I feel really disappointed with my Amiga's lifespan. After over decade of using WinUAE decided to buy my first Amiga model - A600. It was March this year, powered it on like 5 times, because got A1200 in meantime. After getting chipram and fastram upgrades for "Junebug" it appeared that it has that nasty boot with CAPS LOCK on syndrom. It takes several seconds to even respond to reset key combination, then it boots fine from CF. After using it for some time it's impossible to reboot the system - all I get is black screen with caps lock on. I am 90% sure it's capacitors issue. Heard it's pain in the.. neck to replace them in this model
My ESCOM A1200 is probably next to bite the dust. So that questions the satisfaction of owning "the real thing" and the value of Amiga hardware, considering its prices. Is A500 more durable and easier to fix?