You are right; the Viking mega quilter is a great machine to work with. I've had mine for a year and haven't used it up to it's full potential yet. I bought a Ruby this past weekend and was offered 500 for my mega quilter for a trade in but just couldn't see losing so much money in a yr espcially since I hadn't used it much. It was worth that much to keep it. It's a great machine.
the 9in mega quilter starts out around 1000 and there is also an 18in one but I don't know the price.