It took me until 2005 to have a computer I liked nearly as much as the Amiga: I bought a Mac mini running OS X to tinker with and I ended up switching to Mac OS about 9 - 10 months later. It still wasn't the same though.
I think the frustrating thing about the Amiga is how painfully long we had to wait to get all of that stuff again. When I relented and got a PC in the early 1990's, I had to screw with getting a Pro Audio16 (Soundblaster competitor) to work in DOS. You had to mess with jumpers, DMA settings, IRQ settings, conflicts, etc.... All to get stereo sound that the Amiga had in 1987. And the sound produced by the card wasn't even that good! Same with video. PC's were stuck with 256 color VGA for what seemed like an eternity.
Having an Amiga was like being teleported to the future in a time machine and then being cruelly yanked back to the present and being forced to watch people "discover" all of this stuff you had grown accustomed to.
I always described the Amiga experience as "a computer from ten years in the future... then Commodore sat on their thumbs for twenty." Or at least that's what it felt like when I got my A1000 versus abandoning my 1200.
I've been using Macs since the time I put my last Amiga away, and it's never felt as cool as the Amiga did. More useful, much more powerful, but never as flat-out cool.
I'm still waiting for datatypes, and ubiquitous scripting ports that actually get used, and a bunch of other things. These days I tinker with AROS hoping it will eventually get to the point where I can spend part of my day using it properly...
One of the things I love is that I can "boot" the Linux hosted version of AROS straight into a text editor and on my laptop AROS will run through a full boot and start the editor faster than Emacs will start...
I think the frustrating thing about the Amiga is how painfully long we had to wait to get all of that stuff again. When I relented and got a PC in the early 1990's, I had to screw with getting a Pro Audio16 (Soundblaster competitor) to work in DOS. You had to mess with jumpers, DMA settings, IRQ settings, conflicts, etc.... All to get stereo sound that the Amiga had in 1987. And the sound produced by the card wasn't even that good! Same with video. PC's were stuck with 256 color VGA for what seemed like an eternity.
Having an Amiga was like being teleported to the future in a time machine and then being cruelly yanked back to the present and being forced to watch people "discover" all of this stuff you had grown accustomed to.