A1200 bare system £276 https://archive.org/details/cuamiga-magazine-050/page/n28/mo...
4-8MB fast ram £200-400 https://archive.org/details/cuamiga-magazine-050/page/n49/mo...
340MB £380 pounds https://archive.org/details/cuamiga-magazine-050/page/n28/mo...
14 multisync monitor ~£320 https://archive.org/details/cuamiga-magazine-050/page/n52/mo...
~£1200-1400. 1994 £/$ exchange rate 1.55 = $1860-2170. To quote a classic I feel like Im taking crazy pills.
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486dx2-66mhz, 256KB cache, 8MB, 1.44MB fdd, 350MB HDD, SVGA monitor/card, keyboard/mouse. $1840
It feels like I've heard so many Amiga users say that they finally broke down and jumped ship when Doom and the DX2/66 dropped. It really was a gamechanger. Before then it was possible to argue that a '040 Amiga 4000 still held its own against a DX/33 or maybe even a DX/50, but not this.
There were a lot of things that came together to kill the Amiga, mostly Commodore's mismanagement, mismarketing and complacency, but as the final blow to it being a viable computer with a future in the eyes of consumers, I feel like the DX2/66 was it. It would have killed the Mac too if Apple hadn't woken up to smell the coffee a few years prior and had Power Macs ready to go.
Has never been common on Amiga 500.
Perhaps you mean 512k SLOW RAM Extension.
Or CHIP RAM (after a motherboard solder-jumper adjustment) with the ECS Agnus common in late A500 models.
Early 1990s me would have been more than happy with that.
I was happy with 5 fps or less on the gameboy with Faceball 2000.