I am a happy owner of the pt200dx and like many did quite a bit of research before buying it. Besides the great price vs blue, what sealed the deal was talking to my Dad who has an older Blue machine. He had it for about 7 years when it quit working and he had to have it repaired. The local rep came and picked the machine up to evaluate it and repair it. After having it a couple day they called and said that they could not fix it in house and would have to send it out for repair and it would $1600 for the repair and take 2-3 weeks. They offered him $500 off the purchase of a new machine if he were to trade it in. He had it repaired as he did not want to spend 3k for a new machine at the time. After hearing that i decided that if I purchased a 200dx and it died the day after the 5 year warrenty was up and I had to buy other I would still be ahead of buying a blue machine. That's my .02
