Are, That was a nice informative reply. I am not very new to Apple as I have been using a newton for the past 5 years and am amazed by it even today. I am sure i would switch to amc completely if left to me ;-)
BTW, i am a dentist from Madras aka chennai. drop a line , visit when you are in india the next time. aravind On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 00:00:28 +0200, Are Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm sorry Aravind that you are trapped on the lower side of the thick > Wall between rich and poor countries. > > 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-) > > -- > G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... > > Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | > -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | > > Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> > > G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> > --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; > Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> > > Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com > -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
