One more thing is that you have to educate yourself on how the machine is going to read the files that you buy. How the machine is going to communicate with the computer.
I got a Brother PE700, which is a great machine. It has many built in designs and that was great for maybe 3 days. After using it for a while I wanted more. I went on-line and saw a lot of designs I liked, but no way to bring them to the machine. I later found out that I needed a new piece of hardware called PED basic. This connects to your computer and you put the desings ina card, which I later put into my machine and the machine reads it. That was another $130.00, plus the cost of each individual pattern, which is not a whole lot.
My friend has a viking and she can save the desing into a 3.5 disk and put it directly into the machine.
Please make sure you get all the information from your dealer before you get home and find out that you have a good machine, but you need more.
Maria