[Aiken]

Not impossible to solve. Get some money from home. Arrive to California, buy used computer (athlon 1000+, 256 ram, some gforce4 mx or so, 15" monitor), and you're ready for beta testing se5 in low-end enviroment. Better than nothing. It should cost you less than 400$ (my humble estimations). You'll have to find more or less permanent i-net access, but it's a different problem.