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
Low End G4 Box?
MacPlus.org is reporting that one marketing report floating around Apple proposes the possibility of revamping of its product line with the introduction of a low-end G4 "box" with 32MB VRAM, and 256MB RAM. Target price is reportedly $599.
Such a target price is said to be realistic, and comes with expectations of significant sales gains in consumer and small/home office markets. Impact on ...
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Motorola at 0.09?
MacBidouille's latest report provides some potential Motorola information.
ZeeOwl again provides translation:
According to an internal source (thank-you Superced) Motorola has started producing 0.09 m chips in their Crolles 1 plant.
The go on to speculate the implications of this...
That's all we know, but if Motorola manages to produce G4s this...
Transcript of Jobs at All Things Digital
Bag and Baggage blog provides a paraphrased transcript of Mossberg's interview of Steve Jobs at D: All Things Digital.
Some notes were posted on Thursday on PowerPage.org indicating that no Apple PDA or Apple phone was in the works.
This transcript fills in details from Jobs'...
32GB Max Memory?
ZeeOwl provides a translation of the latest motherboard rumor from MacBidouille:
OK, take this with a major dose of salt, as usual.
The dual-processor motherboards should have 8 memory slots in all. There seems to be 4 per processor. These slots are currently compatible with 4 GiB memory modules. Therefore we should have a maximum memory capacity of 32 GiB !!
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Odd 970 Photos
Linked from AppleTurns.com, it appears IBM has posted, what can only be described as pseudo-erotic photos, of the PowerPC 970. The photos (1, 2, 3) depict the PowerPC 970 in various compromising positions posing with...
FibreChannel on Motherboard?
As a followup to the PPC 970 ports article, MacBidouille claims that one or two of the unidentified connectors is FiberChannel.
FibreChannel is a high-bandwidth data transfer architecture that is used by Apple to interface with its Xserve RAID solution. This requires an add-on Fibre Channel PCI card to be installed into the Xserve or PowerMac.
Of note, MacBidouille's articles have...
iPod <-> iPod Cable?
MacWhispers reports that a new iPod dock cable -- one with a full-dock connector on each end -- is to go into production over the next 30days. According to the site, the other iPod cables in production limit the actual wires to the functions being utilized, while this one has all 32 wires in...
OLED Displays in iPods?
ThinkSecret reports that according to their sources, Apple is considering Organic Light-Emitting Diode (OLED) technology and is planning on using it as early as next year in upcoming iPods -- with possible expansion into displays and laptops later on.
OLED technology has received a lot of attention this past year -- with many speculating their uses in future Apple hardware. This is the...
Apple and Universal... Again?
NYDailyNews.com reports that Steve Jobs and Universal may be talking again -- but talks appear to be a bit tamer:
The Apple Computer boss, who just launched the iTunes digital music store, has been talking to board members of Vivendi Universal about making an equity investment in Universal Music Group, sources told the Daily News.
Rumors of a Universal buyout by Apple in early...
PowerPC 970 Predictions
MacOSRumors posts a laundry list of predictions that they feel may be in the coming machines... but remain sufficiently uncertain:
Keep in mind that the first 970-based Macs may not be PowerMacs, but rather Xserves or quite possibly, an entirely new model popularly dubbed the Xstation.... and of course this is the Year of the Powerbook, so a surprise such as the 970 premiering first in a ...
RealPC Delayed
Spymac reports that FWB's reincarnated RealPC will be delayed "a few weeks" due to ongoing OS X updates.
A demo version was reportedly slated for June 1st... but will also be delayed.
Talk of the return of RealPC emerged in early April after Microsoft acquired Virtual PC from Connectix. A subsequent interview...
New Motherboard Details?
MacBidouille details some features they claim to be on the upcoming motherboads.
The ports are described and include 2 FW800 ports, 1 FW400 port, 3 USB, 3 Audio Connectors, as well as 5 additional unidentified connectors (in a group of 3 and...
No Apple PDA, No Apple Cell Phone?
PowerPage has what appears to be first notes from the "D: All Things Digital" conference. This conference is hosted by The Wall Street Journal and brought Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Steve Case along with other speakers for interviews and discussions.
According to PowerPage, Jobs echoes previous statements that he feels that PDAs are not in Apple's future, nor do they feel they can add much...
iPods to Return to Target?
ThinkSecret notes there have been a few hints that iPods will be returning to Target this...
WWDC: 64-Bit ProjectBuilder?
Mac Edition's Naked Mole Rat Report indicates that WWDC may bring a dramatically improved 64-bit Project Builder -- allowing developers to migrate to the PowerPC 970 based machines.
This rumor provides further hints at overt PowerPC 970 discussion at WWDC. The timing of hardware introductions, however, remains up for...
AAC Support in Tivo's HomeMedia
MacMinute reports that a TiVo spokesperson has indicated that they are working with Apple to support AAC files.
Apple has started selling TiVO's at select Apple Stores, and TiVo's Home Media option has provided Mac support for sharing photos and songs from your computer. ...
RealNetwork's Rhapsody
RealNetworks launched their music download service today -- called RealOne Rhapsody. The new service is Windows-only and provides a hybrid model - with both subscription and per-download sales.
RealOne RHAPSODY offers consumers unlimited, ?all you can eat? access to the broadest library of major and independent label music with more than 330,000 tracks available for on-demand listening...
Safari GM?
There are reports that Safari v78 is Gold Master (GM) and have been seen in the wild. According to MacBidouille each version distributed to seeders had a unique id associated with it... to help find the source of the ongoing...
MacRumors.com 2002-2003 Contributor's Mug
MacRumors.com is now offering a 2002-2003 Contributor's Mug for users who wish to contribute to this site.
This year's Mug is a 16oz Frosted Glass Mug, with the MacRumors.com logo/name on one side, and a list of products/rumors from the 2002-2003 rumor season. Total cost of the Mug and contribution is $32.
Readers who wish to contribute, but don't need a Mug may contribute via Paypal ...
iTunes 4.0.1
iTunes 4.0.1 update was released today via Software Update.
iTunes is the only software you'll ever need to build & manage your music collection on your Mac.
iTunes 4 features superior sound quality including support for MPEG-4 AAC audio. iTunes 4.0.1 includes a number of performance and network access enhancements, and only allows music sharing between computers using iTunes 4.0.1 ...
