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Year Launched Model Family Discontinued Lifespan 1983 January 19, 1983 Lisa [a] Compact: August 1, 1986 3 years, 6 months 1984 January 1, 1984 Lisa 2 [a] Compact: January 1, 1985 1 year January 24, 1984 Macintosh 128K: Compact: September 10, 1984 7 months September 10, 1984 Macintosh 512K: Compact: April 14, 1986 1 year, 7 months Macintosh 128K ...
Model Family Discontinued January 19, 1989 Macintosh SE/30: Compact October 21, 1991 March 7, 1989 Macintosh IIcx: Mac II March 11, 1991 Apple Two Page Monochrome Monitor: Displays: October 19, 1992 Apple Macintosh Portrait Display: Displays: October 19, 1992 Apple High-Resolution Monochrome Display: Displays: February 1, 1991 July 1989 Apple ...
The PowerPC 970 ("G5") was the first 64-bit Mac processor. The PowerPC 970MP was the first dual-core Mac processor and the first to be found in a quad-core configuration. It was also the first Mac processor with partitioning and virtualization capabilities. Apple only used three variants of the G5, and soon moved entirely onto Intel architecture.
As part of the Mac transition to Intel processors, Apple released a 13-inch laptop simply named "MacBook", as a successor to the PowerPC-based iBook series of laptops. . During its existence, it was the most affordable Mac, serving as the entry-level laptop that was less expensive than the rest of the Mac laptop lineup (the MacBook Pro portable workstation, and later the MacBook Air ultra-port
The models also introduced a "second-generation" butterfly-mechanism keyboard whose keys have more travel than the first iteration in the Retina MacBook. The 13-inch model has a trackpad that is 46% larger than its predecessor while the 15-inch model has a trackpad twice as large as the Retina models.
The Intel-based MacBook Pro is a discontinued line of Macintosh notebook computers sold by Apple Inc. from 2006 to 2021. It was the higher-end model of the MacBook family, sitting above the low-end plastic MacBook and the ultra-portable MacBook Air, and was sold with 13-inch to 17-inch screens.
Steve Jobs introduced the MacBook Air during Apple’s keynote address at the 2008 Macworld conference on January 15, 2008. [4] The first MacBook Air was a 13.3-inch model, initially promoted as the world's thinnest notebook at 1.9 cm (0.75 in) (a previous record holder, 2005's Toshiba Portege R200, was 1.98 cm (0.78 in) high).
The design of the unibody MacBook has stylistic traits of the MacBook Air that were also implemented into the design of the unibody MacBook Pro. This model is thinner than the original polycarbonate MacBooks, and it made use of a unibody aluminum case with tapered edges. The keyboard of the higher-end model included a backlight.