Any machine knitters willing to give a technical opinion?

[Warpy]

3. I played around with a cheapo machine that would do stockinette and that's it.

While it was easy to set tension and fun to see 13 inches of stockinette appear in an hour or so, I found the noise is what put me off. I sold it years ago because of that. I've seen expensive machines with ribbers and other attachments and they're noisy, too, so I pick up my circs and do it the old fashioned way, although temporarily not at all since my hands are all swollen and sore with RA.

Besides, you can't take a knitting machine to a doctor's waiting room but my circs go everywhere.