Which Amiga to get?
Perhaps you used to own an Amiga 500 when you where a kid and you are missing the days of floppy grinding noise while loading a game?
Fear not, many old Amiga computers are out in the second hand market. If all you want is to play some old Amiga games any old Amiga 500 will work perfectly fine, (hopefully), but old floppies are not known to be the most reliable medium, especially Amiga floppies. There is a solution called WHDLoad which can install non installable Amiga games to the harddrive. Most WHDLoad installed games need a slightly beefier Amiga than your old A500, needing harddrive, some extra memory and in some cases a turbo board. Expanding an old Amiga 500 can be expensive, an A1200 is a better option since it has an IDE interface ready for a harddrive and comes with 2 MB memory. Add some extra memory and you will have a perfect retro Amiga.
The A1200 is the best all around solution if you want to add an Amiga to your computer park again. With an Amiga 1200 you can easily add a harddrive, expand it with a turbo board and even add an industry standard PCMCIA network card enabling you to see your SAMBA shares on your home network. And if you feel that your wallet is slightly to fat you can even put your A1200 on the extreme side by converting it into a tower, adding expensive PPC turbo board and graphics board. If only Commodores engineers knew this back in the early 90′ies.