Yeah, I'd have to agree, a hobby. It was my first computer (I had used Univac 1100 and various Vaxen but never actually owned a computer before. Your first computer is a lot like your first love, frozen in time always remembered with fondness.
I sit at the Amiga or UAE, it makes no difference to me, and play old games, play with old software and enjoy the heady days of the late '80s. It's been a dozen years or more since I could do real work on an Amiga, but that's just part of the charm. The Amiga is all play, nothing to put on the CV, nothing to work for one of those Muttly Awards (certifications) we all worship in IT, just a bit of fun!
Seriously, could I do real work on an Amiga? Nope, I'm not patient enough to deal with all the limitations and instability. I have a MacPro that runs circles around the Amiga, that has a full Bash command line and a host of video, audio and image editors on it. I can't figure out how to open the 12 Megapixel raw images on my Amiga and refuse to take the loss associated with JPEG compression. My Amiga can't do HD, can't mix my old (digitised) video with my modern video. In the end I bought Amiga to be cutting edge, and that's why I have my Mac Pro today.
Really life is the same, my first love was a beautiful 16 year old girl with the biggest brightest eyes you could image, who could keep my happy for hours on end, she's now middle aged with 4 kids, drives a people mover, smokes like a coal plant and weighs 20 stone....
