If we are going to go off topic: The main drawback was a lack of hard drive and to a lesser extent the 880k floppies. Too much hassle for software companies. That was pre cd-rom era.
Also wouldn't you want to have jumped on the PowerPC bandwagon, but I think that was when C= was almost bankrupt.
@above The Amiga uses co-processors. Printers will have a cpu in them too.
