The Amiga did spoil me! At the time I got my A1200 I was used to 486s and Windows 3.1. Christ the difference! Though I do remember writing some simple benchmarking tools which showed the PC to be much faster at number crunching and drawing text (naturally enough - it was in DOS mode), but between the Amiga OS and Blitz Basic I found it an awful experience to use any PC. Even nowadays, programming in Visual Studio or simply trying to move some files around, there are things that just don't work, and I have to stop and figure out why because the same techniques used to work on the Amiga.
It also taught me a lot about computer architecture, long before I re-learned the same things in university. The fact that it was so open, so easy to tinker with in both hardware and software, made it a joy to use. Sure, you spend a lot of time rebooting, but that tended to happen a lot back in the Windows 95 days during development too...
