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 Producing 65nm Chips?
Team Xbox claims that IBM will be producing 65-nm chips for the upcoming "Xbox 2" and start delivering commercial parts in the next 12-18 months.
In November, Microsoft and IBM announced that the future Xbox would utilize IBM processors. Few details had been available.
IBM produces the PowerPC 970 for Apple's PowerMac G5 which were introduced at a 130nm process. Recently introduced...
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GarageBand Review and iLife '04 Arrives
Mercury News posts the first review of Apple's new GarageBand application. In summary: GarageBand isn't the first computer program that lets you compose music and remix existing songs -- but it might break new ground in how simple it makes the process.
GarageBand ships with iLife '04 which should appear in Apple Stores and Apple Resellers today.
Related Forums: GarageBand Discussion and Other ...
Apple Retail Store Change on the 19th?
Sources familiar with Apple Retail's Graphics and Visuals plans have indicated that January 19 or 20 will bring an updated look to at least some of the graphics in the U.S. retail stores and the possibility of new products to go along with these visual changes.
(Readers are reminded that some items are posted to Page 2, not due to questions of reliability, but due to lack of...
No Apple Superbowl Ad?
CNN Money reports on the high prices for ads at the upcoming Super Bowl.
This Super Bowl marks the 20th anniversary of Apple's famous 1984 Super Bowl television commercial. A recent article in AdAge noted that Apple was considering a Super Bowl ad to mark this anniversary, however, the CNN article reveals that there are no plans to do so at this time: Incidentally, a spokesman for Apple...
Virginia Tech Cluster Moving to Xserve G5s?
ThinkSecret provides some confirmation on earlier rumors that Virginia Tech will be migrating from PowerMac G5s to Xserve G5s in their recently assembled Supercomputer cluster.
MacRumors has also received multiple confirmations of the planned upgrade, but varying reports as to the fate of the original PowerMacs used in the cluster. According to ThinkSecret, Apple will be providing a...
Finale 2004 OS X Shipping on Jan 16th
MakeMusic.com has announced that Finale 2004 for Mac OS X is complete and expected to ship on January 16th, 2004.
The Mac OS X native version of the popular music notation software has been long anticipated, with an initial announcement of release back in October 2003 which was met with delays.
The new version will be Mac OS X only, with a version for OS 9 support coming in the...
Logic Pro 6, Logic Express and Soundtrack 1.2
Apple announced updates to their audio applications today:
Logic Pro 6 - Logic Pro 6 consolidates 12 pre-existing, groundbreaking products into one comprehensive package for just $999 (US).
Logic Express - Logic Express 6 provides a basic set of professional tools to allow students and educators to compose and produce music with sophisticated results at an affordable price of $299 (US).
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Sony's Hard Drive MP3 Player
MacWorld.co.uk reports on Sony's newly announced hard-drive based MP3 player -- the Giga Pavit.
The new player from Sony is the first to use the recently announced Cornice 2GB Storage Element. This storage media was announced on January 5th, and was speculated to be used in the (then) rumored Mini iPods. Instead, the iPod Mini uses a 4GB Hitachi Drive.
Sony's 2GB device is expected to...
Appleworks Updated to 6.2.9
Apple released an update to their Appleworks application. This update to AppleWorks 6.0 and later supports mice with scroll wheels and improves the performance and reliability of AppleWorks' presentation and spreadsheet environments. AppleWorks 6.2.9 also offers improved printing and resolves issues using web based templates and clip-art on networks using proxy servers....
Apple posts $63 Million Profit
Apple announced at $63 Million Profit for its First Quarter ending December 27, 2003. Apple shipped 829 thousand Macintosh units during the quarter, up 12 percent from the year-ago quarter, as well as 733 thousand iPod units, up 235 percent from the year-ago quarter.
It was an outstanding quarter for Apple, with double-digit unit and revenue growth and over 730,000 iPods sold, said Steve Jobs, ...
IBM Announces Mac OS X Compilers
IBM has announced the final versions of the XL C, XL C++, and Fortran compilers for Mac OS X.
These PowerPC 970 (G5) processor optimized compilers were previously released in Beta form and showed promising performance advantages.
("Compilers" take source code (programming language) and converts it into a binary (actual application) which the processor (PowerPC 970) can then...
Logic Platinum Software Update?
Appleinsider reports that Apple will be announcing a new version of Logic Platinum at NAMM -- which kicks off...
iLife '04 Shipping
Several readers note that their iLife '04 software orders have started shipping as of today (Jan 14th, 2004).
Apple's iLife Suite offers iTunes, updated versions of iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD and Apple's new GarageBand application.
The $49 product should also become available at local Apple Stores and Apple Resellers on Janaury 16th,...
iPod Pricing and Future?
Appleinsider reports on some vague rumors of future iPod pricing and iPod distribution deals.
According to the rumor site, Apple is planning on reducing the pricing of the iPod Mini by $50 "as soon as humanly possible". The iPod Mini is currently priced at $249, which is in-line with in line with Rio's recently announced Nitrus 4GB player which retails at the same price.
Appleinsider also...
iPod Mini in the Media and on TV?
A week after the introduction of the iPod Mini's, the initial furor appears to be dying down. While several have argued concerns about the price, one Wall Street Journal Column (Paid) offers an alternative perspective: We don't want to sound like some annoying old relative, but these critics missed the rather elementary fact that different people care about different things. For every buyer of an ...
More on iPod and WMA [Updated... No?]
Despite some uncertain rumors (Page 2) that Apple may be working on WMA for iPod, there are further hints that Apple has avoided this route. According to an article in the Wall Street Journal (Paid): Musicmatch President Peter Csathy says Musicmatch users can transfer songs purchased on the site to more than 60 portable devices that support Windows Media. Musicmatch says it has asked Apple to let ...
Xserve G5s to Replace PowerMacs in 'Big Mac'?
A Slashdot comment offers up an interesting rumor floating around Blacksburg, VA. The rumor here on campus [Virginia Tech] is that Apple is going to let them trade the G5 towers for G5 XServes, 1:1. So if you are wondering where the first 1100 XServes are going, look no further than Blacksburg.
Now, Slashdot comment postings do not make for reliable sources, but we've since received further word...
Soundtrack 1.2 - Soon?
According to a few reports, Soundtrack 1.2 should be released shortly. No word on new features. Soundtrack 1.1 as only recently released in December.
Possible hints that pricing of the application could drop to $199... but...
iPod and WMA Support?
Slashdot notes that a Mr. Paul Thurrott writes "The company [HP] will be working with Apple to add support for Microsoft's superior Windows Media Audio (WMA) format to the iPod by mid-year."
Readers should note that Paul Thurrott has historically had an anti-Mac bias with the dubious distinction of being unable to correctly draw a graph.
In November, when asked about supporting WMA, Steve...
Apple GarageBand Tips and Detailed Info
A lot of questions have been circulating around about the upcoming Apple GarageBand Application, with many questions being posed in our GarageBand Forums
GarageBand (screenshots) is due with the rest of the iLife '04 suit which was announced to arrive on January 16, 2004. Here is a compilation of interesting tips and hints based on the GarageBand Help Files:
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- Real Instrument...
