I totally respect your opinion but have to disagree.
The Amiga is not modern... its a 20+ yr old system, an old system with charm, mind you, that many still love.
Actually, the word modern has two meanings in this context. The meaning that's apparently used most often is 'contemporary'. I should have looked that up
Anyway, what I mean is that the early eighties was more or less the start of the modern computer era. Before that time, computers were usually annoying to use. During the early eighties we saw machines that were nothing more than keyboard shaped boxes which you hooked up to the TV and of you went.
In this sense, todays tower systems are just the same: A box with chips hooked up to a monitor and your done. It's not about the speed, todays machines are simply faster, but the underlying principle of how the machine is used, and that has remained exactly the same.
Do not get performance into this. Take the Cray 1 (super computer from 1976. I think it gave you Pentium II performance for certain tasks. But it's a huge machine (and needs other bits as well, needs a hole room), annoying to use and has a power consumption of 15 kilowatts. This is a typical machine from before the modern computer age. Machines like the C64, Spectrum, and other 8bit systems put an end to this primitive way of doing things. Humongous improvement. After that we only got more of the same (except for laptops, pocket and tablet computers).
Just wanted to make it clear that I didn't mean contemporary or up to date, but being relevant in a certain period of time
