hello, I have futura ce 150 love it, having no problems at all. basic or not if you can embroider with it, that's all it takes to have fun. I am still learning too. sometime all the bells and whishers can make it harder to learn sometime,for me that is.
not sure what the differance is between our two machines are.
have fun sew-friend. flowers coming your way too.

Well if you are satisfied with your machine don't worry what other says. Flower

I have a Simplicity embroidery machine and I am satisfied. I agree that some of the more expensive machines have too many things on them. If you like what you have that is the important thing. Here's a flower for you.

I still have my Scan. 300. It did beautiful stitching. But I really like the ability to see the screen with the information on my SE

gabribid, I too have a Futura CE 200, and I really enjoyed embroidering with it, although I only use it as a sewing machine now. The Singer is good, but I bought a Janome because I couldn't do anything else on my computer while I was embroidering with the Singer, despite having a very fast computer, I also do digital scrapbooking which takes heaps of memory, and my computer couldn't cope with the two at once!!! (I never do one thing at a time). Enjoy that Futura and flowers and hugs to you.