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
iBooks and G3's
Maccentral quotes Dave Russell, Apple's director of consumer-education mobile products, on the state of the iBook. Of note, he hints that the G4 is not likely to appear in the iBook in the next iteration:
"As for what we're looking for in terms of an education-consumer portable, the G3 chip offers plenty of punch," Russell said. "The performance of the iBook is quite fine right now. The...
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Internet Explorer 5.2 Arrives
Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 5.2 for Mac OS X.
This latest version version 5.2 provides all the latest security and performance enhancements for Internet Explorer5 for MacOSX and a new home page www.msn.com for Internet Explorer. It also provides support for the new Quartz text smoothing feature provided in MacOSX version10.1.5 and later, so text on your screen is easier to...
MotherBoards and iTunes
MacOS Rumors reports to expect MP4 enabled iTunes to come along with Jaguar this (late) summer... and also 8x AGP, 800Mbps Firewire as well as USB 2.
Other details of Apple's adoption of USB 2 has been limited. As well, Apple's ability to bring us Firewire 2 by July was brought into question by this article....
NECC and PowerSchool
The National Education Computing Conference kicks off today in San Antonio, Texas.
Details available in this press release. Apple will be hilighting the following products:
- PowerSchool SIS V3.0 (new version)
- Apple Digital Campus Curriculum (ADCC)
- The Apple Learning Interchange (ALI)
- eMac
- Xserve
...
Jobs to Keynote MacWorld Expo
IDG World Expo announced that Steve Jobs will be delivering the keynote speech at MacWorld New York on July 17, 2002.
"We're looking forward to making this summer's Macworld Conference & Expo a fantastic experience for everyone," said Charlie Greco, president and CEO of IDG World Expo. "Steve's keynote is likely to have a few surprises for us...
Internet Explorer 5.2 on Monday
Obzorg.org reports that Internet Explorer 5.2 for Mac OS X will be released on Monday:
As expected, the update will add Quartz text smoothing for 10.1.5 as well as various security enhancements. There are no major feture changes, though. With this update, the real focus was on improving performance.
Link submitted by Matthew Sparby...
Apple and High-End Graphics?
Spymac reports that Apple will have a major graphics annoucnement at MWNY:
Steve Jobs will shed some light on a long-planned project that will showcase Apple's commitment to the high-end graphics market.
In April, Architosh had discussed the possibiliy of an Apple branded video card. They also refered to a Studio Summit which revealed what the industry wanted to see from...
InkWell and Trackpads
Many users have noted a MacOSRumors blurb about the possible use of InkWell:
When you ponder the purpose of Apple's forthcoming InkWell handwriting-recognition technology, think about the way the trackpad works on PowerBooks and iBooks. Imagine if you could add an inexpensive stylus pen, and enter text much the same way it is done on the trackpad-like area of a Palm handheld or similar...
Apple Acquires Silicon Grail
MacNN reports that Silicon Grail's website has been updated to reflect Apple's purchase of that company.
As previously reported, Silicon Grail publishes Rayz:
RAYZ is a completely new compositing product, written from scratch by Silicon Grails Academy Award winning development team.
RAYZ facilitates the smooth and easy set up of shots. The customizable interface conforms...
G4 iBook at MWNY?
Spymac.com had reported that a minor iBook revision was due at MacWorld NY. Gumac and Kodawarisan provide possible details on such a revision.
The rumors detail a G4 Special Edition 14" iBook due at MWNY.
"Special Edition" iBooks were rumored in mid...
PowerLogix 7455
PowerLogix announced upgrade cards for the PowerMac G4's to speeds from 750 Mhz to 1 Ghz. These new upgrades utilize the new "Apollo" G4s.
These cards will be available in July and August, and provide upgrade paths to the most recent 2002...
Internet Explorer 6
Those of you waiting for the next Internet Explorer release may have to wait a bit longer.
Previously rumored to be holding up 10.1.5, IE 6 now appears to be pushed back a bit further... but does appear to come with significant speed and compliance improvements according to Think Secret....
Jaguar: Mac OS X Server
Slaptech details some upcoming features of the Mac OS X Server version of Jaguar.
Performance and stability seem to be the most signficant features, with improvements in Network, File, Print and Mail...
Apple's Push on Enterprise
Matthew Rothenberg reviews Apple's recent product introductions in this eWeek article. He notes that Apple is planning on further pushes into the enterprise market:
Meanwhile (and perhaps closer to the concerns of most grown-up Mac veterans), my observers in the channel inform me that Apple is planning some new sales offensives to back up the Xserve in professional markets, including...
Apple's Push on Education
eWeek reports that Apple seems to be getting serious about marketing and sales for educational markets, after previous "missteps" in the market in the recent past:
According to a companywide memo issued by Apple CEO Steve Jobs, the Cupertino, Calif., company is combining its education sales and marketing teams into one education business unit that numbers more than 750.
This ...
MPEG-LA Solutions
Newsfactor details possible solutions for the MPEG-4 Licensing issue:
"Among the measures under consideration are (a) reasonable annual limitations on certain royalties (in addition to those for decoders and encoders) in order to provide more cost predictability; and (b) threshold levels below which certain use-based royalties would not be charged in order to minimize the impact of the...
New Apple 'Real People' Ads
CNet reports on Apple's new Ad Campaign which is to be run in Time, Newsweek as well as television spots:
In the largest marketing effort for Apple since its "Think Different" campaign, Apple is planning a series of TV and print ads featuring people who have switched from a PC to a Mac telling their story.
The "Real People" ads, which will start appearing this week,...
Apple Acquires Silicon Grail?
This vfxpro article reports that Silicon Grail has been sold to an undisclosed buyer.
According to vfxpro, Insiders speculate that the buyer is Apple.
Silicon Grail publishes Rayz:
RAYZ is a completely new compositing product, written from scratch by Silicon Grails Academy Award winning development team....
OmniWeb 5.0 in 2003
Newsfactor reports that Omnigroup's OmniWeb will hit version 5.0 in early 2003. The advantages to be expected include speed and accuracy in rendering:
"We're rewriting the whole display engine, everything above the HTML parser, so it no longer misuses Cocoa classes. Instead, we're going to write a lot more custom classes to make our rendering much faster and much more accurate," William ...
Site News: GeekFest, TradeIns, and Store Items
GeekFest is being organized as a gathering for Macrumors community. Planned on July 12-14 in New Orleans. See this thread for details.
Macrumors advertiser PowerMax.com is now offering a trade-in program for old Macs towards the purchase of a new Mac.
Finally, a couple of new items have been added to the MacRumors.com Store. A Wall Clock and a Frisbee....
