What is Amiga's Purpose currently???

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In my case, hobby. It's fun to tinker and play around with hardware, different Amiga models and accelerator/expansion cards, and configuring all of that within the OS. Classic gaming is also a big part of the overall fun factor.

As far as competing with the current standards and generally the technology that's available out there...Amiga is far behind and overpriced, but it's still fun to use it and play around with, if anything just for sheer kicks, no matter what.

My 2 cents. :-)

EDIT: The biggest problem with modern Amiga is the lack of software however. It lacks applications that we all require for daily use. A good example of a lacking application would be a decent web-browser.

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@dillinger:

"Amiga Tech" still produced classic Amigas, such as the A1200 Magic Pack and A4000T systems. Well...maybe not so much produced as re-used Commodore leftover stock.

"Amiga Inc." is the current official owner of the trademark(s). They sold a license to a 3rd party company called Eyetech which is responsible for the new AmigaOne units.

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No doubt about it that Amiga Tech didn't bring anything new to the users other than continue releasing old stuff, however, bless them for re-releasing the A4000T, as C= only managed to sell/manufacture about 300 complete systems before going bankrupt.