The story behind OS X running on Intel is great, and surprisingly human.

Chris Foresman at Ars:

Apple hasn’t updated its Mac Pro workstation in nearly two years, leaving many pro users wondering if Apple might kill the product altogether. That is an ongoing source of angst to professionals in creative industries and elsewhere who rely on Apple hardware and OS X software to do their jobs. They’ve seen Intel release ever-faster processors since summer 2010, which can feel like an eternity in terms of computer hardware, making some of the older Mac Pros feel positively ancient.

Forseman argues for new Xeons, Thunderbolt, USB 3 and a new case, among other things.

Peter Burrows and Adam Satariano at Businessweek:

According to a person who met with Schiller recently to discuss Apple’s future, the marketing executive knows he’ll get more than his fair share of blame if the new products aren’t hits. Schiller has the daunting task of keeping Apple cool. And that’s harder to do now that the company is a $535 billion behemoth, subject to antitrust reviews and labor-practice criticisms, rather than the underdog he rejoined in 1997.

I think that Schiller is one of those guys who was always in Steve’s shadow. Now we’ll see what he’s really made of.

Apple’s new campus is set to include a huge underground event hall and parking lot.

My guess is that the company won’t be renting Moscone much longer.

Benj Edwards, Macworld.com:

Twenty-five years ago, Apple released the Macintosh II, a powerful, expandable desktop computer that represented a profound ideological design shift in the Macintosh line. Through its open architecture and color display capability, it echoed the experimental philosophy of Apple’s earliest machines and ignited a new wave of enthusiasm for the Macintosh platform.

It may have echoed the ‘experimental philosophy’ of Apple’s earliest machines, but it did so by being a complete reversal of the original Macintosh.

Guess which type of machine won in the end?