Do not be "over " sold .. can what you can really use... and leave alot of that "nice to have , but I won't use it much" stuff aside.
It is soooo easy to get "up" sold on all the amazing things machines can do... It easier when you are trying to learn .. not to have to learn so much about the machine.
My Mom receintly bought a very high end machine, and mind you she has been sewing along time.... its way more machine than she can really handle... and when I visit she is using the older machine with much simpler controls. She says the new machine takes too many steps to do the same thing.