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
Opinion: Mac OS after Windows Split
Seen on Slashdot, you can read this fairy tale about how Mac OS could come out on top after Microsoft's split... written by Peter Lalor.
I'm sure it will be linked from other Mac sites... and it's nice to speculate... but it makes some fundamentally flawed (imho) assumptions.
These are that 1) Apple is not porting Mac OS X to Intel because of fear of some sort of Microsoft...
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More Myst News
Think Secret has a short update about future Myst Projects.
According to the article, Myst: Masterpiece Edition for Mac has been completed and will be released later this month:
"Myst Masterpiece was developed by Presto Studios, to enhance the graphics and sounds of Cyan's original Myst game, released in 1993.
As well, there are some more details about
6gig MP3 Jukebox with Mac Support - coming
Now this is cool...
Seen on xlr8yourmac.com - Creative is releasing a 6GB mp3 player that is approximately the size of a discman... the Nomad Jukebox. It contains a 2.5" hard drive for storage... and will have Mac support "within a few months."
A bit large as MP3 players go... but with 6gigs of storage, you can keep all your music with you. Sadly, there is only 6 hours of...
Sneak Peak at Opera
As an appropriate followup to the browser shoot-out article, Macuarium posted a very short preview of the upcoming Opera browser:
"According to Opera software, its strenghts are speed, standard compliance, security, a small footprint and stability even in slow machines. We have been able to verify two of them: it is indeed fast (very fast) and weights only 3'3 MB."
Not many...
Return of the NeXT Cube??
Mac OS Rumors
posted a bit about future G4 case enclosures:
"Several reports now point to a possible new enclosure
that will ship with the UMA-2 PowerMac G4, due out
late-year. Reports vary on some details, but virtually all
describe a wider form factor than today's Graphite
minitowers -- nearly cube-shaped, in fact."
Is Jobs' influence bringing back the original NeXT ...
PowerLogix's iMac Upgrade
As AppleInsider predicted just the other day, PowerLogix did release an iMac CPU upgrade. That's not the interesting part of it, however... PowerLogix somehow got around the fact that the original iMac processor card houses Apple ROMs.
Mike Breeden at Xlr8yourmac.com wrote them with some questions, including this cool response about how they...
Pictures: Speaker Enclosure Patent from Apple
Dogbert writes "Apple has been awarded a patent for the "ornamental design for a speaker enclosure". The patent application has been filed on October 28, 1999 and lists Jonathan Ive among the inventors. Click the "Images" button to view the design sketches." (you may need a plug-in)
The above is one of the sketches... An interesting design... and not a very familiar one. It looks...
Microsoft Ruling...
I've avoided following the day-to-day details of the
Microsoft trial - but I suppose the final ruling is
news-worthy...
Here's CNN's report of the ruling:
"A federal judge Wednesday ordered that Microsoft be
split into two companies, the largest court-ordered breakup
since the 1984 dismantling of telephone giant AT&T.
Under the order, Microsoft would be divided into a ...
iMac and Powerbook processor Upgrades?
Appleinsider reports about upcoming processor
upgrades for both the iMac and Powerbook. These new
upgrades are rumored to be coming out of PowerLogix and
could boost your iMac to 500mhz.
...
"Bill [Gates] loves the Mac"
The title quote comes from Kevin Browne, general manager of
the Macintosh Business Unit at Microsoft in this interesting MacWorld UK article/interview
Office 2001, for instance, was engineered entirely for
the Mac. Microsoft no longer works on a shared "core-code"
strategy. Whats written for the Mac applications is written
for the Mac alone. However, the engineers proximity to...
New IBM PPCs
According to this
MarketWatch article, IBM has introduced new
PPC's:
- The PowerPC 750CX and 750CXe
microprocessors; ranging in speeds from 350 to 700
MHz, they use IBM's advanced 0.18 micron copper
wiring technology and incorporate 256K of ...
Visioneer Back to Mac
According to MacUser UK, Visioneer is planning Mac versions of it's
scanners - again...
If you don't remember... Visioneer first appeared on the
Mac with the B&W Paperport - simple and
straightforward - this sheet-fed scanner was a popular
device. ...
Macintosh Stackable Systems
mac
daddyfw writes "Marathon Computer (http://www.
marathoncomputer.com)
offers rack mounts for Macintosh computers. Turn your
qute iMac into a rack mounted internet server. They sell
iMac disassembly instructions and Rack mounts from
G3s, G4s, and many other Macintosh Systems. "...
Transmeta's Crusoe coming to the Mainstream? Apple/AMD again?
According to this CNet article:
IBM said today that it plans to show off a ThinkPad notebook based on a processor from upstart Transmeta at a trade show later this month.
Transmeta made waves in January when it announced their unique software/hardware low-power processor (Crusoe Explored). Since the announcement, there has been speculation that a PPC version would follow....
Apple Serious about Games?
jasonr writes "Looks like Apple's hiring a Games Technology Manager."
Yep - it looks like Apple is serious about Mac Gaming. From the job description:
"Our new games technologies product manager will work with Apple's management, hardware and software teams to make sure tomorrow's Macintosh computers are THE best game machines."
and later...
"A successful...
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AND - at the end of June, we will give away this 1995 Apple Set Top Box to ...
eBooks for Mac
According to this MacWeek article, Lightning Source (an eBook distributor) announced Mac support for their ebooks via Adobe's Acrobat software.
This is probably good news with the recent ebook push by Microsoft. Microsoft partnered with Barnes and Noble to distribute eBooks for their Pocket...
New iMac Builder
As seen on MacNN, CNet Investor posted a short blurb about a new company building iMacs for Apple:
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., one of Taiwan's biggest computer parts manufacturers, has received orders
from Apple Computer Inc. to produce its iMac computer
Production will begin in the 3rd quarter. What wasn't clear is if this was a ramping up of production or simply a...
Mactella v.0.53
cxc, inc. is working on a Mac native version of Gnutella. Their version is called Mactella and is currently at v.0.53.
From the site: Be careful when you use this program it will crash!
Not much to see now, but worth following. Previously, we reported that there was a cross-platform Java Gnutella which works on Mac.
...
Magnetic RAM
ABC News posted a short item on a technology that IBM is working on... "magnetic RAM"... which would prevent you from losing the contents of memory when you cut the power, thus providing you with an "instant on".
Scientists at IBMs Almaden Research Center say they have now fabricated a crude magnetic RAM prototype containing 500 working memory cells (each cell represents a bit of memory) ...
