<P> 2004, however, was a turning point for Apple . After creating a sizable financial base to work with, the company began experimenting with new parts from new suppliers . As a result, Apple was able to produce new designs quickly over a short amount of time, with the release of the iPod Video, then the iPod Classic, and eventually the iPod touch and iPhone . </P> <P> On April 29, 2005, Apple released Mac OS X v10. 4 "Tiger" to the general public . </P> <P> Apple's wildly successful PowerBook and iBook products relied on Apple's previous generation G4 architecture which were produced by Freescale Semiconductor, a spin - off from Motorola . Engineers at IBM had minimal success in making their PowerPC G5 processor consume less power and run cooler but not enough to run in iBook or PowerBook formats . As of the week of October 24, 2005 Apple released the Power Mac G5 Dual that features a Dual - Core processor . This processor contains two cores in one rather than have two separate processors . Apple has also developed the Power Mac G5 Quad that uses two of the Dual - Core processors for enhanced workstation power and performance . The new Power Mac G5 Dual cores run individually at 2.0 GHz or 2.3 GHz . The Power Mac G5 Quad cores run individually at 2.5 GHz and all variations have a graphics processor that has 256 - bit memory bandwidth . </P> <P> Initially, the Apple Stores were only opened in the United States, but in late 2003, Apple opened its first Apple Store abroad, in Tokyo's Ginza district . Ginza was followed by a store in Osaka, Japan in August 2004 . In 2005, Apple opened stores in Nagoya, the Shibuya district of Tokyo, Fukuoka, and Sendai . Another store was opened in Sapporo in 2006 . Apple's first European store opened in London, on Regent Street, in November 2004 . A store in the Bullring shopping centre in Birmingham opened in April 2005, and the Bluewater shopping centre in Dartford, Kent opened in July 2005 . Apple opened its first store in Canada in the middle of 2005 at the Yorkdale Shopping Centre in North York, Toronto . Later on in 2005 Apple opened the Meadowhall Store in Sheffield and the Trafford Centre Store in Manchester (UK). Recent additions in the London area include the Brent Cross Apple Store (January 2006), the Apple Store in Westfield in Shepherd's Bush (September 2008) and the Apple Store in Covent Garden (August 2010), which is currently the largest store in the world . </P>

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