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Apple Timeline, 2001-2005

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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	01.07 Flat panel iMac introduced with 700, 800 MHz G4. 01.07 14" iBook introduced 01.28 First gigahertz Mac - Power Mac G4 with dual 1 GHz CPUs. 04.29 PowerBook G4 (DVI) introduced, reaches 800 MHz 04.29 eMac announced as education only model 05.20 12" iBook and 14" iBook boosted to 700 MHz 07.17 17" iMac announced, 500 MHz iMac discontinued 08.13 'Mirror Drive Door' Power Mac G4 released at 867 MHz and 1 GHz, 1.25 GHz announced 08.24 Mac OS X v10.2 (Jaguar) available 11.05 1 GHz PowerBook G4, 800 MHz 12" iBook, 800 MHz 14" iBook released	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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