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
PS2 for OS X?
MacEvangelist has an interview with someone who claims to be working on a PS2 emulator for OS X:
A new startup that I was a part of created a PS2 debugger for MacOS X. It was during this consignment that we thought, "why not make a PS2 emulator?" Things has gone very well, we are seeing leaps and bounds in development and we are excited with the way things are going. We are now trying...
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Cool Feature of the Day
From the FAQ (.pdf):
Q. Since the iPod doubles as a FireWire hard drive, can I also start up my Mac using iPod?
A. Yes, iPod can be preloaded with system software and used to start up your Mac or to install system software on your Mac. However, Apple does not support this feature.
...And for a potentially a cool use in the future (DV, Digicams?):
Q. Can I use...
Price Reality Check
Po are displeased at the pricing of Apple's new iPod product should check this:
SmartDisk FireFly - 5GB Firewire Drive. MRSP is $399.95. The reason for the cost is that it's small. It utilizes Toshiba's 1.8-inch 5gb PC Card HD (retail price $399).
While not confimed to be the same mechanism as Toshiba's... few other drives would fit in that small enclosure. This puts Apple's...
Spy Photos - iWalk?
Ah... it's time for the spy photos - what self respecting Apple announcement and speculation would be without the obligatory Spy Photos of questionable authenticity....
SpyMac has posted their version of Apple's new product: iWalk:
The iWalk is a kind of PDA with a lot more features than one could have previously expected: It features a high-color TFT-screen with handwriting...
Rumor Roundup
What is known:
This coming Tuesday, Apple invites you to the unveiling of a breakthrough digital device, (Hint: it's not a Mac).
What is rumored:
iPod -- can be synched with the computer using a high-speed cable connection that allows consumers to download their music into a portable system, which can then be accessed by either a car or home stereo system. -- Wired Article
iPod, a...
HitsDailyDouble (who?) Rumor
HitsDailyDouble posted a rumor regarding Apple's upcoming device:
iPod, a portable hard drive for music that will feature a firewire connection for extra-fast data transfer.
note: the site requires...
Intel's Consumer Electronics Division
Ironically, as Apple plans to introduce a new digital device, Intel is backing off that market:
The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaker Thursday confirmed that its Connected Products Division, which specializes in digital cameras, digital-audio players and toys, is in the process of being phased out. The company will sell the existing inventory of these products, which should last...
G5 Specs
The Register posted an article remarkably similar to Mac OS Rumors regarding the upcoming G5's:
Two major problems have been hampering the company's efforts to get the chip into upcoming Power Macs: issues with the clock multiplier and cache coherency glitches. The former has been fixed with the G5's latest revision, version 0.5, we hear.
Despite this, performance tests seem ...
More Speculation and 'Sources'
CNet has an updated article regarding Apple's mysterious Digital Device. They revise their previous hints of a portable MP3 player... instead:
Apple apparently is not planning to introduce a portable MP3 player, but something more sophisticated such as a component for a home digital stereo system, sources said.
Take all with a grain of salt... the "musical" nature of this...
GigaWire?
A quick search at the United States Patent and Trademark Office pulls up a new trademark application from Apple (filed on September 5, 2001) called Gigawire.
Telecommunication services; cellular telephone communication; Communication by computer terminals, communication by telephone, facsimile transmission; providing of electronic mail (E-Mail); computer aided transmission of...
Apple's New Digital Device
Mike Ryder wrote in to tell us of a Yahoo News article describing "the
unveiling of a breakthrough digital device," by Apple on Oct. 23. And according to Apple, "hint: it's not a Mac."
Very interesting. Sources near the company claim it's likely a digital music device. Portable MP3 player? Component CD-RW / MP3 player?
Quite the intriguing...
1ghz G3 from IBM
Per this MacCentral article, IBM announced their new 750FX PPC Processor yesteday:
The overall goal of the 750FX is to optimize system performance. In addition to doubling the L2 cache size to 512KB from the 750CX's and 750CXe's L2 cache size of 256KB, IBM also doubled the peak system bus speed to 200MHz. IBM and two of its partner developers, Tundra Semiconductor and Marvell...
DVD Playback under 10.1 (non-Apple solution)
VideoLan, a student project:
It's main goals are MPEG and DVD playing and broadcasting on the campus, but it also features a standalone multimedia player that can read DVDs and MPEG files.
With the latest release, they've provided a Mac OS X 10.1 Binary which provides DVD playback independant of Apple's player. It's still in early development, so keep your expectations in...
Memories from Woz
The Guardian has an interview with Steve Wozniak. Of note, he echoes our opinions on the Newton line:
The Newton was probably the most special machine that I have ever used. I regularly took outlined notes with regular handwriting. I would handwrite things like "Sara dentist Tuesday 2pm", click Assist, and have the calendar appointment set up. I would even handwrite "call Jim" to make a ...
G5's on Schedule?
The Register reports that Motorola's G5 may be on track for early next year.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs, says the source, is shooting for a January launch.
We can see Jobs doing so, but announcing that top-end models won't ship until February or March, much as he did this year when he unveiled the 733MHz and 667MHz Power Mac G4s based on the second-generation G4-class PowerPC, the 7450.
...
New IBM PPC's Next Week
eWeek reports on a new PPC being annouced by IBM:
IBM next week will announce a new PowerPC ranging in megahertz from 700MHz to 1GHz, that could shift the balance of power in the professional Mac market away from Motorola Inc. and its PowerPC G4.
Of note, they comment a new "feature":
However, sources told eWeek that the Sahara chip will feature an "AltiVec-like...
More about New Powebooks
Various news outlets are reporting on upcoming Powerbook revisions.
The Register claims the new Titanium G4's will run at 600 and 700mhz:
Our source tells us the new PowerBooks are likely to appear towards the end of this month.
Of more interest is their speculation that "big" revisions will be expected at MacWorld Tokyo:
the new chip is simply being used to...
10.1 Window Buffer Compression
This MacNN thread notes an interesting inactive feature of OS X 10.1, posted by moki (Andrew Welch):
The window server has a cool feature in OS X 10.1 that isn't enabled by default (though it will be in an upcoming update, as I understand it): window buffer compression.
later....
So what Apple did was they implemented a compression mechanism into the window server....
Lossless Audio Compresion
With the MP3 explosion, it's interesting to see the release of Shorten X for OS X. Shorten X is based on this lossless compression algorithm for audio.
You're best compression appears to be 50%... which means you aren't exactly going to be moving all your CD's to this format... but it's just a refreshing feeling not to actually lose data in the...
New Powerbooks
Rumors that current Powerbooks are End-of-Lifed (EOL'd) have been circulating... hinting at new Powerbooks in the pipe...
CubeZone posts about an Ad that hints of new laptops:
We also have spotted an ad in a French Mac magazine about new Apple products. There is the new Quicksilver and the new iMacs introduced at MWNY, the iBook...and two PowerBooks. The low-end one is a 500 Mhz...
