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
10.1 and UT Carbon
As you all must be aware... Mac OS X 10.1 has been released at Apple Stores across the country today. As it turns out, 10.1 is Build 5G64.
In other news, Mark Adams released a public beta of Unreal Tournament Carbon. I've personally had limited success... but give it a...
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DVD-R Price Drop
joek writes: "Apple's DVD-R media dropped in price - to $29.95 for a pack of 5. That brings the cost per DVD-R to $6 /...
Dual G4 Servers?
The Register seems to think that Apple will release Dual G4 servers at AppleExpo Paris:
Such a move would, of course, allow Jobs to unveil new hardware at the show without... well... announcing new hardware - if you see what we mean - as he promised in a press release a week or so back. That goes double if his lieutenant, marketing chief Phil Schiller, unveils the servers at Seybold a...
10.1 Release Candidates
Railhead Design posted some info on the current builds of OS X 10.1:
As far as when OS X will be frozen for golden master, it looks as though Apple will have no problems beating the 5G55 deadline for having everything complete and theres now a very good chance that what Steve will preview on September 7 will, in fact, be the final release...
nForce on Mac?
Seen on xlr8yourmac, FiringSquad has posted an article about NVIDIA's upcoming nForce chipset for PC's
Of note is this quote in the article:
Future platforms
Since it's based on the GeForce2 MX core, nForce's integrated graphics fully supports Apple's big endian byte ordering scheme. When we questioned NVIDIA if it was possible we could see nForce in the Mac, NVIDIA...
Dual 867
brett posted the following information page after he clocked his dual 800 mhz G4 to a dual 867... fastest mac on the planet. :)
Synopsis: I tried to overclock my August 2001 Power Mac dp800 to 867 and 933. After some trial and error with the pll banks, it has worked fine reporting at dp867....
Quake 3 on Dual 800
Dual 800 Quake 3 benchmarks have been posted.
Of note, this page has graphs comparing the Dual 800 vs a Dual 550mhz (overclocked). The Dual 800 is the following:
Stock configed dp800 (*not* BTO'd). THEN remove: nVidia Twinview 2mx. THEN add: a mac-flashed Asus 8200 Pure PC GeForce3; an 80GB IBM Deskstar 7200 slave drive; two 512mb sticks of pc133 cl3 ram...
Apple to cut Titanium notebook Pricetags
Mikebach writes:
Apple plans to drop the price of the 400MHz PowerBook G4 by $400 to $2,199 and slash the price of the 500MHz model by $500 to $2,999, according to a Macintosh reseller familiar with Apple's plans for the high-end notebook.
Check it out here ..
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Dual 800 Benchmark Requests/Results
With the Dual 800's trickling out, a lot of people are looking for benchmarks. I've got mine sitting here, so if there are any requests for Benchmarks, let me know -- with specific links to the requested software in question.
Config:
Dual 800/G4
512 CL2 RAM
Superdrive
GeForce3 AGP (1st monitor)
ATI Rage Pro PCI (2nd monitor)
Current Benchmarks:
Ars Technica SMP...
More on Short-Neck CRTs
CNet has an article on the shallowed CRTs, that may slow the tide of LCD's.
Sarnoff said the technology, called S-Cubed, can shrink the depth of 32-inch displays from 22 inches to 11 inches. Unlike with other attempts at making thinner CRTs, picture quality will actually improve, said James Birch, Sarnoff's director of business development.
Birch said manufacturers could use their...
Unreal Tournament Carbon
Westlake's Mark Adams posted to Usenet regarding his progress on Unreal Tournament Carbon (this is being written in his own free time):
Netowrking is now in, I've been able to pull up the in-game browser, find a billion games and join several. Most of the maps seem to be working, although I've had to turn down CodeWarrior's optimization level a notch or the game consistently crashes. ...
Initial Benchmarks
Barefeats posted some preliminary benchmarks on the Dual 800's as compared to older machines.
The Dual 533's hold their own against the Single 867... but the Dual 800's clearly take the lead in multiprocessor aware apps... .besting the Single 867 by as much as 87% in one bench (AltiVec...
More OS X Software...
Screenshots of the latest Adobe Illustrator 10 for OS X have been posted.
As well... Black & White will be published for the Mac.
Oh... and the Dual 800's are shipping.... xlr8yourmac posted Altivec Fractal Demo scores from the duals... and I personally received confirmation of shipment of my personal Dual 800....
Dual Processors and OS X
A few weeks ago, InsideMacGames posted an interview with Omni Group's Tim Wood.
He notes that (at that time) a Dual 500mhz/G4 with GeForce 2 MX runs Giants at approximately the same speed as a 1.3GHz Athlon, 266MHz frontside bus, PC2100 DDR Memory, GeForce 3.
More interesting to those of us waiting for our Dual 800's to arrive... Tim Wood comments regarding a 867mhz vs Dual 800mhz...
Apple at QuakeCon
Apple was at QuakeCon this year... According to this MacCentral article
The tournament play machines are brand-spanking-new 800MHz dual-processor Power Mac G4s equipped with GeForce3-based graphics cards and gobs of memory. The machines are running Mac OS X and a new, internal build of the Quake 3 Arena executable not yet available to the general public.
Here is a photo of...
Netscape 6 for OS X
adamluc writes:
"I have heard that Netscape was not going to release Netscape 6 for Mac OS X, well Netscape just released 6.1 for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS 8.6 and 9. And, they just released a pre-release version for Mac OS X. Click here to go to the site....
Make Your Own Clear G4
A reader posted his conversion of a graphite G4 Tower to a Clear Case.
The results are interesting... and imo, better than the attempt at making a Clear iBook....
Apple and Worker Bee Settle...
The suit against Worker Bee has been settled
As part of the settlement, Apple and Gutierrez jointly agreed that he would turn over any confidential information he still had in his possession and refrain from sharing any more information he may have learned during his time at the Mac maker. Gutierrez had originally signed a nondisclosure agreement with Apple in October 1999, according to...
PC GeForce 3 in a Mac
One person has posted instructions on how to flash a PC GeForce 3 for use in a AGP Mac.
Synopsis: I bought a PC Geforce3 card and tried to put it in my Mac. After a quick hack, it works quite well, in my opinion. Read on.
Discussion and info also in a related messageboard thread. ...
Office X Pics
More Microsoft Office X screenshots where posted on aquafiles:
Set 1 and Set 2...
