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
Power Colour Classic Hacks
Seen on Slashdot, Stuart Bell has a website detailing Color Classic Mac hacks to bring it up to speed.
From the website: Definition: A Power Colour Classic is an Apple Macintosh Colour Classic computer, normally powered by a 16Mhz 68030 CPU, modified to use a logic board which contains a microprocessor from the 'Power PC' range of RISC processors, typically a 603e device.
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New Apple Ad?
MacMike writes "Oh oh.....did someone let the cat out of the bag early? I don't think so but it looks like a cool ad nonetheless!
Check it out at:
http://www.adcritic.com/content/apple-g4-espionage.html "
No mention of any new features - just the "new" Power Mac G4. But it is a great ad... very...
Multiprocessor Macs at WWDC?
Not to beat a dead horse... but AppleInsider's page has been updated for the first time in nearly a month... and it seems like more of the same - multiprocessor macs but they report availability of these machines starting May...
MacUTosh
jasonr writes "There's a new site for Mac Unreal fans. http://www.crider.com/macutosh/features.html"
It looks pretty new, but this site has some great info on how to hack-up your Unreal game for better performance and what some of the more obscure commands/buttons...
Bad week for Gates
This isn't a good week for Bill Gates. First, the Department of Justice wants to break-up Microsoft into 2 entities (applications and OS)... and then...
Gates is no longer the richest man in the world. Jobs' friend, Larry Ellison, has taken that...
Psion Mac History
Former Psion employee, George Champlin writes on Go2Mac about the history of support for Psion's PDA on the Mac.
Mac connectivity software was actually equal if not better than Windows connectivity for a while. As well, Jobs used a Psion Series 3a back in 1995....
600mhz Multiprocessor Macs at MacWorld?
In a confirmation of previously heard rumors, " unknown_source" over at the Apple Insider Forums reports that his/her Motorola source reported that 600mhz Multiprocessor Macs will be at MacWorld NY.
This confirms (and combines) previous news items Multiprocessor Macs? and 600 MHz Macs?...
TheAppleCollection: Prototypes & Design Pics
The Apple
Collection is a cool site that contains a lot of
pictures and designs... including a page dedicated to
Apple Prototypes and concept
designs. One of the coolest designs is this
Apple-branded ultra-thin portable:
They've also got a picture of the Timex iMac clock that we noticed on ebay the other day. I
guess it's not that rare.
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News Around the Web: MP3.com, iMovie, Diablo II
Mac News/Rumors seem to crawl to a halt on weekends. A recap of recent happenings include:
MP3.com was found by a court to have violated copyrights by archiving thousands of albums on their site. While a big victory for RIAA... was it really unexpected?
In a surprise move, Apple released iMovie for free.
And, a Mac version of Diablo II has been confirmed by an announcement from ...
Speed Up your PB
An xlr8yourmac.com user reports that Takashi Imai hosts a series of webpages that show you step-by-steps to overclock your Powerbook G3 Original, WallStreet, Bronze Keyboard, and Firewire models).
As always, hardware mods are an "at your own risk" sort of procedure... ahhh... but what could go wrong?...
QNX for Mac?
MacOS Rumors posted this heads-up on a comment by Dan Dodge regarding a PowerPC/iMac port of QNX.
Apparently, QNX is already running on an iMac to some degree, but with no USB support and "Give us 2 months and some spare cycles to get it on the iMAC and we will see what the demand for QNX on this machine is."
Another interesting comment is " What we would really love is to partner with...
Mac OS X - this Summer
Gene Steinberg writes this overview of Mac OS X -- the most interesting part of this article is a quote by Chris Bourdon, Apple's Product Marketing Manager for Mac OS X:
"We are on track to make Mac OS X available to customers this summer."
I think there will be a collective sigh of "finally" when it does arrive. Summer? Seems MacWorld is the best time to release such a massive...
User Link: Another Tidbit about the Apple PDA
Anonymous writes "mac3d.com posted patent information and a story about the the use in a wireless handheld "
The link is here. But don't get too excited... Mac3d has fallen into the same trap that we got caught in.
These patents applications were submitted years ago, and are only now being issued. ...
An Alternative PDA?
Seen on Slashdot -- Samsung apparently will be releasing a Linux-based PDA called YOPY.
At a glance, it appears to include all the necessary features, including many ones found in the new Pocket PC... MP3 player, Web Browser, Color Screens, IRDA, and more...
Unfortunately, it appears Mac Synch plans are NOT in the works ... however, with Linux Support, can Mac OS X support be far...
VirtualGameStation 1.4 Available
Version 1.4 of Connectix's Playstation emulator (VirtualGameStation) has been released!
Download this update for these fixes/features:
Mac DVD lockup issue has been fixed
Game-specific fixes
NTSC and PAL format support.
VGS had been in limbo for a while now due to litigation by...
New Hardware at MacWorld?
MacOS Rumors speculates that new educational discount bundles (good til June 18th) are a sign that Apple is moving merchandise to make room for new models.
MacWorlds are always significant events for Apple, and it's certainly a venue to released new...
Apple's PDA - Part 2
Apparently, on tuesday PDA Geek also posted an item about Apple's upcoming PDA:
"Apple's PDA is coming - Matt Myers wrote in to tell me that he was making fun of the Pocket PC in CompUSA when someone walked by him and said "the best PDA ever is going to be announced in three weeks." After some prodding, Matt got the passerby to reveal that it's Apple's PDA based on Palm. So, anyone know...
Pictures: Apple's 1995 Set Top Box
Here's a blast from the past... in 1995, Apple created an Apple Set Top Box. Details from this 1995 Press Release announced that this interactive TV set-top technology was being evaluated in a six-state trial.
"Apple's ITV system incorporates key technologies including a subset of the MacOS, QuickDraw and QuickTime. In addition, it includes an MPEG1 decoder and supports PAL and NTSC video ...
Virtual PC 3.0.3 with Altivec Support
Connectix released the 3.0.3 updater for Virtual PC.
This small update includes "Velocity Engine (AltiVec) optimizations for even greater speed on Power Mac G4s."
This doesn't appear to be the large speed increase hinted by Largo in his post to Macrumors last week... but perhaps a preview of what's to...
Pictures: Woz playing Building-Sized Tetris at Brown
Yesterday, we reported that Woz went to Providence, RI to see the building-sized Tetris project by Brown's Techhouse dorm.
Here are some pictures from the visit, courtesy of the Techhouse dorm.
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