digital audio recorder

I'm in the market for a digital voice recorder. Currently I am looking for well known brand name in a price range of around $50 - $80. I hope to find one that has a decent recording time and is able to have the audio downloaded to a computer to be edited. You see I want to start making an "audio diary". If anyone can point me in the right direction it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

did you ever purchase one? i'm in the market for one also now. damn school lectures again.

My gf got an Olympus one, a DW-90 I think. Came with a USB cable and you could get the output into WAV. Has two microphone modes, one for up-close and one for lecture mode. Sound seemed ok, UI was vaguely confusing but acceptable.

It's a sample size of one, but hey...

Hugo

hugo, i went ahead and took your recommendation and got an olympus. its a ds-330, which basically is time same execept has more capacity.

now, what would it take to get native DSS file support into the empeg. will that major change w/ filters in version 3 make this capable?