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Originally Posted by ajk
@turrican9
The capacitor issue has nothing to do with build quality; they are soldered in place perfectly fine. It is a question of the early SMD components not being as good long-term. But Commodore could not have known that at the time. They didn't design the A500 to last longer without maintenance, it just happened to turn out that way.
Luckily capacitors are nowhere near the disaster the old RTC backup batteries are...
As far as the RGB output goes I can't say I'd have noticed a significant difference between any of my systems from A1000 to A4000, but it's always possible that some combination of monitor and Amiga don't work so well together.
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You have a point there. Still most chips is socketed in the 500 and soldered to the board on 600/1200. Also, the whole casing on A600/1200 feels more fragile and much cheaper built VS a 500.