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 Update
ThinkSecret provides a minor update with their own confirmation that iBook updates are on the way:
Beginning last weekend, rumors were spreading about the release of new iBooks. When? "Soon," one Apple insider said at the time. "That's...
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Jaguar Reviewed...
foniksonik provided this MacThis link which has a review of Jaguar with screenshots.
And Cyril lets us know that MacGeneration has a screenshot and description of scanner support in...
New Apple Advertisment/Promo Details...
GNYC provides details regarding the upcoming Apple advertisments:
In the commercials, celebrities and regular people talk about PowerMac G4's, the new iMac, iPods, Powerbook G4's, and iBooks, and programs like iMovie. Errol Morris was rolling tons of film while people talked and talked about how Mac had changed their lives. Musicians, such as Lou Reed, Spike Lee, Bella Fleck, the CEO...
4-6 Processor Macs? AMD Macs?
MacBidoulle (English Translation) reports on a rumor of the upcoming Rack-Macs:
They clalim that the video will be average (as appropriate), but with lots of processing power... 4-6 CPUs.
Meanwhile,...
Mac Rack Photo
A Photo from WWDC Keynote has surfaced... of the front of the Apple Rackmount Server....
AppleInsider Forums and RumorTracker have the same photo of the unit...
Per comments, it seems authentic... but there's some question if the photo only represents a center portion of the entire unit.
Other WWDC photos are now available at Apple.com...
New Apple Ad... Ain't it Cool?
Matt Pruett and Electic Oz let us know that Harry Knowles of Aint-It-Cool-News has been hinting at being in an upcoming Apple commercial... From his Spiderman Review:
Last night, I was talking to Quint, who was stunned that I still hadnt seen SPIDER-MAN. Anybody that knows me has been stunned. It is simply way out of character that the weekend had passed and I hadnt seen SPIDER-MAN.
...
Firewire... the Official Name
The 1394 Trade Association is pulling its act together and are trying to become a "market maker" of the standard instead of a simply marketing body.
Of note, according to this eeTimes article they've standardized on "Firewire" as their name...
The 1394 Trade Association also hopes to fix the standard's name-recognition problems. Apple has called it IEEE 1394 FireWire, while Sony...
QT6 and Jaguar (10.2): Late Summer
CNet reports that Apple will be releasing Quicktime 6 with Jaguar:
Apple Computer said Monday that it would release QuickTime 6 late this summer, even though it has yet to resolve a licensing dispute over a new file format it plans to adopt.
...
iBook Rumors Persist...
Powerpage persists with rumors of iBook releases as early as this week... with the following specs:
* 600 and 800 MHz G3
* 100 MHz system bus across the line
* ATI Radeon Mobility (16 MB)
* 20 and 30 GB HDDs
* 12.1-inch and 14.1-inch displays
* possible resolution increase in the 14-inch model
...
Rackmount Servers: May 14th
In a very non-Apple move, Jobs revealed today that they would be releasing rack-mounted servers next week.
This eWeek article provides more of the limited details available on these upcoming machines:
Excluding a glimpse at a brushed-metal faceplate resembling the Titanium PowerBook, Jobs declined to provide additional details about the "major release" of a dedicated, rack-mounted...
More WWDC Coverage and Pictures
Spymac has their own notes on the WWDC keynote as well as photos from the event.
The Register has coverage as well.
Apple also has a page with pictures and descriptions of some of the new features in...
Inkwell: Newton Technology
Finally, it seems Newton technology has resurfaced...
Inkwell was rumored back in July, 2000 -- almost 2 years ago. ZDNet had an article complete with screenshots of the software. To see the Newton Rosetta engine in action, see this demonstration in...
WWDC Keynote
MacCentral had live Keynote Coverage:
Hilights
- Interim Mac OS X update between now and Jaguar which is due in late summer
- Sherlock 3: uses HTML, new channels
- Jaguar Finder improvements: integrated search, multithreaded, automatic thumbnails, spring loaded folders
- Quicktime 6 integrated into Jaguar.
- Universal Access
- Quartz Extreme: "Takes the...
WWDC NDA
Per Stepwise, this year's WWDC information may be more difficult to come by:
This year, with the exception of the Keynote, all WWDC sessions are covered by the Apple Developer Connection Terms and Conditions and Prototype License and Confidentiality Agreement.
This is departure from the previous WWDC's, and is explained as such:
The common statement was along the...
WWDC Begins...
WWDC 2002 begins Monday, May 6 2002 in San Jose, California:
Apple's next version of Mac OS X will be previewed at WWDC... with a focus by Apple on future features of Mac OS X.
Rumors of a new mouse and upcoming iBooks have been circulating, but would be an atypical focus of Apple's developer's conference.
Spymac reports having "exclusive" coverage of the event....
Team Macrumors
For those who asked...
MacRumors.com SETI team is up. We're a bit behind... so do your best! :)
A team for Mac and Apple enthusiasts... and rumor mongers. I expect us to have the most SETI's running on a G5 when the time comes... :)
What is SETI?...
10.1.5 and iBooks...
RailHeadDesign reports that Mac OS X 10.1.5 is progressing and we should expect to see it in the next two weeks.
Meanwhile, PowerPage has a small blurb posted on Friday that simply states: "Expect new iBooks next week, details this weekend"
Jon writes in and claims that at CompUSA, iBooks have been marked as "D01" - which reportedly means "discontinued". Anyone with confirmation?...
Apple's Plans for Shake
Daniel and jakk provide info on Shake's plans in the hands of Apple:
"We are excited by the positive response we received after previewing Shake on OS X at NAB, and we are looking forward to delivering another industry-leading application on OS X soon. In addition to OS X, Apple will continue to develop, support and sell Shake on Irix and Linux through the end of 2003, but the upcoming...
New Mouse at WWDC?
YourDailyMac claims that Apple will introduce a new mouse at WWDC (on Monday).
In a suprise move where software rules the headlines, Steve Jobs will on Monday unveil during his keynote speech at the World Wide Developers Conference WWDC, Apples first two button bluetooth mouse.
They provide some other limited details including two buttons and a scroll wheel. Interesting if...
Prototype Quicksilver Server Summary
An eBay item appeared on Thursday claiming to be a Macintosh G4 Quicksilver 2002 Server Logic board. This auction has since been pulled at the request of Apple.
The auction included a picture of the motherboard which appeared to have 4 DDR RAM slots as well as a mysterious port - which is presumed to be 1394b (Firewire2).
Xlr8yourmac.com's webmaster, Mike Breeden, had word of the...
