Camera Recommendations

[RidgeRunner]

I have a 10 year old FUJI FinePics Digital Camera.
There is the reason I don't take many pictures.
It eats batteries when you turn on the LCD display. It can be used without the display but what is the fun in that? Why did they put one on it, if it kills the batteries? You can't even fill up the smallest SD card in the thing before the batteries go dead. It takes 2 AA batteries. It came with a charger and rechargeable batteries that don't last as long as a pair of fresh Duracell batteries.
Anybody got a recommendation on a good new camera?
I want to be able to take at least 50 pictures before replenishing the batteries.
I believe this one is 6 mega-pixels. Someone told me the new ones with 6 mega-pixels don't take as nice a picture as the old cameras. I dunno, 6 megapixels is probably entry level camera of today. This one has 6X zoom.