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Apple Battery Charger, iMac (Mid 2010), LED Cinema Display (27-inch) and Magic Trackpad

Apple announced four products on 27 July 2010: Apple Battery Charger, iMac (Mid 2010), LED Cinema Display (27-inch) and Magic Trackpad. The day spanned Accessories, Displays and Mac.

It was the 8th of 11 dated moments the archive holds for 2010, 42 days after the previous one, 15 June 2010.

Apple Battery Charger product photograph

TheHollowayTape · CC BY-SA 4.0

What Apple announced

Apple Battery Charger

Accessories · Input Device Accessories · discontinued 15 January 2016

The Apple Battery Charger is a battery charger which was sold by Apple Inc. and bundled with six AA batteries. It was introduced in July 2010 and marketed as a way to charge Apple's wireless Magic Mouse, Magic Trackpad and Apple Wireless Keyboard. The charger was discontinued around 2016, after Apple revised their peripherals with built-in batteries that can be charged with a Lightning connector.

iMac (Mid 2010)

Mac · iMac · discontinued 3 May 2011

The iMac is a series of all-in-one computers from Apple, sold as part of the company's Mac family of computers. First introduced in 1998, it has remained a primary part of Apple's consumer desktop offerings since and evolved through seven distinct forms. The iMac natively runs the macOS operating system.

Its original form, the iMac G3, had a gumdrop, egg-shaped look with a CRT monitor, mainly enclosed by a colored, translucent plastic case. The computer was, at the time, an inexpensive, consumer-oriented computer that would easily connect to the Internet. The second major revision, the iMac G4, moved a design with a hemispherical base containing all the main components and an LCD monitor on a freely moving arm attached to it. The third and fourth revisions, the iMac G5 and the Intel iMac, placed all the components immediately behind the display in a plastic casing, creating a slim unified design that tilts only up and down on a simple metal base. The fifth, sixth and seventh revisions swapped the plastic enclosure for metal and became progressively thinner over each revision.

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LED Cinema Display (27-inch)

Displays · Displays · discontinued 2 December 2013

The Apple Cinema Display is a discontinued line of flat-panel computer monitors developed and sold by Apple Inc. between 1999 and 2011. It was initially sold alongside the older line of Studio Displays, but eventually replaced them. Apple offered 20, 22, 23, 24, 27, and 30-inch sizes, with the last model being a 27-inch size with LED backlighting.

The Cinema Display line had three distinct design languages during its lifetime, the first featuring transparent polycarbonate plastic, and the later two featuring anodized aluminum. The first displays were designed to match the colorful plastic of the Power Mac G3 and later the Power Mac G4, while the second revisions were designed to match the aluminum aesthetics of the Power Mac G5 and PowerBook G4. The last available design matched the unibody laptops released in October 2008, and had a glossy screen.

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Magic Trackpad

Accessories · Pointing devices · discontinued 13 October 2015

The archive holds no written summary for this product. Its photographs, family, and dates are on its product page.

Also in 2010

Sources

  1. Apple Battery Charger · Wikipedia
  2. iMac (Mid 2010) · Wikipedia
  3. LED Cinema Display (27-inch) · Wikipedia
  4. Magic Trackpad · Wikipedia

Dates on this page are announcement dates, not shipping dates. Product summaries are drawn from the linked articles, and specification claims in them are the publisher’s, not independent testing. Photograph credits and licences are listed in full on the image credits page.