Amiga 600 the worst?

[mrmoonlight]

Hi,i have just read an old post that said,according to Amiga CU magazine, the Amiga 600 is the worst Amiga model that you can buy.
Now whys that then ? as its the first one I turn on in a morning and I have five to choose from but the A600 does its job very well
as in
1 It will surf the net all day as long as I keep the colour down a little
2 It will play wav pop music all day and multitask very well at the same time'
3 It will play Games until the cows come home .
4 It will paint,Draw and more than amuse me.
so is there more ?
best wishes Brian.
 
 

[Minuous]

It was the low-end member of the Amiga range for a while, so I suppose it was "the worst Amiga model that you can buy" new at that time. The same could have been said of the A500, A500+, A1200, etc. at other times.

But certainly a decent machine. The worst Amiga in terms of capabilities would be the A1000. In terms of price/performance, I would propose the A2000: an extra thousand or two dollars (compared to A500) basically just for a few card slots.

[KimmoK]

-A600 is harder to expand than most other Amiga variants. (CPU, fast RAM)
-It's the least compatible with non AGA games
-it does not have numeric keypad

+it does have HDD interface as standard
+you can easily have 2MB chip ram with it
+it's small
+it can do flixer free hires
+it's compact, no tv-modulator needed

I like A600, also I have one, but A1200 is the ultimate low end classic Amiga (I want one).

[mrmoonlight]

-A600 is harder to expand than most other Amiga variants. (CPU, fast RAM)
-It's the least compatible with non AGA games
-it does not have numeric keypad

+it does have HDD interface as standard
+you can easily have 2MB chip ram with it
+it's small
+it can do flixer free hires
+it's compact, no tv-modulator needed

I like A600, also I have one, but A1200 is the ultimate low end classic Amiga (I want one).

HI, thanks for reply  and I agree with all that you wrote,infact it nearly has it all,and I have the A1200 as well but the Amiga 600 is the one that gives me the greatest joy as in small and beautifully put together and even goes on holiday with me,simply the best best wishes Brian.

[mrmoonlight]

It was the low-end member of the Amiga range for a while, so I suppose it was "the worst Amiga model that you can buy" new at that time. The same could have been said of the A500, A500+, A1200, etc. at other times.

But certainly a decent machine. The worst Amiga in terms of capabilities would be the A1000. In terms of price/performance, I would propose the A2000: an extra thousand or two dollars (compared to A500) basically just for a few card slots.

 Hi thanks for reply seems A600 not so bad as first thought then but there again I never doubted the capabilities of this beauty, and interesting reading my friend best wishes Brian.

[mfilos]

Good thing that there are many RAM Expansions/Accelerators these days for A600 that makes other Amigas watch with envy
A600 is an awesome Amiga and despite being rather crappy back in the days due to the reasons that KimmoK explained, nowadays is the best imho.

A nice setup @ 8 colors is blazingly fast for Workbench and via WHDLoad, there is no incompatibilities with old games. Hard drives or CF disks are awesome and cheap as most expansions these days for the A600.

[Kesa]

It was the low-end member of the Amiga range for a while, so I suppose it was "the worst Amiga model that you can buy" new at that time. The same could have been said of the A500, A500+, A1200, etc. at other times.

But certainly a decent machine. The worst Amiga in terms of capabilities would be the A1000. In terms of price/performance, I would propose the A2000: an extra thousand or two dollars (compared to A500) basically just for a few card slots.

Why did the A2000 cost so much more than everything else? I have always wondered about this because as you said it offers nothing more than a few extra slots...

I'm guessing it's because chickenhead was trying to make a profit so they marked up the price? Or maybe the A2000 price was right but the wedgies were under priced? Maybe it is because of the better PSU?

[AmiDude]

There's another +:
+ PCMCIA slot. Very handy for data transfer between PC/Amiga
and you can also use it for 2mb or 4MB SRAM FastRAM expansions
without opening the A600 case.

[pVC]

It was the low-end member of the Amiga range for a while, so I suppose it was "the worst Amiga model that you can buy" new at that time. The same could have been said of the A500, A500+, A1200, etc. at other times.

It wasn't that much better (or at least more powerful) than A500, but way less compatible. Many of the old games failed to run on it and I guess that's why it's been said as the worst model. It's quite clear from gamer's perspective, especially before there was anything like WHDLoad and decent upgrades to A600. Many games also had keyboard shortcuts to numpad, which was missing on A600. So, in any case, you lose compatibility with old games and won't get any new games either (like you get AGA games on A1200).

And for productivity use it's was slightly better than A500 (IDE, PCMCIA, newer OS), but then again, it didn't have better CPU or enough memory to be really that much better. And at that time there wasn't drivers for PCMCIA network cards etc, so PCMCIA was quite useless at first.

A1200 on the other hand was much better on all those areas, with new AGA chipset and all.

These are the points why I also consider A600 as one of the most useless Amigas around, if I'd have to pick one. No matter how cute it is :/ A1000 would compete for that title too. I think even A1000 is more compatible with the games than A600, but worse in productivity use.. so it depends which is given more weigth.

But of course you can get it more useful with accelerators and PCMCIA stuff nowadays, but then again, A1200 will still be better for features and compatibility.

[Iggy]

Frankly, the A2000 is one of our current best buys.
They are bullet proof (except, of course, for the battery) and can still be found cheaply.
I just put a $50 passive ISA PC SBC in mine to use dual purpose with Windows.

[Tenacious]

...I just put a $50 passive ISA PC SBC in mine to use dual purpose with Windows.

Iggy, could you give details about this?

Nice screen shots Mr Moonlight.  I have always enjoyed the portability of the A600s.  

[Darth_X]

Iggy, could you give details about this?

Me too!

[mrmoonlight]

Me too!

And me too as it sounds interesting

[Iggy]

Not as interesting as it sounds guys.
Its just a VIA based SBC that does occupies an ISA slot, but provides all its own functionality.
So I am using separate monitors, keyboards, and mice until I figure out the needed adapters and switches to unify those.

Plus most of my other Windows hardware runs circles around it (even my Atom based laptop).

[amiman99]

...
I just put a $50 passive ISA PC SBC in mine to use dual purpose with Windows.

I did that too: http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=68952&highlight=sbc