The discussion related to buying a keyboard for someone just starting out, not a top end pro board. Personally, I think such a keyboard is absurdly INexpensive. Buying a nice PSR-630/730 or 640/740 used on EBAY would, after you consider what you would later get for it, say 2 or 3 years down the road when you'd sell it yourself and move up to something better, be very inexpensive. I'd say 200 or $300 AT MOST. Considering, with built in speakers, that you really wouldn't need anything else for those first years, this is absurdly cheap for such a fun activity. On a "per hour" basis, for anyone actually using their instrument (I play a couple of hours many days a week) the actual "cost" is probably 10 cents an hour, or something absurd like that. One doesn't need a PSR-2000 to start out!