BRAND NEW..SOME ONE HELP ME OUT PLEASE!!!

WHAT THA DEAL...
I BEEN PRODUCIN HIP-HOP FOR ABOUT 2 YEARS NOW USING MOSTLY COMPUTER BASED SOFTWARE LIKE REASON 2.5, AND FRUITY LOOPS...THEY ARE ALRIGHT..BUT I REALLY LIKE THE HAND ON APPROACH OF THE AKAI...I HAVE BEEN RESEARCHIN AND DREAMING OF BUYING ONE FOR LIKE 3 YEARS NOW...I FINALLY GOT THE MONEY READY AND AM NOW STUCK AT DESCIDING WHAT EXACTLY TO BUY...HERE ARE MY QUESTIONS
1.WHICH WOULD BE BETTER A 2000XL OR A 1000? I REALLY WANT TO STOP USING ALL THIS COMPUTER SOFTWARE AND START STRICTLY USING THE MPC...AND LATER BUY SOME TURNTABLE,MIXER AND A RECORDER...
2.IS THE MPC ALL I WILL NEED? MY CURRENT BUDGET IS ONLY ENOUGH TO BUY EITHER AN MPC 2000 OR AN MPC 1000 SO I WONT BE ABLE TO BUY ANY AMPS,SPEAKERS,RECORDERS.MIXER..ETC OR ANY ADDITIONAL HARDWARE....WILL I BE ABLE TO USE MY AKAI MPC TO MAKE BEATS WITH JUST THE MPC ITSELF AND MY NORMAL HOUSE STERO SYSTEM(WITH RCA JACK) OR WILL I NEED 2 BUT ADDITIONAL HARDWARE
3.MY LAST QUESTION IS HOW TO I RECORD MY BEATS FROM THE AKAI TO MY COMPUTER OR CD OR WHATEVER?...WILL I NEED 2 BUY A RECORDER?
I KNOW THESE ARE PROBABLY STUPID QUESTIONS..BUT ANY HELP WOULD BE APPRECIATED..THANKS

I'd say. go with 2000xl

But remember you'll have to buy other things: cables,ram..etc etc

WELL HERES THA THING...MY BOY IS SELLIN AN MPC 2000 XL WITH 32MB RAM AND A ZIP DRIVE FOR THE SAME PRICE AS THE MPC1000 AROUND $850... DO YOU THINK THAT WOULD BE BETTER THAN BUYING A NEW MPC 1000?

ALSO WHAT ELSE WILL I NEED BESIDES THE MPC?..
SOMONE LET ME KNOW..THANKS
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the only essentials i can think of are: proper cables (to mixer, to whatever), some zip disks, a zip drive for your pc (to transfer samples)

and yes that is a very good deal IMO...