smoothies

I'm looking into getting a blender for the sole purpose of making smoothies but I have no idea what to buy, what with all the different brands of blenders and smoothie makers. Do I get the cheapest thing possible, do I get something like say the ~$200 Nutribullet... something in the middle? Seriously, there's crap tonnes of options that range from around $20 all the way to the multi-hundred dollar units. What I'll probably end up doing is what I usually do, get the most no frills unit available. Yep, I'm just that cheap.

As for the smoothies I would make... I'd try and figure out how to do apple pie in a blender. And fruit smoothies, can't really go wrong with those. something like fruit cocktail (seriously, from a can), five alive fruit juice, a banana (because every fruit smoothie recipe I've ever seen has a banana it) and yogurt of some sort (again because that's what goes in a smoothie). Hell, milk and cocoa powder. With a banana.