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The Macintosh Classic II (also sold as the Performa 200) is a personal computer designed and manufactured by Apple Computer, Inc. from October 1991 to September 1993. The system has a compact, appliance design with an integrated 9" monitor, typical of the earliest of the Macintosh range.
2000 February 16, 2000 PowerBook FireWire (G3 "Pismo") PowerBook G3: January 9, 2001 iBook SE: iBook: September 13, 2000 July 19, 2000 Power Mac G4 Cube: Power Mac: July 3, 2001 iMac G3 (Summer 2000) iMac: February 22, 2001 September 13, 2000 iBook (FireWire), iBook SE: iBook: May 1, 2001 2001 January 7, 2001 PowerBook G4 Titanium: PowerBook G4 ...
iBook is a line of laptop computers designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple Computer from 1999 to 2006. The line targeted entry-level, consumer and education markets, with lower specifications and prices than the PowerBook, Apple's higher-end line of laptop computers.
Vindicating Jobs on the Internet's appeal to consumers, 32% of iMac buyers had never used a computer before, and 12% were switching from PCs. [47] The iMac reestablished the Mac's reputation as a trendsetter: for the next few years, translucent plastic became the dominant design trend in numerous consumer products. [48]
Jobs initially wanted the new consumer desktop to be a network computer—a cheap, low-powered terminal without disk drives that would connect to Internet servers. Ive's design team was given Jobs's specifications for the new product in September 1997: it should be a distinctive, all-in-one computer with a price of about $1,200, much lower than the $2,000 (equivalent to $3,700 in 2023) for ...
The Mac II had eight 30-pin SIMMs, and memory was installed in groups of four (called "Bank A" and "Bank B"). The original Macintosh II did not have a PMMU by default. It relied on the memory controller hardware to map the installed memory into a contiguous address space. This hardware had the restriction that the address space dedicated to ...
The Apple USB Modem supports V.92, Caller ID, wake-on-ring, telephone answering (V.253), and modem on hold. The modem is manufactured by Motorola. A device driver for the modem was introduced with Mac OS X version 10.4.3. It retailed for US$49 at the time of its introduction.
Access to the computer's internal components is gained by using a handle to pull the computer out of its plastic shell. The Cube was an important product to Apple, [6] and especially to Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who said the idea for the product came from his own desires as a computer user for something between the iMac and Power Mac G4, saying, "I wanted the [flat-panel] Cinema Display but I don ...