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
Ebay Watch: Rare Apple Items
Ebay's a great place for Mac/Apple collectors to explore
regularly for that one mac item that's eluded them.
Someone is actually selling a PowerBook G3 seen on the
Real World/Hawaii. Apparently, it was auctioned off by
MTV to this fellow who is now selling it. I guess it could
be valuable to some Real World fans.
A few
Macintosh TV's can be seen on eBay presently.
These ...
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Mini iMacs
Check out Yoshifumi Yamamoto's
artistic pictures of mini-iMac models in various
scenes.
It's not immediately obvious, but the iMacs you are
looking at are only a couple of inches in diameter.
Impressive, but certainly a man with too much time on
his hands. Credits to Go2Mac for
introducing us to this...
3dfx and Gigapixel
3dfx will be acquiring GigaPixel Corp. who "specializes in the design, development and licensing of 3D core technology".
xlr8yourmac posted some notes from a 3dfx/Gigapixel conference call. No real indication how this affects Mac products. Of note, they mention that one goal is to beat the Microsoft's X-Box in graphics performance 6 months before it's...
Extreme Powerbooks
Go2Mac posted a piece of kick-***
hardware next time you go bungie jumping with your
powerbook.
The BOBLB
EE Urban Backpack provides puncture and crush
protection for your powerbook. Oh yes...
...
AltiVec Notes
According to MacOSRumors, preliminary AltiVec acceleration in MacOS X is very promising with reports of an average of 30% performance increase.
While that sounds great, they also claim that boot time is sped up as well as launch times... which seem like odd claims, as the bottleneck on those processes tend to be hard drive access, and AltiVec's presence alone wouldn't be expected to improve ...
DivX on the Rise
With all the controversy amid MP3's these days, especially with software like Napster, it might be easy to miss the next craze...
DivX may be it... think of it as the Video-equivalent of MP3. Full length movies in 300+ megs... not quite as small as mp3's, but you get a bit more for it.
Continued...
Pirated new film releases are already are being distributed. Of course, not the only...
Handspring Visor expanding retail stores
Taking it's retail presence to another level, Handspring, the palm-founder based company, is going to be stocking it's Visor in Staples stores across the US.
A significant move, as the Visor is pretty stiff competition for Palm sales. Still not quite a...
Steven King book now available for Mac
Amazon and Adobe have finally released a Mac version of Steven
King's new electronic book, Riding the
Bullet.
All you need is the Acrobat Reader....
Bill Gates' Credit Card Info
Raphael Gray, a teen, reportedly had Bill Gates' credit card information that he and another teen had obtained after hacking into 9 e-commerce sites.
The big question is - what did Mr. Gates buy? :)
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MacOS X for Intel?
There are rumblings about Mac OS X for Intel again. What fed the fire this time was a post from the lead Darwin engineer that Darwin 1.0 was a compiled for both PowerPC and Intel for the first time. Darwin is/will be the core OS of Mac OS X.
The Register picked up on this and and their article speculates that Apple may release a full Mac OS X for Intel. (note: Darwin is only the core OS). ...
Microsoft IE 5.0 due Monday
ZDNet reports Microsoft IE 5.0 for Mac is due
on Monday. This is confirmed by Microsoft's Mactopia
site itself.
IE 5.0 brings an updated Aqua-like look/feel as shown
in this
screenshot. Early reports have been favorable for
this latest browser.
Note: It has arrived. Click on the Mactopia link to get it
...
The Wiz also to carry Macs
ZDNet is reporting that the Wiz will also start carrying Mac systems.
Add this to Circuit City, and it seems Apple's been busy expanding their consumer presence. As stated before, the big question is whether or not these stores will help or hurt Apple in the...
AltiVec support in Linux
Terra Soft Solutions announced full development support under Linux for AltiVec on PPC's. The Press Release claims 150-300% increase with some apps getting 10x previous performance.
I expect most of the gains come from mathematically intensive applications, however, it seems Mac support for AltiVec is still somewhat...
iMovie 2.0?
MacTalker writes "Two Apple engineers have told David Pogue about a major new iMovie release, slated to ship in a few weeks. But Apple won't let him sign an NDA, provide prerelease software, or grant an interview, to help with his upcoming 'iMovie: The Missing Manual.' "
This provides some collaboration with MacTheKnife's report that iMovie 2.0 maybe released at Internet...
AvantGo released for the Macintosh
Palm Boy writes "It just appeared on their site. http://avantgo.com/frontdoor/index.html"
AvantGo lets you download web "channels" to your Palm Pilot so you can view them on-the-go. There was a Press Release back in Jan, 2000 which indicated it would be available in early March. Well, here we...
Free Mac Email Directory
Tom Prescott writes "Free Mac Email is a new directory of great web mail addresses for Mac fanatics. Everything from yourname@macpunk.com to yourname@thecrazyones.com."
If you're still for that perfect email address, that's a good starting point. Anyone have any ideas for a good (presently unavailable) Mac-based email address? Anyone interested in a Chaosmint.com email address? (chaosmint = ...
RAM price hike?
Michael Breedon, at http://www.xlr8yourmac.com, warns his users that RAM prices could go up as much as 10% on monday. Of course, this is all speculation, but if you've been looking for ram, here's a good excuse to get...
Mac OS 9.0.4 here?
An Excite News article reports that Apple inadvertantly released Mac OS 9.0.4 to the automatic software updater. As a result, at least a few users are already running the new system.
A reader wrote into Macintouch after having received the system upgrade. For everyone else, it appears 9.0.4 will be available next...
New Macs at WWDC?
This Macuser UK article speculates about product announcements at Apple's Wordwide Developer Conference.
An updated iMac or a multiprocessor Mac (aka "Mystic") seem to be the contenders. But as the article states, WWDC is an odd venue for product...
G4 Powerbook in the works
Ogrady claims to be privy to details about the next generation Powerbook, which will sport a G4 processor. He details a couple of other potential "Mercury" features, including a new touchpad, lighted keyboard, and of course, G4...
