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
No New Hardware
This MacCentral article quotes an Apple official regarding future hardware.
The report indicates that Apple will not introduce new hardware in the coming months... since they have just upgraded their hardware lines over the past few months.
Of particular note, Joswiak notes that the G4 has a long life ahead of it... somewhat confirming the general rumblings that we won't see G5 until...
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MT Newswatcher OS X
Simon Fraser has released:
MT Newswatcher OS X - much anticipated OS X port of the popular OS 9 client.
Newsreader options were scarce for OS X early on... and have filled in since then... but the lack of this particular application had been notable - until...
Warthog Jumping
In the hours remaining to see if Apple can wow us at Quicktime Live... let's take a moment and watch this quicktime movie of Bungie's Halo - presumably run on an X-Box:
The clip was put together on a Mac with iMovie... ah - so it might not win at Sundance... but it's pretty damn entertaining... and well edited... you have to see it to understand.
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Quicktime Live!
Quicktime Live kicks off tomorrow in Beverly Hills, CA.
Phil Schiller is giving the Keynote address which will be streamed live from Apple starting at 10:30am Pacific Time.
The most concrete information available on Quicktime Live and the potential for Quicktime 6.0 comes from this CreativeMac interview with Frank Casanova from December 17, 2001.
In it, Casanova describes MPEG-4 ...
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Three products are currently available:
2001-2002 Contributor's Mug - $30 donation to MacRumors.com and Free Souvenir Mug. (FAQ)
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Mac OS X 10.1.3 - Real Soon Now?
Mac OS X 10.1.3 talk continues... with possible release time being any day now...
ThinkSecret updated Friday with suggests Thursday afternoon as a potential drop date...
RailheadDesign however, hinted that 10.1.3 could have been released as early as yesterday... (it wasn't of...
Digital Video Revolution...
Every now and again, Apple posts Mac related stories on their site... The most recent is an article about a 24 minute Documentary entited "No Dumb Questions".
This short film has won many awards as well as an honorable mention for Short Filmmaking at Sundance Film Festival
Of course, made on a Mac... but what's notable is that level of hardware/software that was used. Melissa Regan...
Apple's Unix Future...
David Coursey of ZDNet writes about what he learned from meeting with Steve Jobs:
In general, it appears Apple does not want to pursue the home entertainment niche (ala Tivo) and instead focus on the hub-strategy... which is what Jobs has been pushing all along.
Of interest Jobs and Apple are also aware...
MPEG-4 in Quicktime-4
News.com's RumorMill hints at MPEG-4 support finally arriving at the Quicktime Live conference:
"One of the key announcements will be that QuickTime 5.1 will support MPEG-4," said our Skinformant. "Looks like they'll have to rely on open standards to finally realize the promise of QuickTime Interactive."
Hmm.... Quicktime 5.1? What happened to Quicktime 6.0?
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Apple Acquires 'Nothing Real'
A couple of users wrote in with this:
According to VFXPro Apple has acquired the company Nothing Real... and it's products.
An anonymous read writes:
Nothing Real no longer exists... it has been bought by...... Apple (!) No one knows yet what apple will do with the code, but the NReal team is kept and sent to Cupertino to start porting code to OSX.
Shake will...
Another Day, another GeForce Press Release
NVidia has finally announced the GeForce 4 series of graphics cards...
Apple's previous press release was pulled, and then reissued today. It seems Time-Canada isn't the only company that can't time their...
LCD iMac Benchmarks
Barefeats posted benchmarks comparing the G4/733, Dual G4/800 and LCD iMac 800.
The older G4/733 has the advantage of a 133Mhz bus vs the iMacs 100Mhz bus... and this appears to make a significant difference. The Dual 800 does quite well.
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GeForce 4 Ti
Apple announced the GeForce 4 Titanium for the Power Mac G4 -- beginning next month.
Delivered on a AGP 4X card containing 128MB of double data rate
(DDR) SDRAM, the GeForce4 Titanium processor renders incredibly lifelike
content and special effects such as real-time character animation and amazing
surface details never before seen on a personal computer.
- 87 million...
Future Processor Technology
Rachel writes in with this article:
This New York Times article discusses Intel and IBM chip technologies which are accelerating the speed of current processors as well as other advances.
They focus on Intel's speed boosts as well as a mention of 10-Ghz speeds in certain portions of a prototype processor.
IBM/PPC gets some limited coverage with focus on power consumption ...
Quicktime Live
MacWorld UK posts about a possible secret announcement at Quicktime Live (Feb 11-13).
This year's sessions include "a super-secret workshop" to be announced at the event, as well as an Apple keynote to kick-start the event.
Previous info re Quicktime 6 and MPEG-4 can be found in this previous macrumors article
Correction: The above link was originally attributed to the ...
Quad Processor Macs
SpyMac posted a movie which claims to demonstrate the possibility of upcoming quad Macs.
And just last night, an anonymous source sent us video footage of what he/she claims to be "a screen capture from a machine [his/her] company is testing". The message was short, ending with a promise to try to find out more information about the system, which "arrived very recently".
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10.1.3 Any Day Now?
MacMinute has further hints at a soon to be released Mac OS X update:
A specific release date for Mac OS X 10.1.3 is unclear at this point, with sources suggesting only that the update could come "almost any day now."...
Inside Id
This RedHerring article gives us some insight into John Carmack and id software...
A few years ago, he publicly criticized Steve Jobs and Apple Computer in an Internet posting for failing to keep up with 3D hardware technology. That led to a tense meeting with Mr. Jobs and, ultimately, an attitude shift at Apple....
iMac Delivered
MacIntouch reports one user having received their new iMac.
Also... This link was submitted with pictures of the unpacking of someone's new...
No Superbowl Ad for Apple
Every year, as the Superbowl approaches, there is endless speculation on Apple advertising...
MacMinute reported that Apple does not appear on the list of advertisers for this years Superbowl. This list can be found at adage.com
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