Can't argue with that... we ALL wish they could have made it lighter (but at no price in feel or touch or capability).

But given that it CAN'T (the action alone in a G70 weighs nearly as much as some budget keyboards... the price you pay for having weights in an almost piano sized key), I'm still waiting anxiously for something better to replace it with. There are many newer arrangers with bells and whistles that I really wish that I could have. But I can still stick recordings of the G70 next to state of the art arrangers like the Audya, and have it's MIDI drums compare VERY favorably to the Audya's streaming audio samples, I can put its' piano up to the latest offerings from Yamaha and Korg and have them fall short, I can still edit faster, more comprehensively, and vastly easier on the G70.

Perhaps it is something about this that makes some people here continually bring it up as a comparison to what they prefer?

After all, no-one here would EVER consider that those of us that don't have one continually referring to it could EVER possibly be doing it out of malice, spite or just to get a rise.... After all, there are plenty of PA50, KN's or VA76 users to do that to!

Nope. Must be something memorable to make it all worthwhile..!