I love the CS6000i - I had one but it was too small for me (I wanted to quilt King size quilts) so I gave it to my niece and nephew. They've had it 2 years and have used and abused that machine and it's STILL going strong. My sister told me they sewed CARDBOARD with it, and it suffered no ill effects. Pretty impressive for such a little machine! I'm going to visit them in a couple weeks and I'm bringing some sewing projects to work on with them - going to bring some new needles too because I'm willing to bet they haven't changed the needle in those 2 years, LOL.