Macs seemed quite cool at the time, but I never looked at the price. Considering Amigas and Acorn Archimedes were available for a lot less, I now just can't see what made people buy Macs then. The SE/30 was over US$4,000.00!
I love Amigas. I still have two: a 1000 and a 2000HD.
The OS, yes even System 6, was more user-friendly than Workbench. It also looked better. Workbench was made to be compatible with televisions and it shows. Being made with TV output in mind may have helped it find a niche in multimedia but niches are risky sectors to run businesses in.
I don’t think native networking, of any kind whatsoever, was supplied with AmigaOS until version 3. By then Commodore was on its deathbed.
In 1985 you could buy a few Macintoshes, a LaserWriter, some cables, and one large external hard disk drive and someone who had never, ever, touched a computer before could set up multiple desktop publishing workstations, a shared networked printer, and a file server.
This was impossible on the Amiga, and PCs for that matter.