I think it's great that, on this board, we can respectfully disagree with one another! Some of us like vintage, others like brand-spanking-new $10,000 models, and hey, we even let the hand-quilters speak their minds (LOL). Since nobody has actually seen this machine yet, and won't until -next year, I think? - maybe we should stop bashing the poor little thing now! I'm going to take the wait-and-see approach!