My Janome Magnolia 7330 has a start/stop button. When you want to use it all you have to do is unplug the foot pedal from the machine & then use the start/stop button instead. My machine cost me $329 in 2009 & I bought it at a quilt shop. I think they are more expensive now but maybe you could find a display model with a discount. It also has a control speed slide so you can slow down the speed of the machine if you want. I think that would be very useful, especially while you were getting use to using the start/stop button.