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Apple Pro Speakers (minijack), Power Mac G4 Digital Audio and PowerBook G4 Titanium

Apple announced three products on 9 January 2001: Apple Pro Speakers (minijack), Power Mac G4 Digital Audio and PowerBook G4 Titanium. The day spanned Accessories and Mac.

It was the 1st of 5 dated moments the archive holds for 2001, 118 days after the previous one, 13 September 2000.

Apple Pro Speakers (minijack) product photograph

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What Apple announced

Apple Pro Speakers (minijack)

Accessories · Speakers · discontinued 2004

Apple Inc. has produced and sold numerous music and multimedia speakers, available for standalone purchase and bundled with Macintosh products.

Power Mac G4 Digital Audio

Mac · Power Macintosh · discontinued 18 July 2001

The Power Mac G4 is a series of personal computers designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple Computer from 1999 to 2004 as part of the Power Macintosh line. Built around the PowerPC G4 series of microprocessors, the Power Mac G4 was marketed by Apple as the first "personal supercomputers", reaching speeds of 4 to 20 gigaFLOPS. This was the first existing Macintosh product to be officially shortened as "Mac" (with the exception of the iMac), and is the last Mac able to boot into classic Mac OS with the introduction of Mac OS X.

The enclosure style introduced with the Power Macintosh G3 (Blue and White) was retained through the entire five-year production run of the Power Mac G4, albeit with significant changes to match Apple's evolving industrial design and to accommodate increasing cooling needs. The G4 and its enclosure were retired with the introduction of the Power Mac G5.

PowerBook G4 Titanium

Mac · PowerBook G4 · discontinued 16 September 2003

The PowerBook G4 is a series of notebook computers manufactured, marketed, and sold by Apple Computer between 2001 and 2006 as part of its PowerBook line of notebooks. The PowerBook G4 runs on the RISC-based PowerPC G4 processor, designed by the AIM (Apple/IBM/Motorola) development alliance and initially produced by Motorola. It was built later by Freescale, after Motorola spun off its semiconductor business under that name in 2004. The PowerBook G4 has had two different designs: one with a titanium body with a translucent black keyboard and a 15-inch screen; and another in an aluminum body with an aluminum-colored keyboard, in 12-inch, 15-inch, and 17-inch sizes.

Between 2001 and 2003, Apple produced the titanium PowerBook G4; between 2003 and 2006, the aluminum models were produced. Both models were hailed for their modern design, long battery life, and processing power. When the aluminum PowerBook G4s were first released in January 2003, 12-inch and 17-inch models were introduced first, while the 15-inch model retained the titanium body until September 2003, when a new aluminum 15-inch PowerBook was released. The aluminum 15-inch model also includes a FireWire 800 port, which had been included with the 17-inch model since its debut nine months earlier.

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Also in 2001

Sources

  1. Apple Pro Speakers (minijack) · Wikipedia
  2. Power Mac G4 Digital Audio · Wikipedia
  3. PowerBook G4 Titanium · Wikipedia

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