Even if money were no object I would strongly advise against a $1200 semi commercial machine in your home. The fantasy of treating friends to carefully crafted lattes with perfectly poured cafe rosettes turns out to be a pretty clunky reality -- they're noisy, slow, require a lot of calibration, constant cleaning, suck energy, twenty minutes to warm up, espresso grounds get all over your counter, etc. If you look at home-barista or other forums where they're nuts about this stuff, you will see that many if not most folk who buy high end espresso machines do so because they want to make lattes and other milk drinks, but in practice they wind up just making and drinking espresso straight. One reason this happens, is when you dial in the grind (which you'll have to do at least for each new bag, and possibly more often), you wind up having to taste straight espresso, and this is something you develop a fondness for pretty quickly.
I would just short circuit the above process, and get an aeropress (and a hand grinder, or a used grinder from craigslist) and skip the milk.
Please don't consider any pod based system without doing the math on the per serving costs, which are usually shockingly high.