Check to be sure the device(s) can be exported to Ecuador! If you get caught with a chip that can't be sent outside the USA you could have a real problem. (department of homeland security) Most computer parts come from non-US sources anyway, buy the parts in Ecuador and help their economy. Sam. Quoting Mike Miller <mbmiller at taxa.epi.umn.edu>: > My wife is from Quito, Ecuador, and her (far from wealthy) parents, > siblings and their kids still live there. We would like to buy computers > for them and I'm trying to come up with a good way to do this such that: > > (1) The computers will be respectable, current machines, > (2) they won't cost too much money, and > (3) shipping costs will be kept to a minimum. > > I will be going to Ecuador one of these days and I think I'll bring parts > with me and assemble the machines there (probably 4 or 5 of them). I'm > hoping that I can buy main boards, drives and such here, but buy the cases > and monitors in Quito. I think I can fit the parts into a carry-on bag > and thereby avoid any S/H costs. > > Any thoughts on that plan? > > The next issue is software. I would love for them to run Linux or a dual > boot system. Everything has to be in Spanish. Do all Linux OSs allow for > Spanish language installations? Same for Windows XP? > > If I could set them up with Linux only, they might not be happy. Any > views on this? I think some of them would be fine -- email, web, word > processing -- but the users who want to get into downloading photos from a > digital camera or doing video editing might have some trouble. What do > you think? > > Thanks in advance for any thoughts you can share. I'm not sure when I'll > actually do this, maybe this summer, but I wanted to start planning now. > > Best, > > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >