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Maverick (halesk@xmission.xmission.com) wrote:
: : Shheeea!  As if!  I have built 2000 systems that would BLOW AWAY ANY A4000
: : or A3000 system, and is used is EXTREMELY high end video production.....
: : and had to pack out ALL the card slots!  The A2000 was a WONDERFUL piece
: : of work...  C= knew that you guys played MCUH more games than we did and
: : did not use the Amiga for as much PRODUCTIVITY... why do youthink the 
: : A1500 was marketed over there and not here?

: There is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY a 2000 of ANY kind could outperform a 
: 4000-40.  The simple fact that a 2000 has a 16 bit bus would preclude 
: it from running 32 bit bus as in a 4000.  The 3000 was the best Amiga 

G-Force 030 and 040 have a custom 32-bit bus. When used with the 
EGS110/24, you have RAM, Video, SCSI, serial, and parallel all running 
off the 32-bit bus. Cards that don't maximize the bus anyway (1Mbps 
network cards, serial cards, SCSI cards controlling CD-ROM jukeboxes, 
Bridgeboard, A-Max IV, etc.

: design IMHO and you can plug a cyberGFX board into it and have better 
: than a 4000 in many ways.

I agree that the Amiga 3000 is currently the best machine IMHO, also. The 
A2000 with augmentation is no slouch, and VERY cost-effective (because 
people don't realize what you can do with one).

: Even a 1200 will out perform a 2000 for the money.  Sure, spend $1500 
: and you can get your 2000 to almost outdo a 3000, but not quite.

    A2000: $200 - $300
25MHz 030: $400 (with 1MB RAM)

$600 - $800 PLUS you have all those expansion options. Get a USED 
accelerator and you'll pay less and get even more ($400 to $600 for 
A3000 performance). 

A 1200 will run as much as $850 US (there are still companies that charge
this much) and a deal will land you one for $400 maybe, usually around
$485 though. You have no fast RAM, a slow 020, and little expansion
options. You've got a 16-bit PCMCIA (but apply all Zorro II arguments
here) and a SINGLE accelerator slot that is hot (poor circulation), and
very limited in size so a 32-bit video card is out of the question.

People were giving up A1200's for A2000's here a while back. Interesting.

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