Hi,
@amigadave
I would get him an Amiga 1200 only as a hobby computer to fool around with, you know get creative, learn programming, etc.
but,
whether we like it or not, PC's are the way of the future, they do most of our government work (now we know why the government is so inefficient) most of our business work (ever wonder why the world is going bankrupt), and most of our new gaming.
The only thing more useless than the Amiga today is the MAC line and the MAC line still has support. Ever wonder how the Amiga would be if it would get support. Maybe I should say more useless than the Atari line.