Well I have found each one of these at various places for under $850 each. I know I could get a lot more cutter with a separate compressor, but I have no possible place to put a decent sized tank and I have read several places about smaller tanks being too small for the plasma machine. I use almost exclusively plate between 1/16 and 1/8 with some 1/4 inch once in a while. The HyperTherm seems to have double the rate of cut speed at roughly the same specs as the other four.
Sounds like you found the machine for you.
