For me Amiga is a combination of a lot of things which make it the best computer ever, not in speed, performance or versatility, but in everything combined:
- the hardware: Amiga is just something different than any other computer, both internal (custom chips) as external (I still find them the prettiest computers ever made - especially the A3000)
- the OS: I still haven't seen an OS which boots so lightning fast from a clean install. And it's so damn easy to work with, too.
- the community: Amiga users were (and still are, albeit in smaller numbers) the most loyal group of users of ANY computer I've ever known. And also the most fanatic (some still are defending their Amiga's against modern day PCs :-) )
- versatility: it seems to me that a lot of PC users use their machines for a few things - either downloading, or making videos, or programming something, while every Amiga user seems to do everything - I mean, almost any Amiga user can tell you something about either coding, doing video stuff etc. They just all seem to be interested in pretty much ANYthing their machines can do.
- the software: to be more precise: the PD scene. We all know that Aminet was THE largest software archive of ALL computers back in the day. And that while there were so much more PCs around. I can't think of any kind of software that hasn't been made for the Amiga. Just name what you want to do - there is Amiga software for it.
I can't really say what THE thing is that attracts me to the Amiga, it just does. I don't know why either...