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
Microsoft Bought Bungie
Despite denials and wishful thinking - Microsoft is buying Bungie as previously reported. Of note, another company Take2 has rights to some parts of Bungie's product line:
"Take2 is selling its stake in Bungie to Microsoft immediately (no doubt at a significant profit) but is also gaining complete rights, in perpetuity, to the Oni and Myth franchises -- all existing titles and titles...
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New 1GHz+ PPCs by 2001?
santino writes "This article over at eeTimes talks about the SOI process, and briefly mentions Motorola's adoption of the (not so) new technique. Specifically mentioning its use on an AltiVec G4, that will read speeds in excess of 1 GHz that will be in mass production by mid-2001."
From the article:
"At the VLSI Technology Symposium here this past week, managers from Motorola's...
New iMacs?
AppleInsider writes about a possible new iMac:
"According to sources, the next version of Apple's iMac DV Special Edition is expected to ship with a G4 processor running at speeds of up to 450MHz, complete with a DVD drive and 17" built in display for the complete home and small office digital video editing station."
While reader, Joe Cocker contributed:
"The new iMac's...
Woz Inducted to the National Inventors Hall of Fame
This Yahoo reports that Woz has been inducted to the Inventors Hall of Fame:
"Steve Wozniak, who founded Apple Computer in 1976 with Steve Jobs, was honored for his invention of the Apple II, which brought together all the elements of the modern personal computer."
A well deserved honor. Previous inductees include Thomas Edison, the Wright brothers and Henry Ford. Woz is the...
New Site, and MacWorld Rumors...
appleunderground writes "Apple Underground Website is officially launched!"
New and sparse, but they do claim to have some tidbits about the upcoming Macworld NY. According to the site, we should expect speed-bumped G4s and iBooks along with UMA-2 based iMacs.
As well regarding the iMac: "While the form factor will lack any sort of radical deviation from current design (i.e....
TheMacAd.com is Back
Earlier, we reported that TheMacAd.com has dissappeared. Well - it's back - mostly. It seems the domain name simply expired, but we've redirected http://www.themacad.com back to their site.
Some of the links don't work (knowledge navigator), but many still do.
Also, according to the site owner, his "plans are to rework all the movies with QT4, and Sorenson Video 2.1". (They are ...
If not MacWorld, maybe Seybold
Seems Steve Jobs is making the rounds at conferences... he is scheduled to give the Keynote speech on Tuesday, August 29, at the Seybold San Francisco publishing conference. According to MacWeek:
"There was no word on the topics he will cover, but Jobs has used past Seybold keynotes to announce new Apple products. Last year, Apple introduced the Power Mac G4 and Apple Cinema Display at...
Microsoft Buying Bungie?
Anonymous points us to this out-of-nowhere rumor at FatBabies.com that Microsoft is buying Bungie.:
From FatBabies: "They have been shopping for a while now, and we have word they've finally found someone to buy. Microsoft is buying/already bought Bungie (Myth, Myth II). This buyout would result in major changes for Bungie, such as the possible scenario where Halo will be an X-Box only...
Virtual Game Station 1.4 - no Regional Lockout
First seen on Emulation.net on
May 30th:
"Many readers have written to me and confirmed that
Virtual Game Station does, indeed, work with CDs and
Macintoshes from any region!"
MacsOnly takes it a step further and rented some Japanese
titles with some success. In case you were unaware,
many playstation titles have regional playback
restrictions. There have been...
ATI's RADEON for Mac
AppleInsider reports about Mac versions of
ATI's Radeon video cards:
"According to well placed sources, in July ATI will
officially unviel a Macintosh compatible graphics card
featuring the RADEON chipset. The card will apparently
sport a 4X AGP...
750CX and 750CXe PPC Details
MacWeek
reports that IBM gave some more details of the 750CX
(350-550mhz) and 750CXe (500-700mhz) at the Embedded
Processor Forum 2000.
"Peter Sandon, Senior PowerPC Processor Architect
for IBM Microelectronics and the architect of the 750CX
processor, said the new chips were designed for
high-end embedded and desktop
systems--possibly including Macs, though that...
AppleInsider Woes...
AppleInsider can't catch a break... :)
Regarding the Microsoft article: Article Remove 9PM EST By the Demand of Microsoft Corp, Inc.
However, MacOS Rumors page is still up. Perhaps the screenshots pushed it over the edge.
MacMike wrote in this link: a good TidBITS discussion about the Adobe/MacNN lawsuit. The article cites a previous case with some...
MacNN's Expansion
MacNN announced DealNN.com today - a site that covers offers and specials on Mac-related items. This site presumably goes up against Deal-mac.com (a longtime favorite)
While that's nice, what's more interesting is the other domain names owned by MacNN. These include JavaNN.com, WindowsNN.com and LinuxNN.com. It seems MacNN is looking towards...
MS Office 2001
Both Apple Insider and MacOS Rumors have updates about Mircosoft Office 2001.
MacOS Rumors outlines various features/upgrades... of note: "Integrated "Alpaca" personal information manager (PIM), based on Outlook, ties email, contacts, calendar, tasks, and note-taking into one application with tight integration in the Office suite and with all of its other applications."
While...
Linux and Mac OS X - User Interface?
Linux's biggest handicap seems to be ease-of-use issues. These "ease of use" issues also underlie Unix-based Mac OS X development, but we're counting on Apple to make it Mac-like enough with Aqua so joe-consumer can use it.
In case you haven't heard, a start-up called Eazel is working on creating a consistent/standard GUI for Linux. What makes this interesting and relevant is that a...
MacWorld Expo NY 2000 - No Broadcast?
tick42 writes "I do not know if this is new news or not, but I just recieved an email from Apple regarding satellite broadcasts of Macworld NY.
"We're not planning on doing that this year, Steve Job's decision.
Sorry."
Apparently, Steve Jobs does not want any satellite broadcasts of any his Keynotes. Only the rich and lucky who are blessed enough to sit in his presence are...
Apple and RealNetworks Announce Internet Streaming
MacMike writes "Press Release at:
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2000/june/12realnetworks.html "
From the press release: "RealNetworks also announced that its RealServer 8 now supports the delivery of Apples QuickTime-based content to Apples QuickTime players and is immediately available for download at http://www.realnetworks.com/products/servers/server8.html."
It seems...
Adobe sues AppleInsider/MacNN?
MacMike writes "Looks like the boys at AppleInsider are in deep kimchee:
News Scoop Yields Suit From a Software Maker
Hey MacNN? Don't do the crime if you can't do the time. "
My first reaction is... is this for real? Apparently... from the article:
"Adobe Systems Inc. has filed suit against Macintosh News Network for previewing software products still in...
IBM's Faster G3's and Apple
AppleInsider provides some information on IBM's direction with their new G3 processors that were recently announced. They report that the 750CXe should hit Ghz speeds by next year. Of most interest is this quote on whether or not we'll see these chips in Apple hardware in the future:
"According to sources, Apple has now made an unofficial decision to begin to convert the processors in...
