Apple Timeline, 2001-2005
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Year
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Apple
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Other
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2001
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- 01.09 Power
Mac G4 moves to 133 MHz system bus, PowerPC 7410 and 7450
processors, reaches 733 MHz
- 01.09 PowerBook
G4 announced Jan. 9 at Macworld Expo.
- 02.22 iMac available in 400, 500, and 600 MHz versions; fastest
models use PowerPC 750Cx
- 03.24 Mac OS X 10.0 '''ships
- 05.01 iBook
completely redesigned, reaches 500 MHz, prices start at $1,299.
- 07.18 'Quicksilver' Power Mac G4
available with 733, 867, and dual 800 MHz CPUs.
- 07.18 iMac
pushes to 700 MHz, CD-RW standard on all models.
- 09.25 Mac OS X 10.1 released, noted for improved speed,
reintroduction of some old Mac features
- 10.16 iBook
pushed to 600 MHz
- 10.16 TiBook rolled out at 550 MHz and 667 MHz
- 12.17 Apple makes Combo Drive (CD-RW/DVD-ROM) standard on
TiBook
- More in Macintosh History:
2001
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- Pentium 4 pushes speed threshold to 2 GHz, but performance
doesn't measure up to clock speed (P4 less efficient per clock cycle
than PIII).
- Athlon XP outperforms Pentium 4 at lower clock speed,
becomes serious choice among PC power users.
- Windows laptops reach 1 GHz mark.
- First Itanium servers ship in July. Intel's bold new CPU
runs at 733 MHz and 800 MHz.
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2002
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- Everyone laughs at Microsoft's push for "secure
computing."
- Pentium 4 reaches 3.06 GHz
- First Itanium 2 hardware ships in September,
'Mirror uns at 900 MHz or 1 GHz.
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2003
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- 01.07 12"
PowerBook G4 and 17"
PowerBook G4 announced.
- 01.07 AirPort Extreme announced at nearly 5x speed of
AirPort
- 01.07 Beta of Safari browser released, quickly becomes #2
browser among Mac users.
- 01.28 Power
Mac G4 reaches 1.42 GHz with dual CPUs, adds FireWire 800 and
AirPort Extreme support, only runs OS X.
- 02.04 17" iMac reaches 1
GHz, adds AirPort Extreme support
- 02.14 Mac OS X 10.2.4 released.
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- 01.25 Slammer
worm infects Microsoft SQL server, rated as fastest spreading worm
to date - despite fact that Microsoft released a security patch six
months earlier.
- 02.06 Dell drops the 3.5" floppy drive as a standard
feature, but users can still order them as an option.
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<1996-2000>