So, it seems that the "third world" countries are allowed to supply cheap labour to assemble our Macs, but if their people want to enjoy the products they are making, they have to pay 25% more than the rich. And with the big inequality in exchange rates, the real cost of a Mac in India is outragous.
I know the costs and the buying power of a Rupee in India. I have been there six times and lived there for months. Wonderful place. And it was the exchange rates that made it possible for me...
Anyway, if you can possibly raise the money for the used G4, go for it. It is a good computer, however obsolete Apple wants us to think it is. Fast enough to run OSX well; Im doing it on older machines here in cold Norway. Not everybody in the West have money to spend on new G5s... However, you would need more RAM. I dont know whether you make that kind in India, but if you buy something used from abroad, the seller could state a low value to keep the import tax down.
I know we Mac-people might seem a bit fanatic about our choice of computers and disgusted with the Windoze world. But believe me, the difference is real. I have worked with both. The Macs are just so much less hassle, everything is so much smoother, integrated and automatic, everything looks better on the screen.
And much more important for you: OSX uses Unicode for all textrepresentations, and includes scriptsystems for a lot of languages. Comes with keyboard layouts, fonts etc for devanagiri and other Indian languages. Which of course can be freely mixed with text in any other script-system. Guess you can have the menus, dialogs etc in any script too.
Good luck, and remember: there are no questions too stupid to ask. Everybody was a beginner once.
Shanti 8-)
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