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
Apple Releases 'Phase' iPod Game
With the release of iTunes 7.5, Apple promised support for a new iPod game called "Phase" (iTunes link). The game was released yesterday to iTunes and sells for $4.99.
Phase is published through MTV Networks/Viacom but is a product of Harmonix, creators of Guitar Hero. Phase is an interactive music game that lets you experience songs in an entirely new and unique way. Choose a song in...
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Apple Seeds Mac OS X 10.5.1 9B13 to Developers
As expected, Apple has started seeding Mac OS 10.5.1 to developers for testing. The latest seed carries a build number of 9B13 and offers a number of fixes.
Apple details a number of issues addressed in the seed. Specifically, there have been fixes to Mail Sync, Spotlight Index, Disk Management, DesktopServices and moving files across partitions, Text Drawing, iCal and CalDAV syncing,...
Apple Offers Customized MacBooks to School Districts
Apple has won large contracts for MacBooks in Kansas City and Louisiana. The two contracts are valued at $6.4 million and $5 million respectively
It appears Apple has made efforts to provide custom solutions to educators to meet their needs. Kansas City officials describe additional security measures added to the MacBooks, including a way to track lost/stolen MacBooks: All of the laptops have ...
First Intel Penryn Based PCs Announced... Apple to Follow?
Electronista reports that HP has upgraded their workstations with the new Intel Penryn Xeon processors. The new 45-nm Xeon 5200 (dual core) and Xeon 5400 (quad core) processors can be configured in dual-processor configurations (up to 8 cores total).
Yesterday, Lenovo announced their first machines powered by the Intel Xeon 5400 processors. These new Penryn based PCs, however, are not...
Apple iPhone Launches in Germany and UK on November 9th
Apple will be launching the iPhone in the UK and Germany this Friday, November 9th.
A press release details the launch details for Apple, O2 and Carphone Warehouse. The iPhone will be available from more than 1,300 Apple, O2 and Carphone Warehouse retail locations across the UK starting at 6:02pm. O2 has hired and trained hundreds of new iPhone specialists who will be in all 450 O2 stores....
Santa Rosa MacBook (November 2007) Benchmarks
Primate Labs posted benchmark results comparing the new Santa Rosa MacBooks that were quietly updated last week to the Santa Rosa chipset along with the new GMA X3100 integrated video card.
In terms of pure processor speed, the MacBook updates seemed negligible (2.0GHz -> 2.0GHz, 2.16GHz -> 2.2GHz), though the underlying bus speed was increased to 800MHz from 667MHz.
The published...
Apple Releases iMac Software Update 1.2.1 (Tiger)
Shortly after posting the original iMac Software Update 1.2 for Tiger, Apple quietly pulled the update off their site.
Today, Apple has posted a new iMac Software Update, now at version 1.2.1. This update is for 20-inch and 24-inch aluminum iMac computers with 2.0, 2.4, or 2.8 GHz processors running Mac OS X Tiger.
It improves the performance and reliability of graphics-intensive games and...
Apple Working on a Tablet Mac?
Crave revives a long-running rumor that Apple may be working on a Tablet Mac.
The latest claim comes from "friends at Asus" who told Crave that "Asus is helping Apple build a Tablet PC." Further information from their source indicated that it will not be based on existing Asus designs and will come from a completely new blueprint.
While Apple Tablet rumors have been running for years, the...
Apple Preparing for Mac OS X 10.5.1
With Mac OS X Leopard a little over a week old, Apple has already begun making preparations for seeding the next revision of Mac OS X (10.5.1) to testers.
No details on the revision are yet available, but Apple has traditionally pushed out updates quickly after initial release. Apple released the first .1 update to Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) less than three weeks after its initial release....
Google Announces 'Android' Mobile Platform (Google Phones?)
Google, along with over 30 other companies, today announced the formation of an "open phone coalition" for the purpose of developing a mobile platform for future phones. From their website: Welcome to the Open Handset Alliance, a group of more than 30 technology and mobile companies who have come together to accelerate innovation in mobile and offer consumers a richer, less expensive, and better ...
Saturday Night Live iPhone Ad: Date Night
This weekend, Saturday Night Live aired a parody version of the new iPhone ads in which a married man describes how the iPhone helps him avoid getting caught cheating.
The advertisement has since been pulled off Youtube at request of NBC, but Gizmodo still has a copy.
Incidentally, readers have noted that the iPhone used in the commercial has been "hacked" to allow 3rd party...
iPhone UK Launch and 3G iPhone Plans
MacWorld.co.uk points to to a Telegraph interview with O2's chief executive Matthew Key who provides some details on how O2 became Apple's iPhone partner in the UK. After meeting with Steve Jobs in Cupertino, Key had come to a decision: ''When we left two hours later, I said to Cesar, 'that's a device I've got to offer. In the UK market, where the top four networks have pretty much equal shares,...
More Evidence of Canadian iPhone? iPhone Workshops
Perhaps adding more evidence to a coming release of the iPhone in Canada, the Eaton Center Apple Store in Toronto, Ontario is holding an iPhone Workshop on November 10th.
Meanwhile, one recent rumor pegged December 7th as a possible release date for the iPhone in...
MacBook Pro Software Update 1.2 for Tiger
Apple posted a MacBook Pro Software Update version 1.2 today.
This update improves graphics stability and is recommended for all MacBook Pro (Mid 2007, 2.4/2.2GHz) computers running Mac OS 10.4...
iMac Software Update 1.2 (Tiger) and 1.3 (Leopard)
Apple has released iMac Software Update for both Tiger and Leopard.
As always, the release notes are a bit sparse and simply states that "this update provides important bug fixes and is recommended for 20-inch and 24-inch iMac models with 2.0, 2.4, or 2.8GHz processors." An analysis of the update packages indicates that updated graphics drivers have been delivered.
Some had hoped this...
Time's Invention of the Year: iPhone
Time magazine has named the iPhone the Invention of the Year.
The reasoning behind the high honor is broken down into five different reasons:
1. The iPhone is pretty
2. It's touchy-feely
3. It will make other phones better
4. It's not a phone, it's a platform
5. It is but the ghost of iPhones yet to...
Apple Updates MacBooks to Santa Rosa, GMA X3100; 2.6GHz MacBook Pro
As rumored, Apple has quietly updated the MacBook tonight to the Santa Rosa architecture with mild speed bumps and the GMA X3100 integrated video.
White 13.3"
$1099.00 2.0GHz/1GB RAM/80GB/Combo/GMA X3100
$1299.00 2.2GHz/1GB RAM/120GB/SD-DL/GMA X3100
Black 13.3"
$1499.00 2.2GHz/1GB RAM/160GB/SD-DL/GMA X3100
Despite comparable clock speeds (2.0 -> 2.0GHz, 2.16 -> 2.2GHz) to the old...
New Santa Rosa MacBooks in Apple Stores [Confirmed]
In an unusual move, Apple has quietly shipped boxes of new MacBooks to their retail stores this week, many of which arrived today. Special instructions on these boxes indicated that they were not to be opened at this time. But according to reports, the boxes do contain updated Santa Rosa MacBooks. We've even heard claims that some have been inadvertantly sold to unsuspecting customers. A...
Apple Researching Touch Surface Keyboard
During the build up to Leopard's release, we overlooked a very interesting patent application from Apple that appeared last week. This latest application is another product of Apple's Fingerworks acquisition from 2005. Fingerworks had commercialized versions of multi-touch interface input devices, such as this TouchStream keyboard.
The TouchStream keyboard served a dual purpose, acting both ...
144,000 Installs of AppSnapp
iPhoneAtlas reports that one click web-based Jailbreak for the iPhone and iPod Touch has seen 144,000 downloads since its release. The programmers estimates that this number represents approximately 100,000 actual devices.
AppSnapp allows iPhone and iPod Touch users to "jailbreak" their device easily to allow installation of 3rd party applications. Using the known TIFF exploit, by simply...
