I"ve wondered the same thing. I have a Quilter's Edition BabyLock. It's probably 7 or 8 years old. I was looking forward to the auto cutter but after using it a few times it seems to make my thread so short that when I begin stitching again my needle becomes unthreaded. I've seen on TV where numerous ones are using BabyLock machines and never notice their thread end being cut too short. I just said it was probably the magic of TV or it was because they were all using higher ended machine.