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
iBook and iMac SE
Spymac provides hints of upcoming iBook and iMac Special Edition (SE) models. Details, however are lacking.
Apple has introduced previous SE models starting back in...
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iBook Specs...
Powerpage provides specs for the upcoming iBooks:
* iBook G3 600 MHz, 128 MB, 20GB, 12", CD-ROM - US$1199
* iBook G3 700 MHz, 128 MB, 20GB, 12", CD-RW/DVD - US$1499
* iBook G3 700 MHz, 256 MB, 30GB, 14", CD-RW/DVD - US$1799
...
iBooks on Tuesday...
After quite a few false starts... MacMinute is reporting that iBooks are due Tuesday.
New iBooks have been rumored for the past few weeks, from various sources. Expected upgrades seem to be relatively small speed...
RealOne and ProTools?
For users waiting for RealOne for Mac OS X, Doug Mann provides this response to his inquiries regarding RealOne for Mac OS X: "sometime at the end of this year, or in the early part of next year".
Not the most encouraging response...
However, professional audio users may be pleased with this rumor... reportedly, DigiWorld on May 31-June 1 will be the venue for Pro Tools for OS...
Mac Demo Scene Contest
MacScene is organizing a Demo competition:
Demo programmers seek to achieve seemingly impossible programming feats
such as real-time ray-tracing, fractal zooms, volumetric lighting,
turbulent flow and other real-time visual effects. Demos are also an art
form with artists and musicians working with the programmers to produce
a powerful composition, awesome 3D models and a...
XServe Release Video
G4Scott notes a quicktime video from XServe's unveiling is now available from Apple.
CNet had some clips from the event as well - but only available in Windows Media and Real...
Rumor Wrapup - Rackmounts and Beyond
After each Apple event, we like to look back over the rumors which yielded accurate information, as well as reevaluate the current rumor scene.
The biggest news happened today, when Apple released XServe, their first rackmount server. Rumors of the rackmount server began back in May 2001 (ThinkSecret), and were recently revived. Actual specs were leaked, but only hours before the release....
XServe and XServe RAID Pictures
Steve Jobs giving his Presentation
Photo of XServe RAID
Photo of XServe with motherboard open
...
Apple Rackmount Event
MacCentral had live coverage
More Detailed Notes - Doc Searls Weblog
1U Server Solution
Called XServe
Dual 1GHZ G4, 256K L2, 4MB DDR L3 cache
up to 2GB DDR SDRAM
a PCI slot with GigabitEthernet (2 total)
Quad ATA/100 drives
CD-ROM
2 64/66MHZ PCI Slots.
"This is the fastest architecture we've ever built," said Jobs
Hot pluggable...
Rackmount Specs Leaked?
JoeK provides us with this MacNytt.com link which claims to have Apple rackmount specs, codenamed High Fidelity:
* 1U rack mounting
* 2x G4/1 GHz (might be of newer type than those of today)
* 2 GB DDR RAM
* 2x 64-bit PCI slots
* 2x Gigabit Ethernet
* 4x hotswappable UltraATA100 120 GB hard drives
* USB
* 800 Mbps FireWire
* Console port ...
New Cases, Faster Performance
MacOS Rumors provides some hints towards markedly improved performance jumps by MacWorld NY, as well as new cases:
We can't promise multi-processor 2GHz G5s, but we can promise a performance leap of more than 100% in processing speed alone over the existing PowerMac....and major leaps in almost every category on the motherboard.
(towards the bottom of the...
Apple Event: Rackmounts?
Thinksecret reports that the Apple media event will take place between 9am-12noon PST Tuesday, May 14th:
"Please join us for the unveiling of our new server," event invitations read.
...
IBM and Motorola Plans...
Newsfactor reports on some developments from IBM regarding the PPC. As well as lays out some plans for both IBM and Motorola:
IBM's PowerPC roadmap, which is completely devoid of any reference to the AltiVec acceleration unit, calls for chip architecture to exceed the 2 GHz barrier in the coming year.
While keeping mum on specifics, the company did say that its upcoming chips...
7470 PPC and Why no G5's.
After publishing possible specs for upcoming PowerMacs, the discussions invariably return to G5s, with people holding out hope that G5's will be released "any day now". However... based on all available information, G5's are likely not expected until 2003 at least.
In Feb 2002, the G4's and Beyond article references a Register article which reports upcoming G4 processors that are to be...
MWNY PowerMac Specs?
An anonymous source provided the following specs for upcoming PowerMac G4's... presumably at MWNY.
1.0 GHz, 1.2 GHz, and dual-1.4 GHz G4's
DDR 333 MHZ
ATA 133 support
4 64 bit PCI
1 AGP
Gigabit Ethernet, Firewire, USB
60, 80, and 120 GB drives
New Superdrive, and faster CDRW.
Built-in Bluetooth
$1599, $2299, and $3299.
These...
PowerMac Rebates...
Many have noted that Apple now provides PowerMac rebates:
800Mhz G4... $200 back
933 G4... $300 back
Dual 1GHz...- $300 back
May 10 - July 7, 2002. Valid with "Big Deal" and "Music On. $100 off" offers.
This brings the PowerMacs to $1399, $1999, and $2699 base prices. Speculation, of course, rises to...
Matrox Video Cards? G5s?
Matrox has something coming on May 14th?...
TheRegister discusses their upcoming card which has been rumored for a while in the Amiga community:
Mr. Ben Hermans posted to ANN.lu about "spill the beans" over Matrox G1000 for OS4. "It destroys the Geforce 4 completely. We've seen it in action already." Later he posts "They have much more than samples. Yes, it will be supported by OS...
Macs, PPC, NeXT... History
O'Reilly posted part 1, and part 2 of an article entitled "Steve Jobs and the History of Cocoa"... which gives a brief overview of Cocoa/Mac OS X's origins. An interesting read, and touches on Star Trek, Apple's attempt at Mac OS on Intel.
Haxor.dk published an interesting overview of the PowerPC processor line... from the 601 to the 8500 designs. (link credit: Peter...
More Jaguar Pictures/Movies
TheMox - actually has movies from Jaguar.
RailheadDesign - has more screenshots from Jaguar.
TheRegister - Screenshots
Mac4Ever -...
Pixar to OS X
This Apple article indicates that Pixar may be moving towards Mac OS X:
Two years later, Pixar Animation Studios, makers of Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Monsters, Inc. and other top-selling animated films, has been finding more and more ways to replace their existing Linux, Sun and Windows-based computer systems with Macintosh computers running Mac OS X.
The article discusses how...
