Update: Thanks for all the advice. My sister has a Brother 3129, Simplicity series that she loves. So I did some research and Consumer Digest, I think it was, ranks it as one of the best computerized machines. I'm thinking that this machine has what I want, at $450-ish it does have a needle up/down which I really want. I'm not as concerned with the low bobbin indicator, my current machine has a clear window, I guess I need to pay attention to that more. I do have another question. I'm a little leery about the cost if anything were to go wrong on a computerized machine, seems it might be expensive to repair. Or do they not have computer related issues much? Does anyone have the Brother/Simplicity 3129? Or another of the Brother/Simplicity series models? How do you like it?
Kelly~