In December of 1992, when I purchased my Amiga 1200 HD (40MB) for $1,190 AUD, there was not an IBM compatible PC, Mac, or Atari system that could do what the A1200 did for the same price. I did also buy a memory expansion card with 68882 FPU and 2x4MB SIMMs for $699 at the same time. Memory was not Amiga specific, so it was the same price for adding 8MB to a PC.
Were IBM PC compatibles faster and had better upgrade options than a wedge keyboard case of the A1200? Yes. But all those things came at a cost. I had a couple of friends who had a 486 DX2 66MHz system, with a 2MB graphics card, and sound card, and I/O card (since PC motherboards only came with a DIN socket), and an IDE card. The machine was faster than the A1200, but it cost twice as much as an A1200, and it could only single task.
The library of creative software for the Amiga at the time was beyond what was available for Windows 3.1
All Macs were way more expensive. Always have been. Before 2009, I only ever bought used Macs. A brand new LC was more than twice the price of an A1200. And if you want to compare it to the LC II which is its contemporary, it was about twice the price of an A1200.
Macs had a good library of creative software, but all upgrades and peripherals for Macs were also more expensive than for an Amiga.
In Australia, Atari STs were really only popular with musicians, because of the built-in MIDI and the audio software library. You would see them sold in the stores selling musical instruments.
Since I wasn't made of money at the time, the best value for money was an Amiga 1200 HD.
It wasn't until 1994 that PC prices came down to what I would consider affordable. I built my first PC (Pentium 90 MHz) in late 1995, after Windows 95 came out. About 3 years after I bought the A1200. While it was excellent at playing Doom II, it was still a system which would have challenges in configuring sound drivers for certain games, joystick configuration and calibration issues, and would present IRQ conflicts for expansion boards and I/O ports. _________________
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