Cheap (under $50 US) webcam for Skype

I need to find a fairly cheap webcam for my mother-in-law to use for Skype, and since it is for Christmas use, it needs to be something that any big box retailer would carry. She has a 4-year old Dell consumer laptop running Vista 32-bit and a cellular modem. She has medium to low lighting in her house.

I've looked at the Dynex DXWEB-1C (a Creative model sold at Best Buy apparently) and the Creative Live IM. Comments on these or alternatives are welcome.

She has a Logitech, but it is giving her grief (horrible static instead of voice when she uses the built-in mic with video: it can work as a mic with no video or a webcam without sound, but running both will not work for her).

Thanks for your help.

 

Yeah, if she's on dial-up the video nor audio is gonna look/sound too good.

Forget about an HD webcam...I have the following and it works well enough for me.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16826105217&cm_re=vx_5000-_-26-105-217-_-Product

 

Thanks. That looks good for her setup.

 

I bought Logitech C310 from eBay for $30. It works great and can record HD 720p video. Check it out. If the connection is slow, simply lower the resolution. On that note, I simply don't see how the video chat (unless the image is a size of my avatar) will ever work across a dial-up connection (its what 56k?).

 

I think she's on a 3G network.