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
Avid and Apple Project?
Looprumors claims Apple and Avid are working together:
Sources have confirmed that Apple is working closely with Avid to help develop a new product that is highly under wraps code named the "Bob Box." A late Spring release is set....
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Upcoming iMac Features/Pricing - Feb 4th
With Powermacs and LCDs updated on Tuesday... all eyes turn to the iMacs as the next updates. Scattered rumors of iMac updates started spreading prior to MacWorld Expo SF 2003. Rumors were dampened immediately before MWSF with reports from ThinkSecret that the iMacs would not be upgraded at that time.
Despite unconfirmed reports that the iMacs would be coupled with the PowerMac and LCD...
40GB Toshiba Hard Drives
iPoding notes that Toshiba now lists a 40GB version of the 1.8" HD that is used in Apple's iPod.
10GB and 20GB versions of Toshiba's drives were announced in January 2002 and then found their way into Apple's iPods in March 2002 (10GB) and July 2002...
Apple High Density LCD?
MacWhispers claims Apple is working on a high density LCD display, with a 16:10 aspect ratio and a 3840x2400 pixel resolution. MacWhispers previously incorrectly predicted Apple's 20" LCD specs and...
Xserve RAID to use Firewire?
MacWhispers claims that the upcoming Xserve RAID enclosure will utilize 1394b instead of Fibre Channel as previously announced by...
10.2.4: Thursday, Jan 29th
RailHeadDesign says Thursday for the Mac OS X 10.2.4...
Apple HDTV Tuner?
Mudbug notes that TechTV reported today that part of the reasoning behind the price drop on the 23" Apple LCD is that Apple intends to bring out a 23" HDTV-Tuner enabled...
PowerMac and LCD Rumor WrapUp - Winners and Losers
Apple released PowerMacs and a new 20" LCD monitor on Tuesday. After such a release, we try to trace back to find where information was first leaked on these projects.
PowerMacs
PowerMac rumors have been relatively scarce in recent months. MacBidouille posted information back in December 2002 that March 2003 may be the delivery time for new PowerMacs... but this diverged from...
New PowerMac and LCD Tips and Tidbits
Some collected information on new hardware:
New PowerMacs are Mac OS X-Only (booting) (old OS 9 models are available)
The Low End PowerMac is now a single-processor machine (Was a dual 867)
Apple's 20" LCD appears to require Mac OS X v10.2 (presumably for drivers).
Apple's now discontinued 22" LCD can be found for $1499 from retailers.
Noise problems claim to be solved in the new...
New PowerMacs and 20inch LCD from Apple
New PowerMacs and a 20" LCD has been released by Apple.
Previous rumors were remarkably accurate. Rumor wrapup to follow.
$1499, 1GHz G4, FW800, 256MB, Geforce4MX
$1999, Dual 1.25GHz G4, FW800, 256MB, Radeon 9000 Pro
$2699, Dual 1.42GHz G4, FW800, 512MB, Radeon 9000 Pro, SuperDrive
$699, 17" LCD
$1299, 20" LCD (1680x1050)
$1999, 23" LCD
iMacs appear...
Apple Store Down
Apple's online Stores across the world are down. "We'll be back...
XGrid - Confirmed?
This Ars post confirms an Apple distributed computing network product called XGrid
Today at a colloquium for a new tech park at Purdue, Jim Bottom, VP of IT, discussed the new high-load processing capabilities we have on campus, including IBM big iron, as well as three different distributed computing networks... one of which is from Apple. He called it "X-Grid" and said it was a "to be...
iLife, Mac OS X 10.2.4 - This Week
MacFixIt confirms a previous report that Mac OS X 10.2.4 will be coming this week:
There are now well over 100MB of updates to be applied after an install of Jaguar, currently culminating in Mac OS X 10.2.3. In the next few days, Apple will release Mac OS X 10.2.4, again increasing the total amount of updater material. Not to mention all of the individual iApp and security updates. ...
Big Changes Coming...
MacBidouille posts a report that there are changes a comin'
Google Translation:
Many concordant rumours imply that the APPLE range would be deeply altered very soon.
It should be the case as well for the machines general public, as for the range pro.
APPLE seems very in a hurry to finish some with Mac OS 9.
However, certain configurations of the old range could still remain in...
'Document' - Apple Word Killer
MacWhispers gives a name to a rumor that's been going around that Apple will compete head to head against Microsoft Word. Besides the application's name "Document", the only other info seems to be that it will support a wide variety of input/output formats.
Reliability is in question...
It should be noted that this report is less solidly grounded than most items published on ...
iMac to include Front Ports?
MacWhispers reports that the new iMacs will have front-based...
Adobe to drop OS 9 with Photoshop 8
Thinksecret reports that Photoshop 8 will be Mac OS X only.
There was unverified net gossip floating around that Adobe would be dropping Mac support entirely with PS8... but this has yet to be...
40gb iPod for the Osbornes?
Powerpage notes that in one Behind the Scenes video, Jack Osmond reportedly owns a 40gig iPod. Seems...
Apple Superbowl Ad?
And what would Superbowl Sunday be without rumors of Apple's return to this advertising venue...
The Hartford Courant claims that Apple Computer will be featuring their latest Powerbook ad during the Superbowl.
Watch the TV commercials during the Super Bowl on Sunday and you'll see one for Apple Computer Co. that features diminutive Verne Troyer, the Mini-Me in the Austin...
PowerMacs, iMacs and LCD Rumor Roundup
Rumors continue to trickle in as we wait for the newest updates to Apple's hardware.
MacWorld San Francisco 2003 brought us unexpected updates to the Powerbook line with 12" and 17" models introduced... while the iMac line was untouched.
iMac
The iMac was last updated in July 2002 with the introduction of the 17" iMac, but hasn't enjoyed signficant speed bumps since January...
