I was looking at getting a digital photo frame for my grandparents so that they could have a lot of pictures of their grand kids to look at without having a ton frames laid everywhere. You could spend $200 and get one with some internal memory but that only gets you about 256 MB which is ok, but not that great . I can get a SD Card with 1GB for less than $30 and this gives the opportunity to send them updated cards with level involvement on their part.You defintely want to make sure that you have enough computer memory so that when adding the pictures to your PC that it will be able to handle the load. It will be great to see their expression when the family pics show up on the frame.