Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cwjcc!gatech!psuvax1!psuvm!uh2 From: UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: buying Amiga - need advice please Message-ID: <89223.093334UH2@PSUVM> Date: 11 Aug 89 13:33:34 GMT References: <10619@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <879DISPATCH@NCSUVM> Organization: Penn State University - Center for Academic Computing Lines: 25 The short guide to th Amiga. Amiga 1000 -- The original, no longer manufactured. Still a very good machine. Can be found used for around $500. Fairly expandable, but some of the newest hardware would require an external expansion box. Amiga 2000 -- Pretty much the same machine as the 1000, but with expansion slots internal. Some big differences, though. It will hold an msdos clone (called the BridgeCard) internally. More expensive, but cheaper to expand to more memory, hard disk, etc. Amiga 500 -- Again, pretty much the same machine as the 1000, but in a smaller box. Lower priced because it is cheaper to manufacture. Current events 1. The latest version of the 2000 (and the 500?) have new, enhanced graphics hardware, that expands the *graphics* memory from 512K to 1024K. It looks and acts exactly the same, but you can multi-task more. 2. High end models such as the 2500 now exist. They sport faster hardware that puts them in the Mac II/SUN/NeXT league, and cost more. 3. A new version of the software, probably labeled 1.4, will come out maybe next year. You don't have to wait for it.