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
Jaguar $50 Rebate
MacNN notes that Amazon.com is offering a $50 mail-in rebate for Mac OS X 10.2.
Purchases must be made between 7/29/02 and 9/03/02, and postmarked by October 03, 2002.
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Apple and Star Office (Sun)
CNet reports that Apple and Sun are cooperating on a version of Sun's Star Office for Mac OS X.
The partnership is expected to produce a Java-based version of OpenOffice by the end of the year, followed by a commercial StarOffice release sometime in 2003.
"I think you can see OpenOffice running solid on OS X by the end of this calendar year," said Tony Siress, Sun's senior...
Piracy and Mac OS X
Spymac reports that due to rampant piracy of pre-Jaguar builds, Apple is considering moving towards anti-piracy measures including serial numbers.
More at Spymac......
Apple Junkyard
Apple has applied for a trademark for Junkyard on July 12, 2002:
G & S: computer hardware; computer software; computer peripherals; instructional manuals packaged in association therewith.
iPicture and Gigawire have been other recent Apple trademarks which has yet to become part of announced...
DeskMac Hoax
An anonymous user claimed that Apple registered DeskMac.com which points to Apple.com.
Registration information lists Apple Computer, but not under their usual registration id, and utilizes non-Apple domain name servers. The domain appears to be hoax registration.
This news item was posted to curb speculation/rumors on this domain name.
Historically, Apple has owned domain...
Microsoft Pricing Survey
ThinkSecret speculates that Microsoft may be considering a new pricing scheme for Mac Office:
New market research surveys are currently being conducted with end users on Microsoft's behalf. The survey questions reveal, at the very least, what is being considered as possibilities for the future.
Brian forwarded MacRumors.com the email/survey link in question:
...
Multimedia Device?
MacEdition posted a small blurb reporting that security has been heightened at a recently reclaimed Apple location (Mariani One), which became occupied by Sun in 1996.
According to MacEdition, the heightened security is to protect Apple's latest efforts:
These efforts include future iPod revs, to be sure, but Apples own Area 51 is apparently the proving ground for at least one...
PCI-Express
Digitmag is reporting that specs for the PCI-Express and PCI-X protocol have been released:
PCI Express is the next evolution of PCI technology, which allows internal components of a PC, such as the microprocessor, to communicate with devices (such as graphics cards) attached through expansion slots.
PCI-X is a bus technology used within computers to allow chips to exchange data at ...
ATI in PowerMacs
This ATI Press Release reports that the Radeon 7500 is the card of choice in the PowerMac G4:
The RADEON 7000 will be featured in the IBM NetVista M Series, the HP Compaq Presario 6000 series and the Dell Precision Workstation 340 while the RADEON 7500 is the card of choice for Apple's PowerMac G4, Hewlett-Packard's EVO-310, Fujitsu's FMV-DESKPOWER and Dell's Optiplex GX260.
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Jaguar for Developers
Jaguar is reportedly available to Select and Premier-level members of the ADC (Apple Developer Connection) .
The current seed is build 6C106 and is the first public developer release of Jaguar since WWDC in May.
ThinkSecret reports that iSync and iCal are not included in this...
DDR PowerMacs Aug 5th
MacBidouille posts unconfirmed information on upcoming PowerMacs (english)
- Possible date of August 5th
- 166*2 (333MHz) DDR RAM
Previous rumors suggested August 13th as the expected date. ...
G5? Not Quite...
On Jul 22, Motorola released the PowerPC MPC8560--the latest version of its e500 processor, a communications chips which also bears the name G5. Note, this is not the same class of processor used in Macintosh computers.
The chip, however does incorporate a DDR SDRAM memory controller as well as a RapidIO interconnect.
RapidIO is a high-performance "interconnect" technology that...
Apple Disc Recording Update
Now found in your Software Update (OS X):
The Disc Recording Update delivers additional iTunes and Finder
support for a number of LaCie, EZquest, and Iomega CD-R devices. For a
specific list of supported devices, visit the Apple CD-R Compatibility site
at www.apple.com/itunes/notes.html.
Submitted by Dan...
Apple Office?
MacOSXRumors posts a rumor that Apple may be positioning Appleworks against Office, and also suggest the possibility of free-version to be bundled with machines, similar to other iApps.
Meanwhile, ThinkSecret reports that MS Office OS X may bring OS X Service support with Jaguar...
Shake for OS X
Apple released Shake for OS X:
Shake 2.5 will be available for Mac OS X for a suggested retail price of $4,950 (US) with annual maintenance of $1,199 (US), and for Linux, IRIX and Windows for a suggested retail price of $9,900 (US) with annual maintenance of $1,485 (US). Existing Shake customers will be given the option to double the number of their existing licenses at no additional...
Further Details Regarding Leaked Pro Mac
Some final details are filled in by AppleP58, author of the PDF:
- it is a slim power supply, originally identical to the XServe's with two fans 'attatched' to the end of it (as you may see in older photographs). The final product is 2 inches longer with the 2 fans built in (3 fans in power supply total)
- has a slide-on back cover which pulls off to access the IDE and power cables
- ...
Leaked Pro Mac Photo Summary
A MacRumors forum user posted a copy of this PDF (removed per Apple) on Friday, Jul 19, 2002 claiming to be a diagram of an upcoming PowerMac G4 design along with some details.
While trying to verify the information in the PDF, the author posted a thread with the PDF, while MacBidouille posted actual photos which corresponded with the images found in the PDF.
Meanwhile, a MacRumors...
Pro Mac Photos?
MacBidoulle posted images claiming to be of the new PowerMacs. The design is also detailed by this PDF. (removed per Apple)
Further comments provided by the author of the PDF posted in this MacRumors thread
Previously submitted details from the PDF author:
- the heatsink is a very large aluminum straight finned squared design. about 6" x 7" x 6" approx and weighs about 7 lbs;...
Apple Security Update 7-18-02
Apple Security Update 7-18-02
Security Update 7-18-02 delivers a more secure Software Update service, as well as an updated Software Update command line tool, to verify that future updates originate from Apple. If you would prefer to download this manually from a secure Apple server you can download the package at www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n75304
As previously
No Apple PDA
Financial Analyst Meeting Webcast also provides more information about Steve Jobs' view of PDA's.
(26m 25s) Steve Jobs speaks about how they decided about 3 years ago, they felt that PDAs would eventually evolve into next generation Cell Phones, and that PDA's will become a smaller market.
This is not the first time that Apple/Jobs has downplayed the possiblity of an Apple PDA. ...
