I recently bought Brother PE770 and would highly recommend it. I did a lot of research here on the QB and on Internet. Seemed to be best buy for the money. Then I checked for best price. Much to my surprise I ended up buying it online at Sears using 20% off coupon and getting free shipping. I just checked the Sears site and they have it for $604 from Overstock.com. Ended up ordered software program from all brands. I also got very lucky and someone on Craigslist was selling several of the larger hoops for $40 total. I found the machine price to be all over the place so do good Internet search for best price!