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I'm looking for an easy to use point-and-shooter, but I can't quite afford the T2 (as nice as not every having to worry about memory cards would be). Any suggestions for something in the under-$200 price range?]]>Dec 17th 2007 5:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/Dec 17th 2007 5:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/Dec 17th 2007 6:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/
Instead, I'd say to take a look at the Sony W90. You might have to look around to get it for under $200, but its a really nice, stylish camera. Costco has it for $200.]]>Dec 17th 2007 6:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/Dec 17th 2007 7:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/Dec 17th 2007 8:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/Dec 17th 2007 8:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/Dec 17th 2007 10:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/Dec 17th 2007 10:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?dest=9999999997&product_id=6528325&sourceid=22737466602582118136

I hope this helps. ]]>Dec 18th 2007 6:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/It is sort of big, but it's very good. ]]>Dec 18th 2007 6:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/Dec 17th 2007 5:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/
It's perfect for moms.]]>Dec 17th 2007 5:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/Dec 17th 2007 5:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/Dec 18th 2007 12:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/Dec 17th 2007 5:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/Dec 17th 2007 5:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/Dec 17th 2007 7:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/Dec 17th 2007 7:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/Dec 17th 2007 10:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/
But I'm surprised you guys didn't mention the centro, it's a good simple phone and attractive enough that mothers would use it.]]>Dec 17th 2007 5:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/
I'm trying to get rid of windoze, but it's just too hard because of the older ones of the family]]>Dec 17th 2007 5:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/It's easy. Just start before your mom has a computer. Buy her a computer, Install Linux on it. Show her how to use it. Most distros you might be considering for a mom-pc aren't really any harder to work with than Windows -- they're just different. If her first PC runs Linux, she'll think that's normal, and have no Linux-specific troubles.]]>Dec 17th 2007 6:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/
And that is that i'm Mexican, American like to buy even sooner than us :-|]]>Dec 17th 2007 5:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/Dec 17th 2007 7:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/Dec 17th 2007 6:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/Dec 17th 2007 6:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/Dec 17th 2007 7:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/Dec 17th 2007 10:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/Dec 17th 2007 6:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/Dec 17th 2007 6:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/Dec 17th 2007 11:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/Dec 17th 2007 6:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/Dec 17th 2007 6:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/Dec 17th 2007 6:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/Powerbooks are the old models.]]>Dec 17th 2007 7:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/Dec 17th 2007 6:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/Dec 18th 2007 8:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/
The new ones are pretty great, and most people I hear have been raving about them. But of course, iPods and iPhones will always dominate these 'gift guides'. But I think Zunes pretty worthy enough to put up on one of these gift guides.

Though I can't help but notice 3 Apple items listed already...]]>Dec 17th 2007 6:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/Dec 17th 2007 7:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/
Yeah that "Engadget staff" sure is biased!!! ]]>Dec 17th 2007 7:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/Wow, you weren't kidding! He MUST work for micro$oft. Do they hire people just to post on blogs to promote their products? That would be a pretty sweet job actually...

@Michael:
How do I get your job?!]]>Dec 17th 2007 7:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/
I can ask the same for you. Does Apple pay many Apple fanboys to go around PC articles and suggest they 'buy a Mac'? Or are those jot cleverly designed bots? Because I find a LOT on the internet for a not so big community. It's like everytime somebody has this small PC problem, they immediately suggest a Mac. It's SO annoying.

FYI: Believe it or not, I actually use a Mac and a PC. It's true. There are things I like about OS X, and things I love about Vista. I actually have a life you know.

I was just pointing the # of Apple items, because as usual, they're dropped into these gift guides a lot, when there's obviously other things to consider.]]>Dec 17th 2007 7:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/

Dude you're so painfully obvious...at least have different screen names...]]>Dec 17th 2007 8:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/
I agree there are much better things than Apple's, but Microsoft's are not these things...]]>Dec 17th 2007 8:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/
I would consider myself a MS fanboy with an open mind. I mean I love vista, have my own 80GB zune (engraved of course), use windows mobile, and im writting this post in IE7. But come on...all this guys has ever posted about is how much he loves everything about microsoft! I mean EVERY single post of his is how Vista is Great on his sony (hehe...i have vista on my sony...and it sucks, vista only weeks magic on my 5K home built machine), Live Maps are better than google maps, MSN video is great...blah blah blah.

I have to agree with the other poster that this guy has to work for microsoft...and to be honest, its people like him that just ruin these sites.

Yeah, engadget is somewhat baised towards apple, but they do still report on the zune and all. People like michael should be banned from posting...just the same as apple only posters should be banned.

All that said...I love my Zune! :D]]>Dec 17th 2007 9:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/]]>Dec 17th 2007 9:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/
Overall, I prefer going to Vista, or Windows to be particular, over OS X, because I still kind of like the way it operates better. It's not uncommon.

@West Hubbard: Dude, I'm exactly the same here. I admit, I do get overboard with some of what I say, but you should really see how some Apple/other fans will say ANYTHING, even if it's not true, to make a point. At least what I say is considered true.

I really do think Vista works well on my Vaio. For real. I have several friends too with Vaio computers, and those who have Vista say it runs well. Maybe its just you. Users have different opinions. I think Live Maps does a bit better in the area of imagery than Gmaps, but I like Gmaps for other stuff as well. Personally, I don't really like MSN Video that much, it used to be good, but there's too many ads now. But there were some other things I liked about it too. So I'm a half n' half. Besides, its rather nosy to poke into peoples' comment streams. I mean, you must have a life, right? No offense, but there's better things to do than to check a commenter's comments.

@BigPana: Of course you've never heard of them, you have a strong dislike for all thing MS, while me, being open minded, knows a lot about whats available out there. I prefer that.]]>Dec 18th 2007 1:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/
Ok, I think you got me all wrong. No, I do not work for MS. Same as most Apple fanboys, don't all work for Apple (though sometimes you have to wonder...), and all other fanboys aren't deeply affiliated at all with what they like. In fact, I'm quite sure MS employees don't even use all things MS. I read things across the blogosphere, and I know that. And I don't even consider myself a fanboy, I just simply post whatever I think I like is right.

And there's never anything at all I can find in my comments that is completely untrue. As far as I know, I state FACTS, and NOT lies. You can't say the same for others.

My point is, is that comment was meant to say that with the Zune winning many people over, I'm quite surprised that I really didn't see that on any of the guides, and I thought that was rather strange.So I just merely pointed that out. Sheesh, that's all my original message meant. So don't call me a shrill when I'm not. ]]>Dec 18th 2007 1:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/17/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-mom/only because he s pointing the finger on the many apple products? you've got to admitt, there ar pretty many of'em. shure enough i'm no win freak (nor an appleist) but still, i think it don't always has to be apple to be good]]>Dec 18th 2007 2:49PM