By 1987 Ethernet was clearly winning the standards battle over Token Ring, and in the middle of that year Apple introduced EtherTalk 1. 0 for the newly released Macintosh II computer.

The Apple II and TRS-80 each had two versions of BASIC, a smaller introductory version introduced with the initial releases of the machines and a more advanced version developed as interest in the platforms increased.

* 1984 – The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to popularize the computer mouse and the graphical user interface, is introduced during Super Bowl XVIII with its famous " 1984 " television commercial.

On January 24, 1984, Apple Computer Inc. ( now Apple Inc .) introduced the Macintosh personal computer, with the Macintosh 128K model, which came bundled with what was later renamed the Mac OS, but then known simply as the System Software.

Bill Atkinson, a member of the Apple Lisa team, introduced him to Burrell Smith, a service technician who was soon hired earlier that year.

The first pointing device gesture, the " drag ," was introduced by Apple to replace a dedicated " move " button on mice shipped with its Macintosh and Lisa computers.

In May 2011 Playboy introduced i. playboy. com, a complete, uncensored version of its near 700 issue archive, targeting the Apple iPad.

Apple introduced the Power Mac series of high-end personal computers aimed at businesses and creative professionals in 1994 with an advertising campaign consisting of several television commercials and print ads.

Apple introduced the PackBits format with the release of MacPaint on the Macintosh computer.

When attempting to increase processing power, Apple was hampered by the overheating problems of the 68040 ; this resulted in the 100-series PowerBook being stuck with the aging 68030 which could not compete with newer-generation Intel 80486-based PC laptops introduced in 1994.

For several years, new PowerBook and PowerBook Duo computers were introduced which featured incremental improvements, including color screens, but by mid-decade, most other companies had copied the majority of the PowerBook's features, and Apple was unable to regain their lead.

In 1992 Apple released a hybrid portable / desktop computer, the PowerBook Duo, continuing to streamline the subnotebook features introduced with the PowerBook 100.

Apple introduced two later G3 PowerBook models, similar in appearance ( curved, black plastic case with black rubberized sections ) but thinner, lighter and with revised internal systems.

Support for the 30-inch Apple Cinema display was also introduced in the new 17-inch model and was optional in the 15-inch model via a build-to-order upgrade to the computer's video hardware.

In June 1999 Apple also introduced a streaming media format in its QuickTime 4 application.

The Apple Pippin, a console introduced in 1995 had a trackball built into its gamepad as standard.

* January 24 – The Apple Macintosh is introduced.

Apple Inc .' s first computer, the Apple 1 introduced in 1976, featured PROM chips that eliminated the need for a front panel.

Apple also introduced speech recognition into its systems which provided a fluid command set.

The LaserWriter was a laser printer with built-in PostScript interpreter introduced by Apple in 1985.

At about the same time, Jonathan Seybold ( John W's son ) introduced Paul Brainerd to Apple, where he learned of Apple's laser printer efforts and saw the potential for a new program using the Mac's GUI to produce PostScript output for the new printer.

It also continued a departure from the beige color that characterized the Apple and Macintosh products to that time by using the same brighter, creamy off-white color first introduced with the Apple IIc and Apple Scribe Printer 8 months earlier.

In 2010, 27 " LCD monitors with the resolution 2560 × 1440 were released by multiple manufacturers including Apple, and in 2012 Apple introduced a 2880 × 1800 display on the MacBook Pro.

M. cardiaca ; hybrid with Mentha arvensis ), and Mentha × villosa ( Large Apple Mint, hybrid with Mentha suaveolens ).

** WQXGA ( 2, 560 × 1, 600 ) @ 60 Hz with GTF blanking ( 2 × 174 MHz ) ( Apple, Dell, Gateway, HP, NEC, Quinux, and Samsung LCDs )

** WQXGA ( 2, 560 × 1, 600 ) @ 60 Hz with CVT-RB blanking ( 2 × 135 MHz ) ( Apple, Dell, Gateway, HP, NEC, Quinux, and Samsung LCDs )

** Low-Resolution: 40 × 48 ( 15 colors The Mega II duplicates all the functions of a standard Apple IIe, minus RAM, ROM and CPU.

The iPhone 4 and iPod Touch 4's " Retina Display " has the lowest dot pitch of any Apple display, being 960 × 640 and only 3. 5 inches.

It is sometimes claimed ( e. g., by Steve Gibson ) that the Apple II, introduced in 1977, supported an early form of subpixel rendering in its high-resolution ( 280 × 192 ) graphics mode.

It hybridises with Mentha spicata ( Spearmint ) to produce Mentha × piperita ( Peppermint ), a sterile hybrid ; with Mentha suaveolens ( Apple Mint ) to produce Mentha × suavis ; with Mentha arvensis ( Corn Mint ) to produce Mentha × verticillata ; and with both M. arvensis and M. spicata to give the tri-species hybrid Mentha × smithiana.

* " 3. 5 inch " drive: ( 4 in × 5. 75 in × 1 in = 101. 6 mm × 146. 05 mm × 25. 4 mm ) This smaller, disk-drive form factor was introduced with the Apple Macintosh series in 1984, and later adopted throughout the industry beginning widely with the IBM PS / 2 series in 1987, which included drives of this size for 90-mm (" 3. 5-inch ") floppy disks.

Apple II's hi-res display pages ( Hi-Res 1: 280 × 160 and Hi-Res 2: 280 × 192 ) were implemented by Steve Wozniak using two TTL chips.

The original version of the game was for Apple Macintosh ; a port to MS-DOS was made, but it is not as visually appealing due to the lower resolution available to IBM PC-class machines at the time ( 320 × 200 VGA vs. 512 × 342 minimum on Macintoshes ).

As of 2012, less than 50 Apple I computers ( with only six in working order ) are believed to exist, making it a very rare collector's item.

< li > In November 2010, an Apple I with serial number 82 sold for £ 133, 250 ($ 210, 000 ) at Christie's auction house in London.

The high price was likely due to the rare documents and packaging offered in the sale in addition to the computer, including the original packaging ( with the return label showing Steve Jobs ' parents ' address, the original Apple Computer Inc ' headquarters ' being their garage ), a personally typed and signed letter from Jobs ( answering technical questions about the computer ), and the original invoice showing ' Steven ' as the salesman.

Applesoft BASIC was a dialect of Microsoft BASIC supplied with the Apple II series of computers.

As Steve Wozniak, the creator of Integer BASIC and the only person who understood it well enough to add floating point features, was busy with the Disk II drive and controller and with Apple DOS, Apple turned to Microsoft, who was the BASIC vendor of choice after their success with Altair BASIC, and licensed a 10 KB assembly language version of BASIC dubbed " Applesoft.

Apple Business BASIC shipped with the Apple /// computer.

It was announced early in 1983 with a fall introduction at the target price of $ 500 for plug-in AppleNet cards for the Lisa and the Apple II.

By this point Apple had a wide variety of communications products under development, and many of these were announced along with AppleTalk Phase II.

In 1988 Apple had released MacTCP, a system that allowed the Mac to support TCP / IP on machines with suitable Ethernet hardware.

As the world quickly moved to IP for both LAN and WAN uses, Apple was faced with maintaining two increasingly outdated code bases on an ever-wider group of machines as well as the introduction of the PowerPC based machines.

The Apple Filing Protocol ( AFP ), formerly AppleTalk Filing Protocol, is the protocol for communicating with AppleShare file servers.

The 1977 Apple II, shown here with two Disk II floppy disk drives and a 1980s-era Apple Monitor II.

The Apple II series ( trademarked with square brackets as " Apple

The second incarnation was a much smaller unit the width of two 5¼ " floppy drives stacked on top of each other, and the third incarnation looked like a flattened Apple with a built-in keyboard.

An Apple II computer with an external modem

* Formats with lossless compression, such as FLAC, Monkey's Audio ( filename extension APE ), WavPack ( filename extension WV ), TTA, ATRAC Advanced Lossless, Apple Lossless ( filename extension m4a ), MPEG-4 SLS, MPEG-4 ALS, MPEG-4 DST, Windows Media Audio Lossless ( WMA Lossless ), and Shorten ( SHN ).

* m4p – A version of AAC with proprietary Digital Rights Management developed by Apple for use in music downloaded from their iTunes Music Store.