Reply to Maschine usefulness in ableton

So Im building up my studio setup and believeing about picking up the maschine.

My question is, if my main DAW is ableton then do you believe maschine is worth the money? I realize that the samples will be useful as well as the control surface and I know it is integrated but how tightly?

Hardware wise I can find something much cheaper to accomplish the same tasks.

Basically, is it worth the money to pick up maschine to accompany ableton or is it so highly priced because they are pushing their own DAW (which I won't be using)

Also, anyone that is using maschine with ableton please let me know your thoughts.

Thanks