not just on that example alone, apologies for lack of context.
with the (somewhat contentious) changes to wifi, all that ware presents a bigger vulnerability than an adept does through his internal magic. with astral perception and a weapon focus, he can actively protect himself that could hurt him, whereas all a street sam can do is hope his firewall holds out or pray that the team's hacker can defend his implants.
The adept qi focuses also give some very nice progression whereas if you've spent 5.9 essence, where does the street sam go from there? he is one datajack away from cyberzombie land.
I'm not moaning at all here, just making an observation based on my (very limited) experience with chargen so far.
In SR4a, a lot of people talked about adepts being underpowered vs street sams, now i think the balance is at least equal if not wieghted in the adept's favour