Thanks for the answers - as I stated, I went with the G2 - played with it last night and had loads of fun - lots of configurations to play with in the future. Liked the simple, single USB interface and the included controller is not as bad as I had expected. I had planned to hook up my HiTech Eclipse, but the included controller has enough features to make that not necessary.

Look forward to exploring the G2 over the next few weeks (while flying my NexSTAR for real on the weekends)!