Good luck in your decision...I made one many yrs ago....before computerized.....and still have my APQS......but, if I were to replace, I think I would go Innova....JMHO.....oh, and yes, I think I would also jump onto the computer bandwagon...for the days "I can't sew a straight line if you paid me!" As an aside.....I understand, and this maybe just urban legend, the stapler system was invented by mr statler for his wife who wanted to longarm, but because of some physical disability could not, and he was a computer person.......and the story goes.........