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
Pioneer DVR-104
Many have noted that the new iMac comes with a Pioneer DVR-104 for it's Superdrive in contrast to the previous DVR-103 in the PowerMac models... a Macintouch letter clarifies the difference:
- physical dimensions; it is a bit shorter, now conforming to usual size of 5.25" drive mechanisms. The original DVR-103/A03 was a bit longer, and made for a tight squeeze in some...
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OS X as a Game Developer's Platform
This Stepwise article describes one developer's use of OpenStep/Cocoa in his Playstation game development:
To many who have had the pleasure of working with it, Cocoa is the greatest thing since sliced bread. It's been variously described as 95% of the utopian programming environment you've always dreamed of, the way application development should be done, and a decade ahead of its...
PowerMac Specs?
Go2Mac posted user submitted specs regarding the rumored PowerMac updates.
Of note, they list GeForce 4 as the graphics card on the high end machines.... however, this card has not yet been released.
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Ghz Power Macs Next Week?
Rob Picton writes in with the following link from MacUser:
Owing to the last-minute date change, Apple is still sitting on the
new models, and sources indicate an announcement will now not
come until next week at the earliest.Apple has delayed the release
of new Power Macs, for reasons best known to itself....
Future of Apple
Business Week online has an excellent series of articles on the future of Apple - laying out Apple's current strategic plans, product offerings, and market situation. ...
New PowerMacs?
Steve Morris writes in with the following link: MacUser article predicted on Jan 22, 2002:
MacUser sources have confirmed that next Tuesday, 22 January, is the most likely date for the release of Apple's first ever 1GHz Power Mac....
Changing Trends?
According to this CNet article, users are buying higher end machines... at least based on the limited evidence from the last 3 months of 2001:
Many consumers have been purchasing desktops with memory allotments of 256MB or more and hard drive sizes of 60GB to 80GB or even more. The buyers often paired those features with flat-panel displays--which doubled in sales in 2001--wireless...
Q1 Results - Profit
Apple announced a profit of $38 million for Q1 - in line with estimates.
During the conference call, the question of iMac sales taking away from PowerMac sales was raised... however, the answer was simply that they felt Pro users would still be compelled by the faster bus, L3 cache, dual processors and expandability of the PowerMac line.
Of note, Apple (Fred Anderson) did report today:...
Tablet PC's
This CNet article details Sony's withdrawl of it's Pen Tablet computer from the marketplace:
Slow sales are leading Sony Electronics, the PC division of the Japanese electronics giant, to rapidly phase out one of its more glamorous product lines--the Vaio Slimtop Pen Tablet--the company has confirmed. The computer came with a touch screen that allowed people to draw images directly onto...
10 and 20 gig Toshiba Drives
Per this CNet article, Toshiba announced 10gig and 20gig versions of it's 1.8" drives... the 5gig version being used in the current Apple iPod: Toshiba said it would begin shipping the 10GB drive, dubbed the MK1003GAL, in February and the 20GB unit, known as the MK2003GAH, in March. The company did not announce pricing for the new drives....
Apple's Q1 Results
Today is Apple's Q1 results:
Apples conference call webcast discussing Q1 '02 financial results will begin at 2:30pm PT on Wednesday, January 16, 2002....
TweakWaves demo
TweakFilms posted their TweakWaves demo application that they demoed at MWSF.
TweakWaves is a sample application to demonstrate some of the water simulation capabilities of Tweak Films.
It requires a GeForce 2/3 or ATI...
New G4's?
MacEdition's reports on possible upgraded G4's on Jan 20th-ish:
According to the Blades Kleenex-wielding couchload of family therapists, thats the date when Apple will bring the high end of the Mac clan back into the tent with new systems based on the super-gigahertz Apollo generation of Motorolas PowerPC G4.
With claims up to 1.4ghz by...
LCD Prices/Supply
This CNet article discusses the upcoming market situation regarding LCD monitors:
Bruce Berkoff, executive vice president at LCD maker LG Philips LCD, said that he's been predicting a shortage for some time and sees it as part of a cycle that consists of two-year periods of oversupply and two-year periods of shortage, causing price fluctuations. Berkoff anticipates an industrywide...
Interview with Ive
nubneck submitted this link: The Independent has an interview with Jonathan Ive, Apple's designer. It's a very good read, with some insight into the design of the new iMac:
Because Ive's designs aren't intended simply to attract, pictures consistently don't do them justice. It's only first-hand that you notice the tiny things: the magnetically-operated latch on the notebook...
Alaskan cruise with Woz
asurace wrote in the forums:
I found this in the last issue of MacWorld. It's the MacMania Alaskan cruise with guest speakers Steve Wozniack and John De Lancie (Q). Expierience breathtaking Alaskan landscapes in the day while learning UNIX,Photoshop and Project Builder in the night. Could a vacation get any...
G4 Skinz
voicegy posted the following in the forums:
Now, I usually don't go for toying too much with augmenting or "changing" the look of ANY of Apples' products, but I gotta admit, this is a pretty cool idea: "AppleSkinz add the perfect touch to the already beautiful industrial design of the Apple Macintosh G3 and G4 computer."
http://www.appleskinz.com/...
Future Conferences
With MacWorld Expo SF over, people are looking forward to future conferences for possible product announcements. Here are the upcoming conferences:
Quicktime Live - February 11-14, 2002 (QT6, MPEG-4)
Seybold - February 20-22, 2002
MacWorld Expo Tokyo - March 21-23, 2002
Of note, Apple introduced patterened iMacs at MW Tokyo 2001 and speed bumped towers at MW Tokyo 2000......
New iMac - Inside-Out
Here is a link to an Flat-Panel iMac Service PDF file. It's a Draft version, but provides instructions as well as detailed pictures of the Flat-Panel iMac in various stages of being taken apart (for Service).
You can even see the blue-round motherboard. ...
Wireless Keyboard for new iMac
This ZDNet article discusses how accessory vendors were closely watching the new iMac introduction.... of note, MacAlly seems to be slightly ahead of the game:
One maker that seems to have lucked out is Macally, which had just started equipping a manufacturing plant to churn out several models of a wireless keyboard, each model decked out in white and silver.
Wireless...
