Minolta MC/MD on DSLR?

I have a Minolta X-700 and a box of lenses with it that i would like to use with a digital camera. I have been doing research on the web and found an adapter that allows me to use my lenses with a canon or Nikon dslr using what looks like poor optics to make focusing to infinity possible. My funds are low and therefore I have to stick with the kit lens on the camera I buy. Another possibility would be to get a Sony Nex with an adapter since its mirror-less. Should I just suck it up and deal with the kit lens, or is the adapter worth it? Any advice would be helpful.

MD lenses can be adapted to just about anything on the market at the moment.

The trouble is, it is generally a waste of time and money to do so. As you already note, an adapter requires optics to allow infinity focus.otherwise you get a very limited range of focus. Plain adapters are a complete waste of time.

Unless you have some of the really good, fast lenses in that box, you are actually better off just using the kit lens and saving more nickels and dimes to upgrade.

When Minolta introduced the AF Maxxum 7000 with the "A" lens mount they abandoned the "SR" lens mount that your X-700 uses. However, they did offer an adapter to allow use of the older manual focus lenses on the Maxxum 7000. If memory serves there was no need for any extra glass in the adapter to allow for infinity focus. Sony offers the same "SR" to "A" mount adapter but a used one will be cheaper. It might be worth considering a Sony DSLR like the SLT A55.

NOTE: Many people mistakenly think that the "MC" or "MD" on Minolta manual focus lenses has something to do with the lens mount. It doesn't. Minolta added "MC" to their lenses that were meter-coupled when they introduced that feature with the SRT-101. When Minolta introduced the X-700 with its "P" (Program mode) they claimed that only "MD" designated lenses could be used with the "P" mode. So they redid their lenses with the minimum aperture in bright green and, on some "MD" lenses, a slide lock to keep the lens set at the minimum aperture since the lens had to be set there in order for the "P" mode to work. "MD" stood for "Meter Dedicated".

Your best bet would be to get Sony DSLR, which has the same mount as Minolta - Sony took over Konica-Minolta in 2006. You may not get all the auto facilities that you had on the X-700. Best to take the lenses to a camera shop that sells Sony DSLRs and ask to try them on a Sony. No adaptor would be needed. Best to avoid the route of adaptor to Nikon or Canon, since you would certainly lose most if not all auto facilities. I'm a Nikon user, but can see that Sony is knocking hard on the doors of Nikon and Canon for quality and usability, and if I had a box of Minolta lenses I would certainly go down that route. Personally I don't like the idea of any compact system camera, since the eye-level v/f is awkward. I consder eye-level v'/f essential for long lenses.