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
Apple and AMD Hammer
The Inquirer posts more rumors regarding Apple and AMD's relationship...
The galley gossip is that Apple has placed an order for Hammerish chipolatas but it won't launch possibly until early 2004 when Microsoft Palladium comes like a thief in the night for all X86 CPUs everywhere.
Also mentioned is that there would be no standalone Marklar (OS X on x86) -- which would mean...
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Apple's FCC Application for Internal Bluetooth for Laptops... Cancelled?
November 2, 2002, MacRumors posted links to FCC documents on the testing of Apple Bluetooth Modules "to be used only in Apple manufactured computers including the Apple ibook and Apple Titanium."
Test photos and an Apple Bluetooth instruction manual were posted at the FCC site.
The same original link now points to a letter (written on November 4, 2002) from Apple Computer:
Per ...
.Mac Address Book at MWSF
Hints at a .Mac online Address Book appeared in November... and it appears that this feature will be available starting at MacWorld San Francisco. Apple's .Mac page describes the following feature:
.Mac Address Book with contact synchronization
Enjoy access to your key contact information anywhere. Your online .Mac Address Book will soon work with iSync so you can have all your...
No iMac, eMac or Displays?
ThinkSecret reports that no new iMacs, eMacs, displays... or Laptops and PowerMacs at MWSF:
Apple will not use Macworld Expo in San Francisco as a venue to upgrade the iMac, eMac or flat-panel display families, but instead will wait to do so until late January or early February at the latest.
Which leads us to the obvious question... of what will be updated? Best indications ...
17-inch iMac Production Shift
Digitimes reports that the 17" flat-panel iMac will terminate production in June. This production halt appears to be simply related to switching suppliers per ArsTechnica.
Digitimes originally reported that the 15-inch iMac would stop production in October and claims that it has done so.
The 15" iMac is still being offered by Apple at this time.
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iCal 1.0.1, iSync 1.0 Released
Apple today announced the release of iCal 1.0.1, an update to the company's calendar application, and iSync 1.0, the first final release of its synchronization software. Both releases require Mac OS X 10.2.3 and offer performance improvements, bug fixes, and feature tweaks.
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2003/jan/02ical_isync.html
http://www.apple.com/ical/
http://www.apple.com/is...
MWSF 2003 Rumor Tidbits
For the rumor hungry, a few morsels to tide you over...
sebimeyer reports that MacWorld posted a group of predictions from various writers and editors including one interesting bite from Bruce Fraser regarding software news: "I'm under NDA (but it will have something to do with processing pixels)."
mpeg4rules found that a Friday MPEG-4 in 2003 conference will demonstrate ...
2002: Rumor Rejects and Unconfirmed
MacRumors receives many rumor submissions every month -- many of which, unfortunately, can't be verified. Independent rumors which are published are usually based on previous reliability or other corroboration.
Here's a list of items that never made it to the front page:
- Apple branded Presentation Software (iView?)
- Apple vs. RIAA... Apple/iPod/Music purchasing. Slashdot...
MWSF: New Product?
SunSpot.net has an article reviewing Apple in 2002 and looks into 2003. The author writes about the possiblity of a new product:
Recent conversations with folks at Apple have led me to believe the company will make several major announcements next week, among them at least one new product.
Link from Macsufer.com...
MacWorld SF Innovations, March PowerMacs?
MacBidouille posts some unconfirmed information about OS 9 and PowerMacs, along with the following information (Google translation), which hints at PowerMac updates in March:
Commercial APPLE ensured me that there would be announced innovations on January 7 but not of new G4 Pro. The update of these machines having to intervene rather about March....
Motorola 7457 Upgrades
Geek.com posts rumors from a source "in the know" on Apple's 2003 chip plans:
According to the source, the next revision of the Motorola G4+ PowerPC, the 7457, will top out at 1.33 or 1.4GHz (1.0GHz, 1.17GHz, 1.33GHz, 1.40GHz?) in February 2003, and will stick there until July 2003, when another 7457 revision should arrive, promising to push the chip up to a more respectable 1.83GHz...
iMac Prices?
MacNews.net.tc claims to have prices/specs for an upcoming iMac bump at MWSF, which basically represent iMac speed bumps with a corresponding price drop:
15", 800MHz, $999
17", 867MHz, $1199
17", 867 MHz, $1499
17", 1GHz, $1699
MacNews.net.tc is a relatively new site with an unknown rumor record, and this simply may represent educated speculation. Previously, it is the ...
MacWorld San Francisco 2003 Rumors
MacWorld Expo San Francisco 2003 kicks off next week at The Moscone Center in San Francisco.
The event that everyone is waiting for is Steve Jobs' keynote address which has been the traditional announcement event for new product releases. MacWorld SF 2002 brought us the long anticipated LCD iMac.
Recent rumors have been pointing towards both the iMac and eMac lines as potential...
Apple Patent: Dynamic Ornamental Appearance
A patent filed on February 13, 2002 by "Apple Computers, Inc" [sic] reveals a very interesting patent abstract:
The invention pertains to electronic devices capable of dynamically changing their ornamental or decorative appearance, i.e., the outer appearance as seen by a user. The electronic devices generally include an illuminable housing. The illuminable housing, which includes at least ...
Mac OS' New Year...
Matthew Rothenberg summarizes some recent announcements and rumors regarding our favorite computer manufacturer in a recent eWeek article.
In particular, Rothenberg discusses the OS X on x86 rumors (Marklar), and the possibility of Apple marketing OS X on x86 as recently suggested by certain rumors.
The article also hints that Summer is the expected time-frame for Panther (OS X10.3).
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Faster G3's
ThinkSecret has a sparse report that indicates that the G3 will continued to be ramped up in speed.
Think Secret has learned that Apple has taken delivery of faster G3 chips. These higher-speed chips are part of IBM's PowerPC 750fx family.
The iBook is presently the only Mac model that sports the G3...
Microsoft and Macromedia?
TheRegister.co.uk is reporting that rumors abound that Microsoft has Macromedia in its sights for acquisition:
Industry and analyst sources believe Microsoft covets San Francisco, California-based Macromedia's Flash vector graphics design tool and player, which was radically updated this year
The acqusition is speculated to put the future of Java 2 Enterprise Edition at...
Santa Claus is Coming...
For unexplained reasons, SantaClaus.com is presently pointing to Apple.com
The SantaClaus.com domain is owned by Coral Technologies Inc.
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Switch Stories, RSS, Rumors and Happy Ending
- We've opened a specific forum for users to post their own personal Switch Stories.
- A reminder that we have an RSS file (what is it?) published here: https://www.macrumors.com/macrumors.xml
- Forbes joins the fray with a Mac rumor summary which appears to derive its info from this site and related rumor sites.
- General Cybernetics donated an iBook 12.1 to Jason Eric Smith --...
Apple's 10-K Filing
MacCentral explores Apple's Annual Report (SEC form 10-K).
Overall Mac unit sales have been relatively flat from 2001. Laptop sales and "Software, Service and Other Sources" (including the iPod) have enjoyed increases year-to-year... but PowerMac sales remain slow.
MacCentral pulls this pertinent quote from the filing:
"[Apple] believes that many of its current and potential ...
