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
Jobs on Games
Inside Mac Games has a brief interview with Steve Jobs regarding games on the Mac.
Not very much insightful/forward looking information... but a good nod for a platform that in the past has been geared away from...
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AppleWorks for Windows?
Cory Vance writes in with the observation/link from Apple's Educational Store that shows AppleWorks 6.2 being available for Windows as well as Mac:
System Requirements
AppleWorks 6.2 for Windows
* A PC with a Pentium processor
* 32MB of physical RAM
* Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, or Windows 2000
* A CD-ROM (for installation)
* An...
iPad?
In one of the more roundabout rumors... this thread on MacNN roughly translates a Chinese clipping (scanned here) regarding a rumored PDA/MP3 Player from Apple
Inventec Appliances has possibly received a contract from Apple for production of MP3 players and PDA units. The total number of MP3 player and PDA in the contract may exceed several millions. So far, the MP3 player has been...
PowerMac Dev Notes
Apple posted a Developer Note PDF for the new Speed-Bumped PowerMacs.
Overall specs have not changed significantly from previous Quicksilvers, but is still a good resource for interested...
UT X Preview 2
Preview 2 of Unreal Tournament X has been released.
Last heard, Glenda Adams was getting some help from Apple employees regarding the port. Hopefully this new version will be more stable... and will give some of us one less reason to boot into...
More to Come for Towers?
Matthew Rothenberg writes in an eWeek article that the 1 GHz PowerMacs are only the tip of the iceburg:
Multiple eyewitnesses insist that Apple is far along in the development of new towers that already offer clock speeds in the neighborhood of 1.6GHz and triple the performance of the current systems' 133MHz system bus. My sources say the tangible boosts in graphics performance and Mac...
Adobe Photoshop 7
Simon wrote in with this link: MacFreak (Dutch site) posted that Adobe's Photoshop 7.0 will be released in Feb and shipping by...
PowerMac Dual 1-GHz Benchmarks
MacWelt.de posted benchmarks from the new Dual 1-GHz PowerMac G4 - with comparisons to older PowerMacs including the dual-800.(English Translation)
Unfortunately, they are comparing OS X 10.1.2 (Dual 1GHz) vs 10.0.4 (Dual 800).
This page shows pictures of the insides of the Dual 1-GHz.. and shows the Seagate Barracuda and GeForce4 MX. (English Translation)
This website...
Motorola's New Chip
MacCentral confirms that the new PPC in the 1-GHz PowerMac is indeed an Apollo processor (MPC 7455, MPC 7445) with use of SOI and 2MB DDR L3 Cache.
A key quote regarding the new chip is that it is a first installment of the chip and "The big news here is that this device is certainly not topped out" according to a Motorola rep.
Meanwhile, cyclist submitted this...
Education Only PowerMac
For those of you still in school or otherwise related to an educational institution, Apple is continuing to provide a lower-end model of the PowerMac:
733 G4
256 L2 Cache
256MB RAM
40GB HD
CD-RW
ATI Radeon 7500
$1252.00
If you drop the RAM to 128MB, and discard the 56k modem, the final cost is only $1178.
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GeForce 4 MX and 1-GHz PPC
With details lacking...this ZDNet article provides some leaked details of the upcoming NVidia GeForce 4 cards. The 'MX' is NVidia's lower-performance model:
The MX line is likely to include three models, the 460, the 440 and the 420, with a Ti 4600 and a Ti 4400 also appearing, according to reports. The Ti moniker refers to Titanium, the name that Nvidia coined in 2001 to refer to its...
New PowerMac G4's - Released
Apple Store has been updated with new PowerMacs
$1599 - 800Mhz G4, 40GB, CD-RW, Radeon 7500, 256MB
$2299 - 933Mhz G4, 60GB, SuperDrive, GeForce4 MX, 256MB
$2999 - Dual 1Ghz, 80GB, SuperDrive, GeForce 4 MX, 512MB
$3649 - Dual 1Ghz, 80GBx2, SuperDrive, GeForce 4 MX, 1.5GB
GeForce 4 rumors were apparently...
Apple in Europe
This Interview with one of Apple's European managers, Pascal Cagni, details some of Apple's European market position.
Notably, there are no current plans for Apple Stores in Europe... Cagni admits Apple Europe isn't competing for the sub $800 market, but is selling a complete solution for the $1000+ market.
Cagni, himself, apparently hadn't been a Mac-guy until he got this job in...
Intel's Processor Plans
This CNet article on Intel's possible backup plans to it's Itanium include a possible "32-64" bit version of the Pentium. This hypothetical Pentium would be in place if the Itanium (new architechture) were never to gain acceptace. Of interest regarding the architechture switch:
Few companies have ever successfully switched from one architecture to another. Intel, in fact,...
More OS X 10.1.3 & GeForce 4
Macbidouille.com (french) has a user posted submission of a screenshot of Mac OS X 10.1.3 install screen. (French translation)
There also also images of the upcoming GeForce 4... which has been rumored to come in upcoming PowerMacs. (though this is of questionable...
New iMacs in Stock
Railheaddesign is the first to note confirmation of the new iMac in stock at a location (in this case, Microcenter):
I spoke with Microcenter last night, and they have received their initial stock of the 800MHz iMacs 50 of them, to be exact. I was told that they would be setting them up tonight to have them ready for the weekend, and I told them Id be there with bells on.
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Mac OS 10.1.3
As many have noted ThinkSecret.com posted rumors that OS 10.1.3 update has been distributed to developers.
It's unclear how this build relates to the "10.2" video posted...
Jaguar (10.2) Movies
This download link contains quicktime movies of OS X 10.2 (6B11). Features demonstrated include:
- more Advanced Disk Copy with its own Shelf
- Contextual menus now have "Open With..." option for files
- Does not allow you to drag "locked" files to the trash
- Spring loaded folders
...
Gates Funding iBook Program?
This Bangor Daily News article details some continued debate surrounding the state of Maine's iBook program... of interest from this article is this little excerpt:
Funding for the program includes a $1 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help train teachers and to provide a $10,000 stipend for teachers serving as regional integration monitors to work with other ...
iMac Hardware Dev Note
Apple has posted a Developer note for the new iMac.
Details from block diagram confirm some comments found around the web.
- There are two USB controllers, and the internal modem is on the same bus as one of the three USB ports on the base.
- There is an SO-DIMM (user accessible) and DIMM slot
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