You need, also, to consider how much embroidery you might be doing-size, etc. Janome has a great little embroidery only machine, the 350e, I think that's the name. It does 4x4 and 5x7 and is very easy to work with (I had a 300 before I upgraded to the Baby Lock Ellisimo Gold (which I really like). If you think you might want to do some of the really large embroideries (like the back of a shirt), you should really look at one of the top of the line Bernina's as they will do very large areas. My Baby Lock will sew out an 8x12, I felt the Bernina was just too costly and much more "complicated" to operate, at least for me.