I got the Brother ULT2003D and I am thrilled with it. My service tech said it was the cleanest machine she's ever had to look at! Apparently the previous owner did very little embroidery with it. It only had 57,000 stitch count on the embroidery! My 770II has 10 times that many and probably more. Anyway, I ended up paying $600 for it and it came with all the hoops and a ton of stabilizer and all kinds of extra little do dads. I bought a floppy external drive and a box of diskettes (haven't used that yet). She gave me about 50 diskettes with designs also. The only part I had to get was the embroidery foot (I think that is funny!). It sews so nice and smooth and I'm in love with it. My Ultimate card works just fine. I think I'm going to be very happy with this machine. I hate to sell my 770II because I love it too but I have enough machines!