Recommend a camcorder for me

Hi
I am looking for a simple camcorder to use with imovie 08 and a macbook alu. It's primarily to be used to make small video clips for our website so I don't need anything super flash or complicated. Any recommendations would be welcome (budget up to €400 in euroland) Thanks
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