Apple Timeline, 2001-2005

<1996-2000>
Year
Apple
Other
2001
  • 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
  • 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.
2002
  • 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.
2003
  • 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.
  • 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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