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
No New Hardware @ Paris - iCal, iSync... iTunes
ThinkSecret reports that no new hardware will be revealed at Apple Expo in Paris:
Apple CEO Steve Jobs will kick off Apple Expo in Paris this Tuesday, but he will not introduce any new hardware or major hardware upgrades, Think Secret has learned. Hardware product upgrades will also be absent from Seybold.
Spymac has a similar report but indicates that iCal and iSync will be...
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New Switch Ads
New switch advertisments have appeared on Apple's Switch site.
Eight new ads have been added with a focus on end-user applications and Apple's own iApps.
The new ads started running on television during the US Open this...
IBM PPC => No Altivec?
The following was published to a public Apple mailing list:
I attended a briefing today on IBM's high performance computing technology, which is hinged on their Power4 CPU (this CPU has awesome performance in the various real-world benchmarks I have seen). After the briefing, I asked the presenter (a chief engineering manager from IBM) about the Power4 derivative for desktops and low end ...
New Switcher Ads this Weekend
Apple announced new switch ads are coming this weekend:
Apple's second series of ads featuring real people who have switched from PCs to the Mac will debut during CBS's broadcast of the U.S. Open tennis tournament this Saturday and Sunday. The six new ads feature "switchers" from a wide variety of backgrounds: an attorney, a veterinarian, a trucking company owner, a software manager and...
19inch iMacs?
The Inquirer cites a story from the Taiwan Economic News which reports that 19inch iMacs are due in Q4.
15 inch iMac production had previously been reported to be slowing down in October per a previous Digitimes...
Single Processor PowerMacs
Spymac suggests that an all-dual Pro Line is not necessarily here to stay:
If recent rumors are to be believed, the next Power Mac revision -- still many months away -- will reintroduce the familiar mixture of single and paired-up processors we've become accustomed to.
Dual Processor machines help make up for apparent MHz number differences between current PPC and x86 chips, ...
More .Mac Incentives
MacMinute notes that Apple is offering further incentives for .Mac subscribers.
100 Free Kodak Prints (via iPhoto)
Free Alchemy Deluxe Game
Save $5 on Bejeweled Deluxe
Existing .Mac subscribers can log into their .Mac accounts to activate/get these new features.
.Mac is expected to further integrate into existing and future...
PowerLogix Dual G4 Upgrades
PowerLogix is releasing two new processor upgrade cards:
PowerForce Dual G4 Series 100
PowerForce Dual G4 Series 133
Dual G4-7450 or G4-7455, Speeds up to 1GHz. Speeds range from 800MHz to 1GHz... with faster models available later. The models reflect the bus speed of the machine to be upgraded.
All PowerForce Dual models include 2MB of L3 cache, which is twice what...
IBM AltiVec
Architosh posts some speculation/interpretation about two posts regarding gcc.
The tentative conclusion is that IBM's PowerPC64 supports Altivec.
Speculation of the new chip started after a description of an upcoming chip appeared on the conference schedule for Microprocessor Forum 2002. Since then, rumors of Apple-IBM talks over the new chip emerged. PenguinPPC initially reported...
iPods for the Masses
CNet reports that Apple will be selling iPods at Best Buy later this month:
Starting Sept. 15, Best Buy will carry two Windows models and a Mac iPod in more than 500 retail stores, adding to the 35 Apple retail stores and 225 CompUSAs selling the digital music player.
Analysts are positive about this move from Apple and feel it will increase sales significantly. In the past,...
1 GHz and 1.2 GHz Upgrades
MacBidouille provides numbers to the rumored processor upgrades:
Dual 1GHz and Dual 1.2GHz from PowerLogix
Still unconfirmed... announcement rumored this...
MacScene.org Demo Contest Results
Lana writes:
Every year macscene.org hold a demo contest to stimulate the production of more demos for the Macintosh platform. This year's contest has resulted in the release of four really fantastic demos, and it is now up to the public to decide the winner.
These demos are really worth downloading, and please also come back to vote after watching the demos - it only takes a few ...
Processor Upgrades
CubeZone expects dual 1Ghz processor upgrades coming sometime this week.
MacOSRumors also hints at dual processor updates in "a few days" for PowerMacs but offers no speeds for these upgrades. They do, however, mention a possibility of upgrading older CRT...
ATI Mobility Radeon 9000
Several have noted that ATI has announced the ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 (review).
This has naturally spawned speculation in the rumor community that upcoming Powerbooks will sport the new chipset, which will be first utilized in a Compaq Presario in September.
ATI's Mobility Radeon 9000 Media Images picturing a Titanium Powerbook has also raised...
Logic Platinum 5 for Mac OS X
Emagic has released Logic Platinum for OS X:
Emagic GmbH is proud to announce the release of the very first version of Logic Platinum 5 for Mac OS X. This is accompanied by the simultaneous release of Mac OS X hardware drivers for Emagic's range of USB MIDI and audio interfaces.
This pages discusses some of the differences in the OS X version.
Apple acquired Emagic in...
MacWorld Boston and Cruise Ships
BusinessToday brings more reports of a MacWorld return to Boston. Trade show organizer, Charlie Greco seems serious about the move back to Boston:
Macworld's organizer said yesterday that he is willing to bring in two cruise ships as makeshift hotels if local hoteliers don't meet pricing requests for the huge trade show.
Fresh off his first meeting with Mayor Thomas M. Menino,...
PowerBooks, iBooks, BlueTooth
Spymac provides some further hints regarding updates in the portable line.
They write that PowerBook updates may be coming sooner than MacWorld SanFrancisco, of bluetooth in PowerMacs and further hints towards Special Edition iBooks.
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Marklar - x86 OS X
eWeek reports on an internal Apple project named "Marklar":
According to sources, the Cupertino, Calif., Mac maker has been working steadily on maintaining current, PC-compatible builds of its Unix-based OS.
The article discusses this as a fall-back plan, should the PowerPC fail to deliver... however, does not expect Marklar to become significant in the near future. An...
Motorola at 90-nanometers
Reuters reports that Motorola, STMicroelectronics and Philips have partnered to produce 90-nm chips:
U.S. based Motorola said on Friday its partnership with two other semiconductor makers will probably be the first to produce a new generation of microchips, beating Intel by at least six months
No details on how this will influence PowerPC...
Firewire 2 (1394b) Evidence
While widely suspected, Firewire 2 ports were indeed designed/evaluated for the most recent PowerMac design that was released in August. This is based on an Apple design PDF which was unintentionally exposed on Apple's servers. The PDF was quickly removed.
1394b (or Firewire 2) was approved this year in March, however, due to the lag time before finalization it was not expected until...
