Apple CEO Steve Jobs took the wraps off the ‘iPad’ tablet yesterday, looking to define 2010

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HIGHLIGHTS OF MACINTOSH EVOLUTION AND SHARE PRICE Device is half an inch thick
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1984 1994 iPod

2007
Macintosh 128k Power Macintosh iPod touch
Compact Transition from 1998 First iPod with
all-in-one Motorola’s processors iMac touch screen
computer to PowerPC chips First Mac to and wireless
offer USB ports, 2001 Internet access.
150 drop support for iPod 8GB / 16GB
SCSI and floppy First Apple
drives portable
digital music
1989 player 2006
Macintosh Mac Pro
Portable 1997 Completes
Apple’s first Power Mac G3, Apple's
100 attempt at a transition
Steve Jobs
portable returns to Apple to Intel
computer 1999 processors
and eventually iBook
becomes CEO First Mac
1991
PowerBook using Unified
Features 10 Motherboard
inch colour Architecture
50 (UMA)
screen 2008
and trackball 2004
iPod SMS
9 iPhone 3G*
mini GPS, faster
access to
Internet and
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REUTERS/THE GLOBE AND MAIL 66 SOURCE: APPLE, COMPUTERWORLD, APPLE-HISTORY.COM ILLUSTRATIONS NOT TO SCALE * FIRST IPHONE RELEASED IN 2007