Just my thoughts, on your budget I would simply get a good keyboard controller and start out with softsynths. Softsynths like Zebra, Sylenth, Oresus and many others make nice supersaw sounds.
If you get something like a used Virus, or a new Virus Snow (also in your price range), I think you'll find that this synth alone is not going to be enough to produce a trance track, and that you'd be better off with a powerful PC and investment in a few VSTs. Also VSTs will give you so much exposure to so many different types of synthesis that you'll become adept at synth programming.
Even if you went out and bought a new Virus Ti2 (2 or 3 times what you want to spend), I think you'll find you need more than one of them to complete a decent track.. if the polyphony doesn't do you in (supersaws are expensive processor hogs) the three USB outs will.
I think for trance it is better to start with a DAW/VST based setup, then add a Virus later maybe for leads, etc. At least thats what I wanted to do with it... I ended up returning mine because I could never overcome the latency issues and how much more difficult it was to get it working right compared to a pure VST environment.
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