I'm new to the whole photo taking arena, but I want to take pictures of a trip I have in the winter. Currently I found pretty good deals on these cameras, after looking at flikr using the camera finder I found some amazing photos taken with the sony A300 but none with the XS or S980.
Price wise I found the following:
Canon Rebel XS - $400 12.1MP w/4x optical zoom
Sony Alpha DSLR A300 - $330 10.2MP
Sony Cybershot S980 - $84 10.1MP
Samsung SL620 - $78 12.2MP w/5x optical zoom

I really just want to take photos that look like the ones below, if I could take a photo as beautiful as these with the S980 I'd rather save some money.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ilovelo...za/4054743221/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/albertitoglez/4071297889/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/algo/3007460569/

Photos would probably just be left on my computer

Thanks in advance!