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-on-Linux
ResExcellence has an interview with Samuel Rydh who is the lead programmer of an Open Source Mac "emulator" for Linux.
There have been a few false starts in this arena, but this one looks...
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Descent 3
Those who aren't wasting enough time can take a look at the new Descent 3 review at...
OS X on unsupported machines
David Clark posted this useful tutorial on how to install OS X on unsupport machines. A great resource if you've got an old UMAX or something laying...
The next generation
In Japan, thousands stand in line to be one of the first to get the new Sony Playstation. They describe the frenzy in this article along with some interesting points about the hardware and the economics of it.
"Sony likes to point out that the foot of a football player on the screen now has more polygons, the building blocks of 3-D graphics, than an entire linebacker did on the first ...
Collector's Dream
Computer collecting has become a new and fun thing to do... once you collect all the "standard" models, the fun comes in trying to get the rare one-of-a-kind models. Check out MobileDog's powerbook museum as well as the Newton Collector page.
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Demand it!
Demand Mac is an interesting site - the whole site is devoted to demanding certain software be developed for the Mac. It's a sort of on-line petition. I'm not sure how effective it is... but it's better than nothing, I suppose.
They're primarily focused on game...
Newton's demise
Outgoing Apple Europe vice-president Diego Piacentini gives a little more insight into the Newton's untimely demise in this MacNN feature. Basically, it was a matter of focus which is a shame...The Newton Messagepad 2000 was and still is considered one of the best PDA's out there. The whole Newton OS was designed from the ground up as a handheld OS rather than some hacked Desktop OS (WinCE)....
That mac in the closet...
If you've got an old quadra sitting in the closet, you should take a look at Brian Rumsey's article that explores Games for the 68040's. It's sad, I remember when the Quadra was an unattainable computer...
Internet Applicance, again...
Tony Smith reports that Apple expects to "achieve double-digit revenue and unit sales growth during fiscal 2000" and have hinted at the introduction of an "information appliance". So, here we go again... everyone's been talking about these things forever. I guess Apple does have more pieces in place with their iTools, but still...
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Parsec Released
Started back in 1996, Parsec demo has finally been released. Parsec is a portable freeware 3D space shooter with some awesome screenshots....
UMA-2 chipset specs
MacOSRumors reports some detailed specs for the upcoming UMA-2 chipset. Of note, they report a 133mhz bus, 4x AGP, 800Mbps fireware, and a hint at Gigabit...
Keyboard is dead
IBM's general manager of voice systems implied we'd all be going to voice-interface in this Macworld article. There's even a snap on speech recognition for the Palm. We'll see how it goes... I've tried these speech recognition programs... keyboard/stylus always seemed quicker to me.
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Unreal Tournament Bonus Pack
Unreal Tournament bonus pack has been released. New levels as well as a new feature -...
Cinema 22inch display
David Saraceno has posted his review of the insanely fine Apple Cinema 22" LCD Display at xlr8yourmac.com.
Gotta love it...
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Don Crabb dies
arn writes "Sad news for the mac community is Don Crabb's death Don was an active Mac reporter and advocate. I knew of him best from his MacWeek articles/editorials. "...
