits duct taped to it. The PPC card especially was a bitch.

Ultimate machine I've always wanted to own: A3000T. I did manage to house my A1200 in a surplus empty A3kT tower once .

[Karlos]

most favourite: A1200. Used one from 1993 until ooh 2003? It got towerised ppc-ised and generally frankensteined in the meantime.

Least favourite: A1200. Unstable piece of shit at times. Even more so with the growing amount of frankenstein-bits duct taped to it. The ppc card especially was a bitch.

qfmft.

Although mine is still going, as you can see from the sig.

[stefcep2]

Favourite:  Pimped A4000- 68060, CV-64, scandoubler, cd-burner, Vlab motion. Close second: A1200 with my Apollo 68060.  Both machines as stock are fairly useless.  An 1200 with 2meg ram? Pointless.
Least favourite:  A2000.  I hate the massive case.  And the 16 bit bus chokes any expansions you might add to it.

[runequester]

I actually rather like the 600. Its small and snazzy. Sure it wasn't a machine Commodore needed to spend money on, but today.. its cute.

[smerf]

Hi,

Favorite Amiga was the Amiga 1000 because it did have kickstart disks that could be upgraded with time and as long as Commodore supported the kickstart disks.

My least favorite was the A2000 which sort of reminded me of an overgrown A500 with expandability which wasn't really supported. Plus what was with all the isa slots with no control board a total waste of space.

@ the leander

son now listen up, ya hear, now why are you talkin franken 1200 when what we all wanted to know was your favorite and least favorite Amiga. Stick the subject matter son, you beginning to sound like a MAC fanboy.

smerf

[rvo_nl]

without any doubt the amiga 1200.. the most expandable entry-level machine commodore ever built. just look at my sig I like the a600 too, because its nice, compact and it reminds me of the c64. my least favorite, probably the bulky and slow a2000.

[save2600]

Most favorite all around would be the Amiga 1000. From before its rollout, I was in love with that machine and bought one when they became more affordable by '87, around the time A500/A2000 were released.

In practice though and what I use currently the most today would be the A3000. Couldn't afford an A3000 when they were released ($3200+!) and by the time they were affordable ($500+), the A1200 was already out and went with that machine instead because of its promising AGA architecture and came bundled with OS3.0.

Today I do not own an AGA capable machine and I'm fine with that. I like the looks and feel of the 3000 too much to go back to one. It's just a more practical machine for me w/ more sensible expansion options. A1200's case and styling though is nice, don't get me wrong. Great little computer for sure.

Least favorite would be the A500 (too big as already mentioned) and A4000. Even though A4000's tend to be problematic, it's not a terribly big deal changing out caps. I just don't care for the case and styling of the machine. It was overpriced too from the get go, which didn't help my perception of it at the time. At least when the 3000 was released, that was considered a state of the art, hi-end mainframe machine and was priced competitively with similar computers at the time. Built in FF/SD and you have the makes for one sexy Amiga computing experience. If you're gonna have a computer sitting out on display, may as well make sure she's worth looking at  

[amigakid]

My favorite(s) are the A500 (my first Amiga), 3000 (which I still use with a external SCSI Power Computing Mini Tower 2cd-rw's, 2 SCSI 4 GB HDDs) and the 4000 (which is currently in restoration process.  My least favorite is the Amiga 2500HD and the A600 (although I am still looking for one for my collection), but I think hands down the BIGGEST COMPETITOR FOR WORST AMIGA IS .... Drum ROLL PLEASE THE Amiga 500+.  Another Amiga favorite of mine is the Amiga CD-32 game console which I still play here and there with my daughters.  Cheers!!!

[Franko]

Most: A1200
Least: CD32

I only wish Commodore hadn't screwed up, then we could all be running the best computer in the world with the fabled AAA chipset. (what a waste !!!)

Franko

[Khephren]

Fave: A1200, can add an accelerator and ram, and a HDD. (Mainly)  backwards compatible, true colour mode. And I could afford it!


Worst: A1200. Deliberetly hobbled processor (soldered), not enough ram (soldered again!), had to hack to fit in  3.5" HDD, not advanced enough technically. Same old floppy storage amount as A500.

[6]

I didn't realize that I've been away so long - since January when I sold my 20 year collection of Amiga gear.  In an Amiga funk.  I'm back on Amiga Forever/AmiKit.

In 1990 I decided to find out what kind of computer I could afford.  286's were discounted because of the new 386SX's - only $2000.00!  Macs were, of course much more - I have blotted that out in horror.  They were both capable of.... well, nothing.  Adding numbers, playing script games, etc.  No, there wasn't an etc.

Then I went to a now defunct electronics store in a local mall and saw my first A500.  Holy ####!  $500.00 and it could do EVERYTHING and didn't need a monitor!  I guess your first love is always your favorite.  Over the years I bought 3 more in case it needed parts and they were not available commercially.

I outfitted the 500's with all sorts of fluff.

Then the C= A1200's came out and I bought one, and then an Escom and loaded them up big time.

If I had to choose, I'd pick an outfitted A1200, but that A500 knocked my and everyone I showed it to's eyes out.

I can't choose.

[the_leander]

@ the leander

son now listen up, ya hear, now why are you talkin franken 1200 when what we all wanted to know was your favorite and least favorite Amiga. Stick the subject matter son, you beginning to sound like a MAC fanboy.

smerf

:lol:

Having just watched Gran Turino starring Clint Eastwood, I read the above with his voice saying the words.

Class.

As for why? I was somewhat stuck for a firm fave. The CD32 beat it out in the end, but it wasn't by much. Consider it an honourable mention.

When it ran well, I preferred it over the CD32, the problem is, as others have mentioned, that the harder I pushed the hardware and the more hacks I added, the less stable it became. Which was in the end why the CD32 won out. Even with it's lowly 8Mb expansion and original 020, it was a fine machine that gave me far less issues than the 1200 did.

[zylesea]

The A600 is the ony C= maschine I still own. Technically it was th eleast appealing though (way too late!), but it somehow sums up a lot of the later Amiga history: good, but still wrong decisions. Take for example the PCMIA port: it was rather useless back in the day and became handy years later. But then again the A600 came still with the 7 MHz 68k and ECS only...
What a strange device. But it works and looks cute. I like it. Somehow.

But of course back in the day I was always wanting an A3000T.

[ElPolloDiabl]

The A1200 should be voted lasted because of the crippled 020 (the cheap 24-bit version) and the lack of a simm slot. Punishing cost cutting.

[NovaCoder]

From a aesthetic point-of-view the original 1000 looked great (very Mac like) and the 3000 tried to follow that design.  The 2000/4000 just looked like bland boxes, not very interesting.   Obviously the 500/1200 were a nice design for the budget.

Technically, the original 1000 and 500 were the best.....it was all downhill from there

My personal favorite Amiga's: A1200, CD32, A3000