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
GoLive 6.0
Think Secret reports that GoLive 6 for OS X may be released at MacWorld Expo SF.
Think Secret has now learned that GoLive 6 recently reached the final gold master stage, and that Adobe is planning its US release for Macworld Expo/San Francisco next month.
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Jobs' Keynote - Macworld SF
Steve Jobs' MacWorld SF Keynote will be webcast live at 9am PT on January 7th.
It's an event you won't want to miss.
Jeff Sutton writes:
go2mac.com is reporting that Jobs is giving a Keynote at CES the day after his Keynote at MacWorld. This might explain the move to Monday for the Macworld Keynote. This all came from a printer who happened to notice Steve Jobs name...
A Million iBooks
Compal Electronics will manufacture one million Apple iBooks in 2002 according to this digitimes article. This appears to be in addition to the previous iBook production. Apple's expecting a good year, I suppose...
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Mac OS X 10.2
Appleinsider has a peak at Mac OS X 10.2:
Jaguar has been planned to bring back several features from Mac OS 9 such as the heavily-requested "spring-loaded folders" option in the Finder which is now a setting in Finder Preferences.
...as well as...
10.1.2
Numerous readers wrote in to say that Mac OS X 10.1.2 was released overnight.
The 10.1.2 update delivers improvements and new functionality, as well as expanded peripheral support for Mac OS X. Enhancements include:
- Updated and new USB and FireWire device support, including FireWire-based digital cameras
- PC Card storage devices, including media readers
- IrDA modem support...
Quicktime 6 and MPEG-4 / AAC
Creative Mac has an interview with Frank Casanova on Quicktime 6 and MPEG4. Of note, it appears Quicktime 6 will incorporate the MPEG-4 standard:
NAGEL: Everybody's talking about MPEG-4 right now, but what's going on with that?
CASANOVA: ... QuickTime 5 does not have anything to do with MPEG-4. So right now, our version of QuickTime that's being distributed--a million copies...
In other News...
To be complete, we should mention Apple's update to the Powerbook G4 - now including a combo drive (CD-RW/DVD).
As well, Adobe's CEO gives us an estimate for Photoshop X's release: Many (Mac users) are waiting for Photoshop, which we intend to release in the second quarter of next...
iMacs, G4s, and iPhoto?
AppleTurns claism to have predictions for the upcoming MacWorld 2002. Amongst their rumors including G4 933-1+gihz machines, iPhoto, flat panel iMac as well as a standardization on Mac OS X:
Speaking of Mac OS X, there was a definite vibe that January 7th would constitute the official switchover; as of that date, upon first boot, owners of all new Macs will be greeted with the pleasing...
More Hype: New Apple Products
This PC World article reports on another invitation sent by Apple last week:
Steve Jobs, chief executive officer of Apple Computer, will unveil a new consumer product that is "innovative, revolutionary, and different" at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco on January 7, the company says.
Any...
Other Adobe Apps for OS X
MacGregor writes that MacPlus.net has additional screenshots of upcoming Mac OS X Adobe Apps, including: Photoshop 7, GoLive 6, and Indesign 2.
Click here for the English...
Mac OS X 10.1.2
MacGeneration reports (in French) (translation) of a soon to be released Mac OS X update:
The improvements would be numerous, with in particular an updated management of the peripherals USB and FireWire of which new numerical cameras FireWire, the management of the PC Card (finally) and IrDA modem of PowerBook FireWire. AirPort would pass in version 2.0.2, Apache into 1.3.22 and...
DivX for Mac - Revisted
As previously reported, DivX has been slowly evolving for the Mac...
A port of ffmpeg at divx.jamby.net was the previously available DivX decoder available for Mac OS X. This port did remarkably well, allowing OS X users to play the majority of DivX files (with the proper conversion).
Divx.com has been testing an internal version of the "official" Mac decoder for sometime and has...
Photoshop v7.0 for X
Think Secret has a peak at Photoshop 7.0 for Mac OS X:
Photoshop 7.0 will sport a new anti-aliasing engine that takes advantage of OS X's Quartz layer, along with live transformation previews, workgroup functionality, and a new file browser. It will also boast significant enhancements to text manipulation, featuring a text tool that allows you to wrap text around shapes, a spell-check...
Quanta - iMac production
As reported by MacNN, this bloomberg article reports:
Quanta Computer Inc., Taiwan's largest notebook-computer maker, received an order from Apple Computer Inc. to manufacture a new model of iMac desktop computers, the Economic Daily News said, without citing anyone.
The order for more than a million iMacs a year starting in the first quarter of 2002 is Quanta's first contract to...
Continued Flat Panel iMac rumors
Wil Natzel submitted a link to this Wired article which provides some new hints/rumors regarding possibly upcoming Flat Panel iMacs:
Citing an anonymous source, Munson said Apple has placed an order with an unnamed Asian manufacturer for 100,000 all-in-one computers with flat-panel screens. The order will be fulfilled in January, she said.
They speculate the order may ...
G5 RoadMap
This eWeek article details some changes in Motorola's road map for it's PPC processors:
However, the new road map does highlight some revised aspects to the G5 family. New features include the adoption of the RapidIO Interconnect Architecture and symmetric multiprocessing capabilities (first seen in the PowerPC family with the G4 processor). Other revisions are initial speed estimates of ...
Photoshop X
A user writes: According to my source the development of PhotoShop 6.5 is advancing rapidly and a beta is planned to be seeded in the coming months. Photoshop 6.5 has many new enhancements added, among these are, a brand new antialiasing engine that utilizes the quartz engine in OS X, live transformation previews, and a new text tool that lets you wrap text around shapes. One of the best...
iMac: Sahara
Appleinsider reposted their previous story regarding upcoming Flat-panel iMacs:
The new iMac will continue the convenience of the All in One design that the current model holds, but in a significantly sexier manner. Based around a 15 TFT Flat-Panel display, running at a native resolution of 1024x768, the new iMac will closely resemble the current 15 Apple Studio Display from many angles....
OS X Apps...
Apple announced their OS X Version of Final Cut Pro 3 as well as demoed DVD Studio Pro for OS X.
In other news, Connectix quietly announced the immediate availability of Virtual PC 5.0 for both X and OS 9.
Oh - and iDVD 2 has been updated to 2.0.5 - available via Software Update in OS...
G4's and G5's
ChrisHam1 submitted this Maccentral article reporting on the upcoming G5's:
A Motorola spokesperson told MacCentral that the company's next generation G4 processor, codenamed Apollo, announced at last year's Microprocessor Forum, "is on schedule to ship in early 2002."
No clear indication when the G5's will be shipping in...
