Arnold Kim
Arnold is the Editorial Director of MacRumors and founded the site in February, 2000.
Arnold was also a practicing physician but gave it up in 2008 to focus on this website. He has been writing about Apple for over 20 years, and has been profiled by the New York Times, and interviewed by various news publications about his knowledge of Apple.
He continues to run MacRumors, and provides editorial oversight as well as business direction.
Arnold was also a practicing physician but gave it up in 2008 to focus on this website. He has been writing about Apple for over 20 years, and has been profiled by the New York Times, and interviewed by various news publications about his knowledge of Apple.
He continues to run MacRumors, and provides editorial oversight as well as business direction.
Arnold Kim's Articles
Mac Mini to be Discontinued?
Gizmodo believes that the Mac mini may have already been discontinued by Apple. According to the site's European retailer sources, Apple has stopped orders for the low end Mac and has reportedly told the retailers not to expect any more. The Mac mini may be pronounced dead as soon as today's Apple earnings conference call, as two major retailers in Europe have confirmed to me that they can't...
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NVIDIA Introduces Desktop Chipset for Intel Processors
NVIDIA announced yesterday the GeForce 9400 and 9300 motherboard GPUs which offer desktop equivalents to the NVIDIA mobile chips adopted by Apple in their new notebooks: These new mGPUs give NVIDIA a big advantage over other integrated graphics chips, said Dr. Jon Peddie of Jon Peddie Research. By doing so much parallel processing on a single chip, they can accelerate the new visual computing...
Boxee Adds Hulu, CBS and Comedy Central Support to Apple TV
Boxee.tv has announced that they are offering Hulu.com, CBS.com and Comedy Central streaming support into their media management application.
Boxee is a free personal media application that is installable on your Apple TV. Boxee provides your Apple TV with playback support for a wide variety of media types across local networks and the internet. While the...
Brightkite Location-Based iPhone App Now Available
Brightkite has released a native iPhone application to interface with their web service. Brightkite is a location-based social network in which you can see where your friends and what they are doing. Features in version 1.0 include: * Auto geo-location including Place Snapping and Pick a Place.
* Posting photos and notes to places
* Nearby people and activity ...
Preview Video of synthPond Music Toy
An iPhone developer has forwarded a video of his upcoming synthPond iPhone application that provides a music toy to create 3d/4d sound effects through your iPhone or iPod Touch headphones. The video demo shows the application off and you are encouraged to wear headphones when listening to it:
The app should become available in the App Store in the next few weeks for...
VC Funded Ngmoco Releases 1st iPhone Games
On Friday, iFund funded ngmoco released their first iPhone applications to the App Store. Ngmoco is one of a handful of iPhone developers who qualified for a piece of the $100 million venture capital fund (iFund) that was established when the iPhone SDK was launched.
The two new games are priced very competitively:
Topple ($0.99) - "- Stack and balance a family of mischievous &...
RunKeeper Training Assistant Now Free
We previously mentioned RunKeeper [App Store], a GPS-based training assistant for the iPhone. RunKeeper uses the built-in GPS in the new 3G iPhone to enable runners, cyclists, hikers, skiers, walkers, etc. to track their outdoor fitness activities and promote good health.
Some of the data we enable you to track:
- duration
- distance
- pace
- speed
- total rise
- altitude versus speed...
Weightbot Tracks Your Weight
Tapbots has released their first iPhone app to the App Store last week. Weightbot [App Store] is a weight tracking program for the iPhone, but appears to be particularly well designed. Weightbot is a weight-tracking robot that helps you lose weight. Whether you are trying to lose (or gain) a few pounds, tracking your weight has never been more fun. Set your goal...
New Apple Ads Respond to Microsoft Ad Campaign
Two new 'Get a Mac' Apple ads appeared tonight which appear to be a direct response to Microsoft's $300 Million ad campaign which included two ads with comedian Jerry Seinfeld (Shoe Circus, New Family).
In Bean Counter, John Hodgman (PC) is shown separating money into a large pile dedicated for advertising and a small pile for fixing Vista. The ad seems to be a clear response to the much...
Apple Enabled GPU Hardware Decoding of H.264 on New MacBooks, Pros and Airs?
Tonight, forum user MGLXP noticed that playback of 1080p high definition trailers from Apple took far less CPU time on his new aluminum MacBook (28% CPU) as compared to his old MacBook Pro (100% CPU). Both computers shared the same CPU speed, but the new MacBook includes the NVIDIA 9400M integrated graphics chipset, while the old MacBook Pro uses the...
New iMacs Still Coming Before Holidays?
AppleInsider believes that Apple will still be introducing new iMacs before the end of the year. The site had previously reported that the updates would be "speed bumps" rather than major internal or external changes.
The iMac has traditionally shared an internal design with Apple's notebook computers so it's conceivable that they could see the same NVIDIA chipset revisions the current...
Snow Leopard to Get Cocoa Finder and ImageBoot
AppleInsider reports that Apple's next version of Mac OS X Leopard will introduce a "massive rewrite". According to the rumor site, Apple will rewrite Finder, as well as other Apple applications, from Carbon to Cocoa. Apple has reportedly tapped select members of its developer community to begin testing the updated graphical file system manager as part of a new pre-release copy of Snow Leopard...
Notebook Event Rumor Wrapup: Winners and Losers
With even more media attention on Apple and the rumors surrounding the latest release, more sites have gone out of their way to call out those who got things wrong. While this has given an opportunity for some to say that you shouldn't listen rumors at...
Early MacBook and MacBook Pro Benchmarks
Primate Labs publishes new benchmark tests comparing the new MacBook (Late 2008) and MacBook Pro (Late 2008) to their predecessors. These benchmarks measure both processor and memory performance but do not appear to measure graphics capabilities (GPUs) which should be clearly improved in the new...
Steve Jobs on Lack of Firewire in MacBooks
In the latest email response from Steve Jobs, the Apple CEO responds to one customer's complaint that the new MacBook won't support HD camcorders: Actually, all of the new HD camcorders of the past few years use USB 2.Whether or not you agree with Apple's decision to remove Firewire from its low end laptops, it's clear that Apple is abandoning the feature in their consumer-targeted machines.
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MacBook and MacBook Pro Disassembly and Photos
MacBook Pro logic board
iFixit has posted photos of the complete disassembly of the new MacBook and MacBook Pro. The disassembly guides show how to access the hard drive, battery and RAM on the new machines. No video adapter is included in the packaging.
Meanwhile, AppleInsider has posted a set of high quality
iTunes Has Sold Over 200 Million TV Episodes
Apple announced today that the iTunes store is now offering High Definition prime time programming from all four of the major networks. Weve got an incredible Fall 2008 TV lineup with over 70 primetime comedies and dramas, including many of the most popular shows on TV in stunning HD, said Eddy Cue, Apples vice president of Internet Services. With over 200 million episodes sold, iTunes customers...
MacBook Pro Does Not Support Both GPUs Simultaneously
When Apple introduced new MacBook Pro notebooks with two types of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) from NVIDIA, many wondered if both GPUs could be used simultaneously. NVIDIA's Hybrid SLI/GeForce Boost technology allows some notebook configurations to use one or both of a notebook's GPUs. When both GPUs are utilized simultaneously, ...
Google Also Includes 'Kill Switch' for Apps in Android
Reviews of the T-Mobile G1 Android phone have started trickling out. Walt Mossberg found the phone to be a "very good first effort".
Computerworld reveals, however, that the new Android phone also includes the ability for Google to remotely remove applications from the device: In the Android Market terms of service, Google expressly says that it might remotely remove an application from user...
17" MacBook Pro to be Updated "In a Few Months"?
Notably absent from the new MacBook Pro releases yesterday was an refresh of the 17" MacBook Pro. Instead, Apple provided a minor upgrade to the high-end MacBook Pro but with no change in external casing: The updated 17-inch MacBook Pro keeps its original aluminum design, and now comes standard with a high resolution 1920 x 1200 LED-backlit display and a larger 320GB hard drive or an optional...
