That and the theme from "Goldfinger" are my two favorite Bond title themes of all time as their movies are too. I alternate between the two. Nancy Sinatra and Shirley Bassey are two gorgeous ladies with talent on loan from God.
Now back on topic...One of my sister-in-laws has a small espresso machine and I was going to get her a new one but I cannot afford one of these and so I continue to look around. I think Best Buy had one for a few hundred a while back. I am not wealthy by any means unless you use the Obama/Biden scale in which if you have a paying job, you need to pay more. 
Any recommendations for a working class man such as I in the neighborhood of $300? I doubt it but I don't know anything about this stuff. Regardless, nice thread topic and thanks for putting it up!
I'm still learning myself but am comfortable with my previous recommendation of an affordable grinder, so they can work from whole beans, and a french press. Espresso is high octane stuff, and it's generally not suited to American tastes outside of espresso people circles. I know you said she has an espresso maker but if it's a pod style (admittedly, I'm uninitiated), it might put out something more like a french press style than an espresso. I might be totally wrong but I can't envision how poddies can create backpressure (it's a whole big thing but basically beans ground to a suitable particle size and compressed into a uniformly impassable 'puck' will permit a flowthrough rate of roughly 1 gram of water per second with a 9 bar backpressure, or in American you get a 1 oz espresso from 130 psi of water in about 30 seconds). It could be worth tasting what she makes and comparing it to a 'straight double shot' (ain't nobody order singles) from the local coffee bar. Then you'll know for sure what she's in the market for.
On the building site, I use a Smeg. Smeg espresso machine. Really unfortunate name. It's as if they did no market research at all. Honestly can't remember what I paid but it's not horrible. Dunno what you'd call it but it has no boiler, or maybe a boiler big enough for the cup being demnded. And lemme tell ya, the guys on site have worked it over. It won't impress coffee snobs but looks like it might be on budget. Google says 450 kangaroo dollars which is probably about 300 freedom dollars. A little lever on the side ejects steam (1 time out of 20 needs a reset and another run at it, not letting the reservoir run dry helps it). Again, not coffee snob frothing, with considerations of ideal bubble size and froth duration etc, but it froths. Comparable models which don't say SMEG in big bold letters (which is probably for the best) might be available.
Further up the line are true single boilers, then heat exchanging single boilers aka HX, then double boiler units, but your into.dollars with HX and doubles. I feel ya. Not a rich dude either. I'm just really into good coffee.
