I'd say that the A600gs and A1200ng don't feel like Amigas to me as they focus on a more "packaged" approach than other, to me, Amiga-esque approaches.
I'm then thinking of the launcher approach that they've gone for.
The machines can probably be set to boot to a WB, or from floppy? I don't know, haven't paid too close attention to them to be honest.
Having said that, I have no problem understanding that this is exactly an appealing proposition to some.
It's a professionally packaged product in the right form factor that gives you real quality of life convenience if you just want to spend some time in a tracker, paint package or kick some Sensible soccer.
But then to me who loves the tinkering side of it, if I want that kind of deal I go for the Mister based solutions.
So after all, this means that it's good that prospective amiga punters have options. More now than in a very long time.
Not everything is for everyone. Back in the 90s infighting between Amiga fanbois was still a thing. Did you buy the Apollo accelerator?? Nimwit, it's not the most powerful, go Phase 5! Did you buy a Blizzard, a fool and his money... What?? You've tampered with the sacred machines, you've put the evil Apple CPUs in your machines, you're fracturing the scene!!
More hardware mostly means more users I hope, not only hoarders. And more hardware and users hopefully means more software and lively community.
Now, back to the AmigaKit products, I worry that if old Amigans come back and have a shipping problem or a "Monday machine" that they'll quickly sour on the Amiga if they give their usual level of service to a returning user on what's probable a at least 500 EUR purchase if they need case and keyboard too new. I get that most sensible adults would rather buy something 2026 new with quality of life additions (hdmi, usb hid, SD, etc) when getting back.
Myself, I took the same route as many here. Bought what I had back in the 90s, tinkered and fickled until I had it working with a LCD.
When the new came, I embraced it, because I had been sweating over the Indivision profiles, finding the right old keyboard and mouse for the adapter that just wouldn't work just right. And then the caps and related issues that gives the spurious Guru Meditations that you're not quite sure if is because you've got a aging motherboard or if you've got an over ambitious WB install with just one too many patches...
