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
IBM's PowerTune Technology
TechWorld offers some early details of IBM's new PowerTune technology in the PowerPC 970FX. The company claims that the chip's unique power-tuning technique allows it to vary power consumption thousands of times per second, reducing the overall power consumption compared with other chips that consume a constant amount of power.
According to a senior technical staff member at IBM, "customers will...
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No PowerMacs in February?
ThinkSecret updates with a number of small blurbs... the most interesting of which involves some information of PowerMac G5 updates.
According to the rumor site, while Apple has received PowerPC 970FX chips from IBM for "a number of weeks", PowerMac G5 upgrades are not expected during the month of February.
Steve Jobs had last announced that PowerMac G5s would reach 3GHz "before the end of...
iPod Minis - Feb 20th
Despite limited supply arriving at Apple Stores for the iPod mini as early as Feb 16th... the new Minis will reportedly not go on sale until February 20th at 6pm.
Some Apple Stores are taking reservations for early orders at this time.
Apple may be hosting some sort of event/launch party at that time, but details are yet...
IBM Announces New Chip Making Method
IBM officially announced that it is producing the PowerPC 970FX today based on "a new method of manufacturing to make microprocessors that consume less power".
The new manufacturing process for the new chips includes silicon-on-insulator, strained silicon and copper wiring based on a 90nm chip making process. The resulting chip "which can process vast amounts of computer memory compared with...
PowerMac Edu Prices?
According to one report PowerMac G5 educational bulk pricing has dropped...
Apple Store London
TimesOnline reports that Apple is planning on opening a "giant flagship store" on London's Regent Street.
The 20,000 sq ft store would represent Apple's second international store, and the first in Europe.
Apple had hinted that Apple Retail Stores would make their way into international territories in time. The first such store opened in Japan in November.
The London store is expected...
GarageBand 1.0.1
Apple posted a GarageBand 1.0.1 update today.
According to the info page, this 21MB update "clarifies specific alert dialogs regarding system performance."
Apple first introduced Garageband at MacWorld San Francisco in January...
Apple iTunes Pre-Paid Cards
iPodLounge posts a photo of new iTunes Gift Cards which will be available at Target stores.
The cards are expected to go on sale as of February 15th. Based on the photo provided, it appears the $15 card will allow customers to purchase 15 songs from the iTunes Music Store.
Napster had previously launched similar Pre-Paid song cards -- also available at...
Buy a Virginia Tech Cluster PowerMac G5
In the wake of news that Virginia Tech would be migrating their Supercomputer Cluster from PowerMac G5s to Xserve G5s, the fate of the original PowerMacs remained in question. Srinidhi Varadarajan had said they were working on "very good homes" for the historic machines.
It appears MacMall is now selling refurbished PowerMac units from the cluster ($2799 each). Their promo page reads "Own a...
Alias Spin Off?
Alias announced that the company is "involved in exclusive discussions with a leading private equity investment firm for the acquisition of Alias".
The result appears to be a spin-off of the Alias company into an "an independent entity". According to the President of Alias, this would enable Alias "to further expand its business, extend customer value and create significant growth with its...
IBM's 90nm PowerPC 970FX... at 2.5GHz?
IBM's PowerPC 970FX won Microprocessor Report's 5th Annual Analysts' Choice Awards. The 970FX beat out the AMD Athlon 64 FX-51 and Intel Pentium 4.
Of more interest, however, is this abstract for an article entitled "IBM Takes the Lead" at the Microprocessor Report.
The author expects the 90nm PowerPC 970 to scale well: The 970FX should yield well at 2.5GHz, up from the 2GHz speed of the...
IBM Delivering 90nm Chips?
According to this Electronics Weekly article, IBM is about to begin delivering 90nm chips to Apple: IBM is about to deliver its very first volume production of an SOC on 90nm, said Reeves. This will be a design for Apple.
Unclear is the significance of the "SOC" (System-on-Chip) -- whether this represents any new information, or somehow simply refers to the 970 chip.
The Xserve G5s utilize the ...
Palm Cobalt and Mac Support
Brighthand.com provided a brief preview of the upcoming Palm OS Cobalt featured at the PalmSource conference on February 10th. It appears Mac syncing, however, is not in the works: Mr. Slotnick .... made it clear that PalmSource isn't developing a Mac version of the Palm Desktop. As the way the PIM apps work has changed significantly, this means Mac users won't be able to HotSync without...
Enterprise Sales Exec Leaves Apple
ThinkSecret is reporting that Sebastian Gunningham, an executive from Apple's enterprise sales division, has left for a CEO position at Peace Software Inc.
Significance of the departure is...
iPod Minis... Coming
First stock of iPod Mini's should start appearing in Apple stores on February 16th.
The initial batch of iPod Mini shipments, however, will be of very limited quantities.
The iPod Mini was introduced at MacWorld San Francisco 2004 in January. Related Link: iPod Mini Photos...
Virtual PC 6.1.1 Updater
Microsoft has released version 6.1.1 of Virtual PC for the Mac.
The new version "addresses security issues and bugs related to running upcoming Windows XP Professional service packs."
Virtual PC 7 (providing G5 support) had previously been announced for release in the first half of...
Apple Retail Employee Concerns
Appleinsider posts a small blurb about some Apple Retail employee concerns regarding store bonuses and...
iLife Shipping with New Macs
Apple's online store is now promoting that iLife '04 is now shipping with all new macs. (graphic)
iLife '04 was announced at MacWorld San Francisco and has been shipping as a separate product since Jan 15 for current Mac owners. iLife '04 comes free with all new...
Safari 1.2 Details
David Hyatt posts a detailed log of improvements that can be found in Safari 1.2.
Changes cover LiveConnect, Downloads, Printing, Accessibility, CSS, DHTML, Caching and more...
Safari 1.2 was recently released by Apple for Mac OS X 10.3...
iTunes Europe... More Delays?
The worldwide launch of Apple's iTunes Music store remains a mystery.
Apple has previously announced/hinted at the upcoming availability of the iTunes Music Store in Japan and Europe. Apple has also been clearly pursuing licensing agreements in Canada as far back as October 2003.
While the most recent expectations have placed a European launch for "the first half of 2004", a recent report...
