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
Mac OS X 4K46
Throughout the last few months, Mac OS X has been undergoing constant revision... and you can find unofficial reviews on various bulletin boards... here's a review (or preview) of one the more recent builds.
In short, as always, this build gives us much to hope for,
and also much to worry about.
note: use side-bar links to get to other parts of the article. links at the...
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Windows XP
Just as Mac OS X is about to take off, looks like Microsoft is planning their future as well... with Windows XP:
Microsoft gave a sneak peek Tuesday of the next version of its desktop operating system, touted as the "most important" release since Windows 95, and showed off a new interface called Luna for home and business computers....
MP3's for all
In light of Napster's recent setback:
CXC has released version 1.0.1 of Mactella, the peer-to-peer Gnutella...
DVD's for all
Apple's new "Superdrive" (that lets you make DVD's) will be available as a standalone firewire drive:
According to this link... this is as many expected. It's almost $1000 - but if you didn't want to upgrade your machine... you've got an...
New iMacs?
"They also claimed that faster iMacs, equipped with CD-RW drives, will be announced soon."
According to this article at The Register. This in light of new rebates on the iMac...
Faster G4's?
"At Macworld next week in San Francisco, the Cupertino, Calif.-based company will introduce four new Power Mac models, including a new top-of-the-line computer with a 733-MHz G4 processor, the fastest Macintosh computer to date. Three other Power Macs will contain chips running at 466 MHz to 666 MHz.
All of these computers will also come with a system bus that runs at 133 MHz ...
Powerbook G4
JAPK writes "In preparation for the possibility of a G4 Powerbook release, the Apple Store no longer offers build to order powerbooks. This is obviously an attempt to clear inventory in preparation for a new release. "
Perhaps - with MacWorld SF around the corner, anything's possible. However, Apple's inventory surplus may push them to selling premade units rather than manufacture...
nVIDIA in new Powerbook G4?
According to Go2Mac:
"Sources close to Apple's forthcoming PowerBook G4 project (code named Mercury) have confirmed that the new PowerBook will indeed ship with nVIDIA as it''s video subsystem. Exact specifications are still to be determined, but we expect it to be a 16 MB implementation of the company's GeForce2 chipset."
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PHP4 and MySQL Pre-Built for Mac OS X
Lightyear Design has posted pre-compiled versions of MySQL and PHP4 for Mac OS X:
"I have been fooling around with Package Builder and have developed a double-click installation package for Apache+PHP4 and also for a beta version of MySQL. This is great for folks who are still a wee bit afraid of the command line, don't have access to the developer tools, or who just have
problems...
Macworld SF Keynote
With Jan. approaching - that means a big event for the
Mac community is approaching - Macworld Expo!
Job's keynote will be broadcast at 9am PST on Jan
9,
2000. Big news or not? Well, according to this macweek article:
"Although Apple, by policy, does not discuss future
product announcements, Jobs strongly hinted during a
recent conference call with analysts that the...
Bungie's Oni (beta version)
ideus writes "Oni is one of the best games I've ever played. It is similar to tomb raider, the way you view your character, but also similar to Unreal. You use the mouse for the character to look around and you use keys to move your character, punch, kick, and shoot. The graphics in this game are unbelievable. There are many different weapons, one flaw is that you can only carry one weapon at a ...
Apple Sub-Notebook Picture...
There's new talk about - of a "cube" portable... According to MacOS Rumors: "a subnotebook competitive with the best the industry has to offer in size, battery life, performance, features, and weight."
And a reader sent in this picture. (appears to be a mockup, but fun to look at)
PowerBook G4 ...
Mac OS X Apps
If you're getting bored trying to find native apps for OS X... Apple's posted it's own list of Mac OS X Native...
MySQL/Apache/PHP4 on MacOS X Beta
At http://homepage.mac.com/LightyearDesign/MacOSX/ there are step-by-step instructions on how to to install MySQL, Apache and PHP4 into Mac OS X:
"This document describes my approach to building mySQL, then Apache and PHP4. The special thing about by Apache installation here is that it's installed in the native directories it was found in under MacOS X Beta...
New G4 from Motorola
Motorola announced a new version of the G4:
"Compatible with the entire PowerPC family of microprocessors dating to 1991, the MPC7410 is the first of Motorola's microprocessors to be manufactured in the HiPerMOS 6 (HiP6) 0.18-micron copper fabrication process. This move to
Motorola's most advanced manufacturing process, and the resulting small die size, are part of the reason the...
OS X is Unix
Macworld posted an article taking a look at Mac OS X from a Unix perspective.
Apple has taken an enormous risk by abandoning the fifteen years of development it invested in the original Mac operating system, but judging from the Mac OS X beta, that gamble has paid off. The Macintosh can now run with the big boys, supporting the attractive and elegant interface the machine has always...
Tools for OS X Beta
This MacAddict article has instructions and a link to a script to regain the missing developer tools from OS X:
Fortunately, there's a fix, and its name is Darwin. Apple's open-source operating system is binary-compatible with Mac OS X (in a very real sense it is a part of Mac OS X, redone slightly to create a stand-alone OS), and it does include the missing compiler tools. We've written ...
More Anti-Rumor Activity
This ZDNet Article reports Apple may be getting even harder on sites/publications that publish Apple/Mac Rumors:
Apple Computer Inc.'s advertising agency is offering Mac publications a choice: Get out of the rumors business or lose Apple's business.
The agency, TBWA/Chiat/Day, recently contacted several publications that carry Apple's advertising, and informed them of the...
Mac OS X Beta Expiration Date
According to Apple's Mac OS X Beta FAQ:
Mac OS X Public Beta will expire on May 15, 2001. At that time the software will stop working, and you will need a bootable Mac OS CD (not the Mac OS X Public Beta CD) to gain access to the contents of your hard drive or to reset your computer's startup disk.
While this is somewhat understandable for Beta software - I'm not sure...
New iBooks: Indigo and Key Lime
The new ibooks...
(update: Apple's Site has since been updated... and provides more...
