[geeks] Chinese buying Macs?

Jonathan Groll lists at groll.co.za
Sun May 4 01:50:22 CDT 2008


On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 08:14:58AM +0300, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
> On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 12:58:31AM -0400, James Fogg wrote:
> > The dollar is so flat right now that everything is dirt cheap to people
> > in other countries. I've heard several eBayers who've noticed whopping
> > profits when they opened up their wares to international
> > money/international shipping.
> 
> Maybe it's because there is a good Chinese word processing or email
> program that runs on Macs and PPC Macs is a dirt cheap way to get it.

I suspect Geoffrey has hit the nail on the head here - how good is the
right-to-left Hebrew support in OS X, Geoffrey? If the answer is "very
good" then surely the same is true for Mandarin support, etc?

Cheers,
Jonathan



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