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 Beta $29.99
The Mac OS X Beta CD will cost us $29.99 in the US according to MacNews.de (German site) which has provided coverage of the...
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Mac OS X and iBooks - Lime?
Unpublished France Apple Store link - with Mac OS X Beta advertised as well as a new color ( Picture) for the iBook - lime?
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Mac OS X on CD
According to Go2mac Mac OS X will be availalble only on CD for $20:
The biggest announcement of the Expo will be the historical public beta test of Mac OS X. The first publicly available version of Apple's modern operating system will be given away for free to keynote attendees on CD-ROM [Hint: look for a ticket under your seat] and it will be available for ordering from the Apple Store...
Concept Apple PDA
A Go2Mac reader posted their rendition of a aqua-ized Apple PDA. Just for fun, of...
Brief Mac OS X Beta Preview
A ZDNet article previews some features in the soon-to-be-released Mac OS X Beta:
However, sources cautioned, users won't find a seamless combination of "modern OS" features such as protected memory with the compatibility and user-friendliness of the traditional Mac operating system.
Instead, they said, Mac OS X still retains many of the functions of its progenitor: NeXTstep, the OS...
Unreal Engine Progress
Fans of the 1st person perspective games (Unreal, Quake) should take a look at Epic's media kit for their updated Unreal Engine.
Along with screenshots, there is a 40meg MPG demonstrating the increased details and features. ...
Mac OS X Coming...
This CNet article sums up what to expect at Apple's Paris Expo:
Although the release of the OS X beta is the known item on Jobs' agenda, the Apple leader could well pull up the curtain on other items. Apple updated all its desktop computers in July at Macworld, but its iBook laptop line has not been updated since February when Apple added the faster iBook Special Edition. Also, the...
Did Apple PR Save the day?
ffejbean writes "ffejbean writes "Looks like the PR team at Apple UK went into OT to talk the potential protestors off the ledge! It says in the article that the "Executives" at
apple will be settling the score and "building a relationship" with the people that were threatening to demonstrate and protest outside of MacExpo Europe on
9/13. Question is... Is Apple serious and willing to talk and...
Mac OS 9.1 Beta
AppleInsider updated with word of Mac OS 9.1 Beta (Fortissimo):
Mac OS 9.1 is scheduled to be completed in late September and is expected to be available a little later in the Fall. There
is still no word on whether Apple will charge for the release, or provide it to customers free of...
MacOS Rumors' Domain Name Falls Down
Cloudscout writes "What happened to MacOS Rumors, you ask? No, they didn't get shut down as a result of Apple's recent attempts at crushing Macintosh rumor-mills. Apparently they simply didn't renew their domain name with Network Solutions. According to WHOIS, macosrumors.com expired on July 16th and now it no longer resolves. The site is still up and running on their other domain name (
ATI Radeon
A Maccentral article discloses that Apple's posting info of the ATI Radeon was a mistake:
"For ultimate graphics performance, choose the ATI Radeon graphics card," read the info on the Apple Store Web site.
No option to choose the ATI Radeon card was available to users, however -- the RADEON information existed...
AirStation Alternative
Seen on xlr8yourmac: While not as pretty as Apple's Basestation... Techworks AirStation (with Router) is a working alternative for $20 less. ...
Transmeta Plans Reversed
EETimes has a story about an about-face that Transmeta has performed regarding it's business plan:
"Microprocessor startup Transmeta Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) has quietly changed its business plan. The company has bought back its two main technology-licensing agreements from IBM Corp. and Toshiba Corp., and now plans to market products on its own as a fabless chip supplier." ...
Plastic Displays
This won't affect us for years... but cool, nonetheless...
Researchers at Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, have succeeded in making a 64-by-64-pixel display in which each pixel is turned on and off by a switch based on plastic electronics. This is a major step towards the realization of low-cost, flexible displays made in plastic. This kind of reloadable...
Expo Announcements?
ThinkSecret updates with a preview of Paris Expo with the following rumor/speculation:
"During this keynote, [Steve] will announce the release of the Mac OS X public beta. Other major announcements are likely, and Apple expo 2000 is a prime announcement date for the revised iBook. While the PowerBook G4 will not be released until January at soonest, there is still a slim possibility of a ...
Making of Macintosh
Stanford posted release 1.0 of "Making of Macintosh", an online project documenting the history of the Macintosh:
"The exhibit features primary documents, such as memos tracing the evolution of the Macintosh mouse; images, such as technical drawings, stills from commercials, notes from user tests; and interviews with members of the Macintosh development team, technical writers, and...
Wozniak's Perspective
Ohio.com has got a brief article about Wozniak and his induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame:
"When he was a kid, Steve Wozniak told his dad he wanted to be two things when he grew up: an engineer, just like his father, and a fifth-grade...
Paris Expo - Live
Apple Expo 2000 to be held in Paris September 13-17 will get its own Web Studio webcast.
Jobs, of course, will be giving a keynote at this Expo... Will this be broadcast? MacOSPlanet thinks not.
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Powerbook G4 and iBooks
BiG writes "Yes, if you were to ask me, I would put money on this. Look on MacMalls site, Outposts, any others. They have begun to advertise floppy drives 'compatible with Powerbook G3/G4'. Do you think this is infuriating Steve to no end? And these same sites are also advertising firewire devices 'fully compatible with the new iBooks'. Any ideas why? You gotta love these guys. "
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New Handheld processor...
This CNet article talks about a revamped StrongArm architecture coming from Intel:
The XScale architecture offers performance roughly 20 times the Dragonball and uses less power, said MicroDesign resources analyst Peter Glaskowsky. The chip architecture also is able to shift performance on the fly, throttling up for multimedia programs and conserving power when running a calendar or...
