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
Quad PowerMacs and the PowerPC 970MP?
Earlier this week, a MacRumors Page 2 article reported that the most recent Apple CHUD Developer tools had made minor UI changes allowing for the possibility of upcoming Quad processor Macs.
The changes were somewhat speculative as the changes are as seen here (old on top, new on bottom).
More evidence pointing specifically to Quad processor support, however, can be seen in the MONster.app...
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Apple adopts Blu-ray Technology
The Blu-ray Disc Association announced today that Apple has become a member of the consortium's Board of Directors. "Apple is pleased to join the Blu-ray Disc Association board as part of our efforts to drive consumer adoption of HD," said Steve Jobs, Apples CEO. "Consumers are already creating stunning HD content with Apples leading video editing applications like iMovie HD and are anxiously...
Apple to Boost Standard Memory?
Appleinsider reports that Apple will soon boost the included RAM on current Mac models to 512MB. Last January, the Mac maker begun offering 512MB of built-in memory across its PowerBook G4 line; some of the company's higher-end Power Mac desktops also ship standard with this higher memory capacity. But for the most part, the standard configured Macintosh includes only 256MB of RAM.
Including...
XBox 2 PowerPC Processor Hints?
GameSpy offers some initial details regarding the upcoming XBox 2 from Microsoft.
Our interest in the XBox 2 stems from the 2003 announcement that IBM Processor technology would power the upcoming XBox revision.
Leaked reports pointed to PowerPC based three core CPUs, but few details were available.
The report from GameSpy describes a CPU with "three 3.0 GHz PowerPC cores. Each core is ...
Skittles Star Wars iPod Update
Skittles.com has been updated with the Star Wars themed iPod giveaway that was previously reported.
The upcoming Star Wars iPod appears to simply be a Star Wars engraved iPod with a custom iSkin.
According to the disclaimer at the bottom of the page "Apple is not a sponsor or partner in this promotion." So, the iPods are simply aftermarket...
Motorola iTunes Phone Delayed? [Update]
This Reuters article reports that Motorola is set to introduce several new phones on Thursday which will make it easier for consumers to store, share and print pictures.
iTunes users' eyes have been on the cell phone maker this week after comments that the previously announced iTunes-compatible Motorola Phone would be coming ...
Apple Seeds Mac OS X 10.3.9 7W77
Wednesday night, Apple seeded Mac OS X 10.3.9 7W77 to developers. The new seed appears to only contain minor changes to the latest OS X revision with bug fixes for audio drivers, firewire video capture performance improvements, and wake from sleep fixes.
Areas of testing include AFPServer file transfers, BlueTooth, DVD Player, Date and Time
Utilities, FireWire devices, Fonts, Mail, iDisk...
More than 2 Processor Support in Mac OS X?
One user submits the following:
"Apple released version 4.1.0 of their CHUD tools. CHUD is used by developer for optimizing applications. One of the components is a system preference panel called "Processor". It enables you to turn off the "Nap" function of the processors, but more importantly it allows you to turn off the second processor of a dual-processor machine.
With version 4.1.0, ...
Paying 5 Cents Per Song?
The Globe and Mail reports on one McGill academic's proposal to stop unauthorized music downloads on the internet.
At the Canadian Music Week conference in Toronto Sandy Pearlman proposed setting up a robust search engine of all recorded music such as Google or iTunes and charging 5 cents per song alongside a 1% sales tax on new computers. Doing so would theoretically increase the number of...
Dashboard Widget Contest Winners
Apple has posted the winners of a developer's contest for Dashboard Widgets for the upcoming Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger).
The two winners include:
Send SMS which "combines the instantly available Tiger Dashboard with Short Message Service, or SMS. SMS is a text message service that enables short messages of generally no more than 140-160 characters in length to be sent and transmitted from a...
PowerPC 970GX Reference?
A developer article on IBM's website was noted to have a reference to a yet-unreleased processor referred to as the PowerPC 970GX. "The only processors currently supporting AltiVec are the G4 and G5. The G4 (including model numbers 7400 and 7410) and G4+ (7450 and 7455) processors are made by Motorola. (There are more models than just the ones listed here, but these are the most widely discussed.) ...
Motorola's iTunes Phone - This Week?
Newsweek reports on Motorola's recent turnaround success with its cell-phone business. In the article, they also mention that their previously announced iTunes-compatible phone is due this Thursday: This Thursday, Motorola is expected to announce the first handsets that will carry Apple's popular iTunes music software.
Apple originally announced the plan to license iTunes for Motorola last...
ThinkSecret Seeks Dismissal of Lawsuit
ThinkSecret announced that it has filed a special motion to have Apple's lawsuit against the rumor site dismissed on First Amendment grounds.
The lawsuit in question is distinct from the issue of subpoenaed information which is also an ongoing legal battle between Apple and a number of Apple-releated websites.
In this instance, however, Apple had sued ThinkSecret itself for posting Apple...
Tiger Automator, Spotlight and Dashboard Plugins
Several readers have noted that some of Apple's download pages have included new categories for the upcoming Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger release.
The new categories include:
Automator Actions
Dashboard Widgets
Spotlight Plugins
Automator allows users to setup repetitive tasks using visual tools. Additional actions would allow added functionality to Automator.
Dashboard is Apple's new...
Apple Wins Initial Ruling [Updated]
Apple won a preliminary ruling allowing it to subpoena information from three Mac sites which helped leak information surrounding a recently rumored audio product ("Asteroid").
It was reported that earlier this month that lawyers representing these sites were challenging these subpoenas under first amendment protection.
The ruling is expected to be appealed.
Update: It appears the final...
Doom 3 Mac Benchmarks
MacWorld has posted the first Mac benchmarks for id Software's Doom 3.
The upcoming first person shooter has already been shipping for the PC, but will be coming to the Mac in mid-March. MacWorld was able to test the Gold Master version of Doom 3 and should represent the same performance as the shipping copy.
The testing configuration was a Power Mac G5 2.5GHz Dual processor with 2.5GB of...
Star Wars Themed iPods
According to Star Wars fan-site RebelScum, Skittles will be giving away 100 Star Wars Themed iPods as part of a Star Wars promotion starting on April 2, 2005.
Apple has had a few official cross promotion iPod specials in the past with celebrity signed iPods and the still offered Black U2 iPod.
No details on the case-design of the Star ...
iPod Camera Connector Photo
Appleinsider posted a photo of the upcoming iPod Camera Connector which was announced on Wednesday.
The upcoming connector appears to be a small white adapter which connects directly to the iPod's dock connector one on end and a female USB port on the other end. A USB cable then leads to the Camera.
According to earlier comments, the new adapter will be available in March and be compatible ...
Jef Raskin Passes Away
Jef Raskin, the interface expert credited for the original Macintosh, passed away this weekend from pancreatic cancer at age 61.
According to a statement from his family, Raskin died Saturday night at his home in Pacifica. Raskin joined Apple in 1978 as the 31st employee and spearheaded a small team on a project that would become the Macintosh.
Raskin was also responsible for naming the...
Mac OS X 10.3.9 7W72 Seeded
While waiting for Mac OS X 10.4 to be released... Apple is still working on tweaks and fixes for Mac OS X 10.3. On Friday, Apple seeded Mac OS X 10.3.9 to developers.
The indicated areas of testing include Bluetooth, DVD Player, FireWire devices, Modems (internal and external), Networking, Printing, Safari, Terminal, USB devices, general system usability and reliability.
Bug fixes listed...
