It certainly added a whole lot more cost and complexity. 64 was pretty inexpensive and very open and well known software and circuit wise. If you just wanted

It certainly added a whole lot more cost and complexity. 64 was pretty inexpensive and very open and well known software and circuit wise. If you just wanted to do single task work - the 64 was ready with a flip of the power switch. Then again it depended on what hobby things you were going into; hi-res graphics, music, and especially video. that's where the Amiga had a definite advantages. I would say disk storage Amiga was at a disadvantage (at least until the 600), hard to get basic HDD controllers, floppies sometimes were problematic (this is back in the day where every system had their own proprietary disk format)