The PC1512 was sold at a price of £499 (£1,450 in 2019) and was delivered along with a monochrome CGA monitor, 512 KB of memory and an Intel 8086 processor which ran on 8 MHz. The diskette station of this Amstrad is 360 KB; or 'double density', a technique used to increase the storage capacity by twice as much. There were also options to expand the PC1512 with a 10 or 20 MB hard disk. There was also an expansion available for a 1.2 MB 5,25" FDD.

The PC1512 was sold by Amstrad themselves in the United Kingdom; though, in countries such as Germany and the Netherlands, sales were done by the Schneider company.

An interesting fact about the Amstrad/Schneider is that the power supply is located in the monitor, though this could also be done otherwise. There is also a volume knob for the PC's speakers, something which not a lot of systems had at the time.