Was PCI for Amiga a good choice?

[Rob]

It was absolutely the right choice.  The original Mediator 1200 went on sale at £130 (later £140) and you could go to the high street and get a Voodoo 3 for about £80 and a NIC and sound card for about £10-15 each.  At least double that total for a similar Zorro based set-up.

[Rob]

Really? Then tell me, what's the point of an Amiga with a graphics card, sound card and PPC cpu? Where's the Amiga in that?

I added all of those things to my A1200 over the years and it never felt any less an Amiga for it, if anything, it felt more of an Amiga for being able to add them into the systesm fairly seamlesslly.