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
Apple at QuakeCon
It's good to see Apple so pro-gaming...
Apple posted this page about their presence at QuakeCon 2001:
Apple will be at the show supporting Quake III Team Arena on Mac OS X, running both open game play and official Team Tournaments on blazing fast dual 800MHz Power Mac G4s utilizing NVIDIAs newest graphics accelerator, the GeForce 3.
As posted before - id will be...
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OS X Apps...
Railhead Design has some info and comments about some of the more significant upcoming OS X titles -- including Office 10 and Carbon Photoshop.
As for when we will see the OS X version of Photoshop, it will probably and officially be next year when were due for a Photoshop update to version 7.0. And, of course, expect to pay $149.00 for it but this will simply be the cost of the whole...
Be Buyout...
It seems life has gone full circle. When Apple was shopping for a new OS, Be was everyone's favorite choice... well, everyone except Apple.
Be's been in some financial difficulty, as well as a change in their focus (to an appliance OS)... Now, The Register reports that Be has found itself a buyer:
Be's close relationship with Sony, the product of much speculation over the last six ...
Clear G4 Case...
One person was selling a Clear G4 Tower case on eBay... the auction has since ended... but the pictures are still up.
Frequently, manufacturers mold prototype plastics in clear (transparent) plastic for design considerations. The most popular "clear" Apple product previously was the Clear Newton 110 - a limited edition clear cased Newton. ...
OS X 10.1 Quake Benchmarks
xlr8yourmac posted benchmarks comparing OS X 10.0.4 vs 10.1 (MacWorld Preview) for App launch times as well as Quake 3 framerates.
The App (as expected) launch faster... but more interesting is that Quake 3 frame rates were about 14% faster... and up to 26%...
OS X 10.1 (Macworld Preview) Movies
A reader sent along these quicktime movies of Mac OS X 10.1 (MacWorld Preview) running on OS X. The machine in question is apparently a 500mhz iBook.
Movie 1
Movie 2...
OS X Shipping... When?
Not even quite a rumor - but perhaps "overheard", this article (seen on AppleTurns) writes:
Apple's new OS X operating system is available now, but Apple tells us not to expect the company to sell computers that boot directly into OS X until around April 2002.
Hmmm... well, if true, that would be unwelcome news... but it's still not clear...
Alternative PPC System?
Over the years, there's been much talk about the rebirth of the Amiga OS. There was the whole Gateway sidetrack... but it seems a new Amiga OS system might come into being...
A company named Merlancia is releasing these PPC Amiga OS based systems (slated for Nov 2001). What's interesting is that they plan on providing support for multiple OS's:
Working together on the iFusion...
Multiprocessing OS X Game
As you might have seen, Quake 3 is one of the games which actually takes advantage of multiprocessors... allowing it to run significantly faster on the dual Macs.
Here's some more interesting info:
In a MacWorld UK interview with Omnigroup founder Wil Shipley:
[Giants] Citizen Kabuto the game recently ported to OS X by the Omni Group: "It was originally written in Direct3D, ...
Apple at CompUSA
MacMinute posted a report that claims "Apple will be placing full-time employees in 70 to 90 CompUSA locations across the US"
I guess Apple's finally taking matters into their own hands... Apple Stores, Apple Employees at...
SuperDrive is a DVD-RW as well
According to a MacinTouch reader, Apple's SuperDrive can also be used to write DVD-RW media:
At last, Data back up on SuperDrives. I just received my first pack of DVD-RW disks to try on my G4 733 and I have to report they write data like a hot knife through a butter, a whole 4.7 gigs no proble
A nice added feature for the $250 option (above a DVD/CD-R) on the new...
Cube Rumors
In what I would classify in the unlikely rumor category, Cube-Zone has posted a rumor claiming that the Cube was discontinued due to heat-issues with higher processors:
He also said that he knows that Apple is redesigning the Cube to counteract the particular problems that are known. He said we might see the Cube return within in the year.
Of course, poor sales seems to be...
LCD iMac in Paris?
Go2Mac has a small rumors/tidbit attributed to an Apple official regarding the release on an LCD iMac and revised TiBook at Apple-Expo in Paris (Sept 2001).
Ah... the rumor mills continue to...
Flat CRTs?
Seen on Slashdot.org, this brief article in InformationWeek discusses a new Flat-panel CRT technology in the works:
IBM scientists in Scotland have patented a way to make a color CRT that's 2 centimeters thick-and IBM says it's cheaper and easier to make these flat-panel CRTs than LCDs.
Short on details and time-frame... this sort of technology could certainly bring...
Quicksilver Benchmarks, etc.
xlr8yourmac.com has posted a few benchmarks sent in by users of both a G4 733 and 867. Not in-depth and extensive, but an interesting quick look. In short--the missing L3 cache on the 733 does not seem to hit its performance too significantly (vs. the "old" G4 733 w/ 1MB L3). Also, some interesting snippits about ...
iPhoto?
MacEdition posted an article in their annoying MacTheKnife-esque style regarding a rumor of an Apple branded Photo editing app:
the new package, tentatively dubbed iPhoto, will let Auntie Em and Uncle Henry modify and enhance their snaps with simple controls and create electronic greeting cards, calendars and other personalized cheesecake via an assortment of templates. ...
Overclock your Quicksilver G4 to 1Ghz
For those of you who don't mind mucking around with your brand new PowerMac, there is already a page which shows how to overclock your Quicksilver G4 to up to 1066mhz. The pictures show a successful overclock to 1ghz with benchmarks.
It appears they upclocked a 867mhz model... it'll be interesting to see, if the dual 800's can easily be clocked upward.
The Japanese page has more...
Minor Mac OS X Update Available
A Web Sharing Update has become available via the Mac OS X Software Update control panel. It apparently updates Apache and SSH. According to xlr8yourmac.com, it does not update the Build # in the About box but is listed as Build 4Q59.
Of note, the new G4's seem to ship with Mac OS X 10.0.4 Build 4R14. ...
Motorola's 7450 Processor
With the release of Apples new 867mhz G4, there was a concurrent press release by Motorola announcing the availability of these chips. Of interest, pricing is revealed:
The advanced 867MHz MPC7450 processors are available today at a suggested unit list price of $435 in quantities of...
New G4's: Other Improvements
This eWeek article provides some interesting details that weren't mentioned at MacWorld regarding the new G4 Towers. Of note, it seems there have been slight changes to the motherboard:
the replacement of certain bridge chips should boost top throughput along the PCI bus to a maximum of 215M bps, almost twice the previous rate, representatives said.
As well, "the...
