Older machines may lack some of the safety features and refinements present on newer machines.

Although it included many of the today's basic features, the machine lacked any drum suspension and therefore had to be anchored to the floor to prevent "walking".

The Cirrus powered machine had turned out to be both rather underpowered and lacking the control precision of the standard aircraft.

It was then that Wylie realized that Leach and his offensive machine lacked an off switch.

You have a gravitas that the machine lacked.

Yet surely the Computer did not see it that way; the machine lacks the imagination.

The updated machines also lack an optical drive.

The great machine for all its dark magic certainly lacked something in the old imagination department.

Do the great printing machines of The New York Times lack the proper equipment to spell and mark foreign names correctly?

No pretense; machines lacked the personal touch that this archaic crew needed.