Yes, this. My housemate had a 1000. It was by far the best video game console of it's era, and a few after that. As a general productivity computer, not so much. Serious lack of good software and some strange decisions by Commodore. I think the largest mistake was a lack of an internal hard drive. Sure you could buy an external, but at the time we were so new to computing we did not know we needed one and they were half the price of the base computer...
They were good for high end graphics and video of that era but I think SGI quickly caught up and surpassed them there. The other bit about Amiga that seems to be forgotten, just how proprietary the hardware was. We had a floppy drive go out and, to this day it remains as one of the more difficult to get to parts of all the computers I have had to crack open to replace a part in.
They were good for high end graphics and video of that era but I think SGI quickly caught up and surpassed them there. The other bit about Amiga that seems to be forgotten, just how proprietary the hardware was. We had a floppy drive go out and, to this day it remains as one of the more difficult to get to parts of all the computers I have had to crack open to replace a part in.