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
DVD Update Again
Another DVD Player Update is available... (3.1.1)
Though it's unclear what advantages it provides over the previous...
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New Apple Ad for iMac
Several readers report a new Apple Ad airing on Fox and NBC this evening. The most complete description is from MacLuver23:
I was watching Futurama this Thursday (3/7/02) and at the end of the episode they showed a new iMac commercial. They are not the two short films though. But its really funny. Its not on Apple's site yet but it should be soon. It involves a guy walking down...
Corporate Apple? Hiring Indian Programmers
According to this BusinessWeek article, Apple is looking into the corporate market (again):
Now, Apple has quietly made its next move. It has signed up a number of software developers in India to write business applications for OS X and port over (that's geek talk for "convert") existing Unix or Windows programs. Apple has kept quiet about this plan. News of the deal broke in the...
Apple Ad during Oscars
G4scott wrote in the forums:
According to Mac Minute, Apple has bought a spot for a TV commercial during the oscars on March 24th. Now, think of the date, the 24th...
*Original Macintosh was released on the 24th
*Mac OS X was released on the 24th
*According to someone's post, Jobs's birthday is on the 24th of some month (if you know, please reply!)
*Apple has ...
Florida Apple Store
Jim Sander writes in that the Orlando Sentinal reports on a new Mall in Florida which revealed new tenants... including Apple Computer, Inc.
The Mall is not scheduled to open until October.
offical press release...
MPEG-4 Alternatives
Slashdot linked to this Salon article which discusses MPEG-LA's licensing terms and how this opens the market up to cheaper (though less powerful) technologies...
Somewhat encouraging is this quote:
"At the end of the day, MPEG-LA is in the business of marketing a license," says Larry Horn, vice president of licensing and business development MPEG-LA. "If this technology goes...
OS X 10.2 Minimized Windows
In case you missed the previous OS X 10.2 screenshots, here's another link with some images from OS X 10.2.
Of note, it demonstrates how you can drag minimized windows outside of the dock.
link submitted by Joel and...
More Dreamweaver Shots
Spymac posted more screenshots from Dreamweaver MX... as well as a short quicktime movie demonstrating how quickly it launches on a iMac 800Mhz.
I count...
Jobs to Keynote MW Tokyo
Matt writes in with the official link that Steve Jobs will keynote at MacWorld Tokyo:
http://www.idg.co.jp/expo/macworld2002/en/20020304.html
IDG today announced that Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO, will deliver the opening keynote address at Macworld Tokyo 2002, the largest Macintosh event in Japan. This year's Macworld Tokyo will take place at Tokyo Big Sight March 21-23, 2002,...
Dreamweaver MX and Mystery Education Products
Kid Red noted: ThinkSecret updates with Dreamweaver MX preview as well as with rumors of Apple introducing new educational software... one item which is dubbed the "Digital Locker".
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More 10.2 Shots
More screenshots from 6B11 of OS X 10.2
Not very much exciting, but provides some images that you may not have seen.
Update: images pulled from original site.
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No Processor Upgrades Yet...
madamimadamtimallen posted this Newsfactor article from the 27th which explores why Mac processor upgrades have not progressed:
Aside from the technical issues, Sonnet said current pricing on the latest G3 and G4 chips makes faster upgrades impractical.
"These new chip prices are high, so the economics do not yet work out to offer the market a reasonably priced product,"...
Divx 5.0 Released
Divx Networks released Divx 5.0 today....
DivX 5.0 raises the bar for video technologies everywhere with a universal architecture, increased optimizations and encoding performance, significantly improved visual quality, MPEG-4 compatibility including a new MPEG-4 based DivX file format, a complete command line interface for advanced users, and a host of other improvements that will...
RealOne on Intel Motherboards
CNet reports on a deal between Intel and Real Networks, integrating Real technology into Intel motherboards:
RealOne, the successor to the popular RealPlayer and RealJukebox, will be released in its final version this week and will be bundled with motherboards that Intel sells for use in so-called white box, or generic, PCs, the companies said.
Details are limited, but it...
IBM Germaniun Tech in PPC?
The Boston Globe gives some more information on the new 110Ghz communication chips from IBM announced last week.
While these chips are different from standard CPU's (including the PPC)... they do note that "Nintey-nine percent of the process steps are common.":
That means that IBM can...
Microsoft "Threatens" Pulling Out?
Spymac gave a heads up on a Washington Post article that reports Microsoft may threaten to pull Windows:
Microsoft Corp. plans to argue in court hearings next week that if antitrust sanctions sought by state prosecutors are granted, the company would be forced to pull its latestWindows computeroperating systems off the market and be unable to develop new systems....
Flash MX Announced
Macromedia Announces Flash MX with Mac OS X support.
Ships in March for $499. More details available at their site....
Fireworks MX Pictures...
ThinkSecret posted further images from Macromedia:
New information indicates that Flash MX will be announced early this week, and that it will ship later in March.
(link submitted by Andrew Duch and...
Apple and 3GIO?
This NewsFactor article discusses an upcoming technology designed to replace PCI/AGP... and probably involvement/support from Apple:
Now, Apple may be poised to push another standard called 3GIO, widely heralded as the successor to PCI and AGP expansion slots. Those slots, located on a computer's motherboard, allow insertion of video cards, networking cards and so on to enhance the...
Morpheus Releases Gnutella Client
Well... Morpheus is here for the Mac... sorta...
As previously reported - Morpheus was considering making a switch to the Gnutella network - and today released a Preview Edition (which has 53 million downloads at the time of this post)
What this effectively means is that many Morpheus users will be switching to the Gnutella network - providing many more users/files... so if we can't...
