Bachus my point is that the PA700 is not superior to the PA1000 in any way. I agree that there were meaningful improvements from the PA600 / PA900 generation, to the current generation (except I'm not sure that the keybed was changed or improved.)

If the feature set of the PA700 doesn't meet the original poster's needs, then he should be looking at a PA1000, not a PA900. My $.02.