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
More Intel iMac Benchmarks (Native and Rosetta)
MacCentral reviews and benchmarks the new Intel iMacs released at Macworld Expo.
MacCentral's tested both Universal applications as well as PowerPC applications on the new 2.0GHz Intel iMac and compared them to the 2.1GHz iMac G5.
Of the Universal Applications tested, they focused on iMovie, iPhoto, iTunes, iDVD, iSquint, BBEdit and Zip Archiving. In these native applications, the Intel...
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More on Booting Windows on the Intel Mac?
Many believe that booting Windows on the new Intel Macs will become an eventuality, and the efforts are ongoing...
OpenOSX announced they are achieving "nearly native" performance on Intel Macs with OpenOSX WinTel 2.0 - a PC emulator. This appears to be a re-brand of the open source Bochs emulation project. This sort of commercialization has been
MacBook Pro Benchmarks
Craig Wood posted some early benchmarks from MacBook Pro's that were on display at Macworld SF. Readers should note that these are pre-production MacBooks so performance may not be reflective of production models due in mid February.
- MacBook Pro Core Duo 1.83 GHz, 2 GB DDR2, ATI X1600 Mobility 128 MB @ 1440x900 - January 2006 Preproduction
- PowerBook G4 15" 1.67 GHz, 1.5 GB DDR, ATI 9700...
Sony BMG Artists Now Available on iTMS Australia
The Australian iTunes Music Store now includes artists from Sony/BMG. Tracks are $1.69, the same price as tracks from other labels. Albums are typically $16.99, although some are higher than this. Along with the release comes a special page called The Latest and Greatest, which includes a selection of newly-added Sony/BMG albums.
iTunes Australia launched on 25 October 2005, however Sony's...
First Impressions of Intel iMac Core Duo [Updated]
More scattered reports have been coming in from users who have started receiving their Intel iMacs. While there's already been a disassembly there have been limited first hand reports.
Macintouch posted their first impressions of the 2.0GHz Core Duo Intel iMac and ran some early Xbench 1.2 benchmarks compared to a 1.8GHz G5 iMac. The results are difficult to interpret, however. While Xbench ...
Apple Advertising the Mac Online
Apple has launched an online campaign for the new Intel Macs using the same theme as the television ad which was previewed at Macworld San Francisco.
The new ads can be seen at adverlicio.us. The banner ads contain the tag line "Today the Intel chip is being set free" with the Apple logo and "Mac" prominently displayed.
It was previously noted that Intel was unaware of the ad campaign...
Jobs on Intel, Apple Stores, iPods
Newsweek gives a brief interview of Steve Jobs following the Macworld keynote last week.
It provides some interesting comments from Apple's CEO.
- Jobs states that the Mac market share has increased by a point this past year (approaching 5%)
- Apple builds about 30-40 Apple Stores per year to control growth and quality
-...
Apple's Q1 2006 Financial Results, Jobs and Dell
Apple will webcast their 2006 Q1 Financial Results at 2pm Pacific on Wednesday January 18th, 2006. Please note that comments made during this call may include forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties, and that actual results may differ materially from these forward-looking statements. For more information on the factors that could influence results, please refer to...
Macworld San Francisco 2006 Rumor Wrapup: Winners and Losers
After each major event, MacRumors provides a wrapup of rumors to reveal the sources of the most accurate and inaccurate information. Readers are encouraged to read our Macworld Rumor Roundup which was written prior to the actual event.
Last week, Steve Jobs took the stage the stage at Macworld San Francisco and introduced a number of new products including iLife '06 with iWeb, iWork '06, an Int...
Intel iMac Disassembled, Early Benchmarks
Users are getting their hands on the first shipments Intel iMacs.
Kodawarisan has disassembled one of the new Apple Intel iMacs released at Macworld. The site is under heavy load due to interest and the images are also mirrored here. A picture of the Core Duo can be seen here
A few users have posted their informal benchmarks:
Apple Trademarks 'iPod Hi-Fi' and 'iPod Boombox'
Appleinsider notes that Apple has filed for trademarks for two new phrases with the Hong Kong Trademark office. These include:
iPod Hi-Fi - filed on September 20, 2005. Trademark description mirrored here
iPod Boombox - filed June 13, 2005. Trademark description is mirrored here.
Both products are classified in broad categories of computers, hardware, peripherals, etc... Appleinsider...
Notes on Apple's Rosetta Technology
With Apple transitioning the entire Macintosh line over to Intel processors over the next 12 months, users will have to be familiar with Rosetta. Rosetta is the emulator (translator) that allows current Mac (PowerPC) programs to run under the new Intel processors.
Apple has posted some recent
More Details of the MacBook Pro and Intel iMac
Apple's newly announced MacBook Pro will be shipping in February, but there are many unanswered questions about details of the new systems.
MacCentral offers a Q&A reference which addresses many of the issues that have been raised. In summary:
- Slower, single layer, DVD burner. The reason cited is that an ultra-slimline designed optical drive is required for the MacBook 1" thinkness form ...
Apple Integrated Sensing Display?
Hrmpf.com and Macsiumnews posted information about a new Apple Patent which appeared on January 12th 2006 at the US Patent and Trademark Site.
The Integrated Sensing Display is a device which combines the ability to generate an image as well as capture an image. A device comprising: a display area; an array of display elements located within the display area, each display element capable of...
Microsoft Halting Windows Media Player for Mac
Although news of this item had been circulating around the Mac web for a couple of days, CNet now has official word that Microsoft has indeed halted development of Windows Media Player for the Mac. "We have no plans to provide future updates or product support for Windows Media Player for Mac," Adam Anderson, Microsoft public relations manager, said in an interview Thursday.
The current version re...
MacRumors' Webcast Stats during the MWSF 2006 Keynote
On January 10th, 2006, MacRumors delivered live updates of the Macworld San Francisco 2006 keynote speech given by Steve Jobs. Since no live Quicktime stream was made available, Mac fans had to rely on live web text updates. MacRumors.com successfully delivered live-updates to a record number of users using the latest web technologies.
After analyzing the logs, we've posted a summary of the ...
iBook Revisions Second Quarter 2006?
Appleinsider claims that while the MacBook Pro line will expand out further to completely replace the current PowerBook line, they report that the iBook will see their next revisions by second quarter of this calendar year.
Based on comments by Steve Jobs, the rumor site expects that the iBook will likely see a name change in-line with Apple's desire to have 'Mac' as part of its product names. ...
More to Come from Apple... Soon?
Wired's Cult of Mac blog offers some uncharacteristic tidbits from a knowledgable friend who is only attributed as an "anonymous source".
This source claims that the Steve Jobs keynote that was delivered was not the actual keynote originally planned. As noted before, Steve Jobs prepares for weeks prior to the actual event.
Instead, the claim is that "some very, very cool stuff" was...
Apple Trademarks 'Mobile Me'
MacOSXRumors notes that Apple has filed for a trademark for the term "Mobile Me":
The name appears to be under a number of descriptive categories including "telecommunication services", "portable digital electronic devices and software related thereto", "providing digital music from local or global communications networks" and "computer services".
The trademark was filed on January 5th 2006 ...
ATI X1600 Graphics Card in new Intel Macs, X1800 Soon?
InsideMacGames spoke with ATI regarding the inclusion of the ATI Radeon X1600 series in the new Intel Macs. The new graphics hardware is a welcome boost to Apple's hardware line.
According to ATI, they've been working closely with Apple to get the ATI hardware working alongside the new Intel Macs. Close work was done alongside Apple during development, and features such as the color depth...
