[Bring_Back_Shantz]

You can get a decent one for a lot less than $2000.
Apple fitness is selling units that can be used in a comercial gym, so they're going to be great, expensive, and way more machine then you'll ever need, as you won't be using it 12 hrs a day.

My best piece of advice is to make sure you put it somewhere conspicuous where you spend a lot of your downtimein the house (right next to the TV). It's a lot easier to ignore it and not work out when it's in the basement, than when you're sitting next to it watching a hockey game.

Also, I assume you meant winter months?

Finally, something you man not have thought of, what about buying a good road bike and a trainer? Its something you can use in the winter indoors, and in the summer you'll have a bike you can use outside.