Please guide me to the least expensive camcorder that will upload to iMovie

Please help. I'm lost. I have a MacBook Pro with iMovie. I'm going on a fishing trip and want the least expensive camcorder I can find which will allow me to upload the movies to my Mac and edit them with iMovie.
Thanks for specific suggestions!!!!

I know a friend of mine bought a small memory card camcorder. I'm not sure what she payed but it was pretty cheap (low $100s). I think she bought it on ebay so I would check there. Here is a list of the recommended / supported camcorders (according to apple)
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1014
In light of this I believe that almost any memory card camcorder would work (memory chips are pretty standard and there is always the option of a card reader).
I hope this helps,
-Hooked

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