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
Microsoft's 'Settlement' Rejected
Microsoft's settlement was rejected according to this CNet article
In his 21-page ruling, U.S. District Judge J. Fredrick Motz agreed with opponents that the proposed deal in the antitrust cases would be itself be anti-competitive. He also said that the private cases had not been developed far enough to determine the extent of damages that could have been obtained through litigation. ...
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Of Gates and Jobs
nubneck wrote in with this:
This week, popular technology writer, Robert Cringely devoted his column to the new iMac and Apple's longevity: Why the New iMacs Will Be Successful No Matter What They Look Like
Which provides an interesting look into this writer's opinion of Jobs outlook on life, as well as some reasoning why Apple will continue to...
Forum Maintenance: Upgrade
Forums have been upgraded
Predictably, there may be some problems... hopefully all will go smoothly.
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Design in the Details
This ZDNet article discusses the design aspect of the new iMac and touches on some details as well as some quotes from Ive's.
As is often the case with Apple's computers, the design team spent tremendous energy on some of the little details, such as how to access the dome case to add memory. At...
Jobs on the Digital Hub and TV's
This Yahoo article has some interesting quotes from jobs:
"Do we think that PCs and televisions are going to merge? No. The next great age of the personal computer is going to be as the digital hub"
"I think you'll be seeing a lot of different things. We'll clearly be continuing to refine the digital hub suite of applications. We may have some other surprises"
And...
MWSF Updates
Microsoft released Windows Media Player for OS 9 and OS X. (previously only available with Office X)
Alias/Wavefront is releaseing a free Personal Learning Edition - While this is a full version of Maya... it has some limitations: The Maya Personal Learning Edition restricts users to non-commercial applications through the display of a watermark on images as well as through the use of a ...
iMac Fan
The new IMac apparently does sport a fan (The Register):
As for noise, the new iMac does have a fan to cool the G4 and the NVidia GeForce 2MX graphics card. We're told that the design goal was to ensure the fan is no noisier than the hard disk, and Apple tells us the noise emission is a reasonable 25 decibels....
Photos from MWSF
Various News sites have posted (higher quality) photos from the MacWorld Expo:
MacMinute
MacNN
MacReviewZone
MacCityNet
Go2Mac
Feel free to add links to the...
MacWorld Expo 2002
MacWorld Expo 2002 opens Tomorrow... with the Keynote today. I won't bore you with all the details (our keynote page)... but the highlights include:
- New Flat Panel iMac
- iPhoto
- Mac OS X as standard Boot on new machines
- 14" iBook and price drops
Of note, I was very impressed by iPhoto... all the components involved have been...
iMac on Time
Bartman posted this link to MacMinute who claims that Apple's new iMac is on the advance January 14th issues of Time Magazine. According to MacMinute:
The new iMac features a G4 processor housed in a hemisphere base with a chrome arm that extends and holds the 15-inch flat panel display. The high-end model, which will sell for US$1,800, features a SuperDrive. (MacMinute...
MWSF 2002 Rumor Roundup
Ok, with everything that's been flying around, I felt it appropriate to summarize before the big event:
PowerMacs
Speed has been the primary focus... with a range of reports of 1ghz G4's (MacUser UK) to G5's entering production (The Register). With the hype surrounding this launch, people are focusing on expectations of huge speed increases... however, if past experience is any...
Forums Disabled for a Short While
I've corrected the server clock, and have disabled forum posts for the next hour and half or so to prevent oddities in replies/posts due to time differences.
Update: Back...
Just One More Sleepless Night?
Just one more sleepless night
not yet on Apple.com (should come up in 2 hrs) :)
(thanks to Mac_User for the...
Vendors at MacWorld
On Friday,MacFixIt listed vendors and the products they would be demoing at MacWorld Expo SF.
Of note in thie list is Equilibrium who will apparently be demonstrating DeBabelizer Pro 5 for Mac OS X. Equilibrium has been absent from the Mac scene since Version 3
Rumors also speculates that we may see a demo of Photoshop X, Palm Desktop final, and of course the release of Adobe GoLive...
IBM 750FX Processors
Catfish_Man submitted this last night - IBM's latest G3 processor (Oct, 2001) which is the most likely chip in the upcoming iMacs:
Manufactured in IBM's advanced 0.13 micron copper process with Silicon-on-Insulator and Low-K Dielectric technology, the 750FX will be offered at frequencies up to 1 GHz.
Though the article states it would only begin "sampling" in Jan...
Game Room?
A couple of users noted an odd thing on Woz's desk...
A couple of days ago I paid a visit to Steve Wozniak's site, went to his personal webcam page http://wozcam.woz.org/ and I zoomed in on the desk. Surprise... I found what seemed to be a user manual with an Apple logo... it was a small white bookled, with a big title "GAME ROOM"... could that be the new digital
There are...
And you think YOU like Macs?
For some light news prior to MacWorld Expo, see this Wired article about folks who make paper Mac models:
Last year, Mike Burgess ordered a PowerMac G4 Cube from Apple's website. But he was so impatient for it to be delivered, he made a cardboard replica while he waited for the real one to arrive.
I suppose the saddest part is that I feel for Mike......
Specs/Prices for new Macs?
An optimistic view of the upcoming iMacs and G4's was provided by reader Kung Pow Chicken reporting he can not confirm the source... however, the specs are identical to ones posted by SpyMac today. It's unclear which came first... but the specs include:
1200 mhz, 1400 mhz, 1400x2 mhz G4 PowerMacs; $1699, $2499, $3499
1 ghz G3 LCD iMacs; $1299,...
