Unless one of our dealer pals is willing to shed some light, we wont know until fall/winter. IMHO- they've got it down to a nice simple lineup. Again, only my opinion, but I think they should drop the 2542 and make the 'beginner' 2500 the 2544 machine. I'm not sure what you could do to the 1000 series machines and still sell them for less then $2K. There's a million choices of machines and manufacturers for the under 2 grand crowd.
Joel