If you're wife is going to be making clothes with her machine, then I would definitely by a new computerized machine for the variety of stitches, buttonholes, sewing zippers, etc. I have been looking at Juki sewing machines on the allbrands.com website. They have a couple of Juki models that are marked down a lot and have a lot of features. Just another suggestion. BTW, I recently bought a Juki serger from allbrands.com and that is a great little machine. They also sell factory re-conditioned machines which are marked down as well.