Brother Brother PE700II Review

The Brother PE700II is my second embroidery machine and I wanted it for three reasons: 1. affordable price  2. the ability to hook to the computer to get designs online and download them for use straight into the embroidery machine without extra software  and 3. a larger size embroidery space. I find it has accomplished all of these goals , plus being easy to operate and with a manuel that has good explanations - if you take the time to read them. I did notice in some sites that offered complaints about them - that if they had just throughly read their manuel they would have found the answer to what They were doing wrong, as sometimes a machine is only as good as the operator will let it be. My only "con" would be IF I ever need assistance I do not have a Brother dealship near me and would have to make over an hours travel . In my real life scenerio she does exactly what I hoped for without any problems and I am very proud to own my Brother PE700II embroidery machine. This is a stand alone embroidery machine - BUT - that is EXACTLY what I wanted - because I like to be able to sew on my other machine when I am embroidering on extensive embroidery designs - plus, so far she has accepted ANY brand of embroidery threads I have thrown at her without any hesitation.