Don’t get me wrong, Amiga OS was great, but its greatness was in part due to the bang for the buck Commodore delivered, e.g. you could almost purchase an entire Amiga 500 for the price of a 16 color ISA card…and have more than four times the pixels with overscan and ten more bits of color depth in HAM mode.
Let's not forget the apps, either. It was a long time before anything comparable to Caligari or NewTek's Video Toaster (required an outboard interface, but the Amiga's NTSC-compatible video made that cheaper than it would have been otherwise) were running on the Mac or PC. If we had the ease of multimedia distribution then that we have today, desktop video rather than desktop publishing might have been the driver, and the personal computer landscape might look a lot different today.
Don’t get me wrong, Amiga OS was great, but its greatness was in part due to the bang for the buck Commodore delivered, e.g. you could almost purchase an entire Amiga 500 for the price of a 16 color ISA card…and have more than four times the pixels with overscan and ten more bits of color depth in HAM mode.