Apple Discontinues The 15-inch MacBook Pro

Apple has silently killed off the 15-inch MacBook Pro and is now strongly pushing towards the future with its more powerful slimmer and lighter Retina-equipped 13-inch and 15-inch MacBooks. People looking to get an affordably priced 15-inch MacBook Pro will have to turn to the refurbished and used market, while Apple has made efforts to lower the price point of the new 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro down to $1,999 from last year's $2,199 entry price. The 13-inch standard MacBook Pro is still being offered for purchase with year-old specs, and is now the only remaining Mac to come with an optical drive. But for an additional $100, you can get an up-to-date Retina model with a super fast PCIe-based 128GB of flash storage which can be a compromise for some.

OS X Mavericks Out Now, A Free Upgrade For All Macs

Apple's latest OS X 10.9 Mavericks Mac operating system update is finally out, and it's available to download today for free via the Mac App Store. Apple is closing the gap on fragmentation with a big incentive, free OS X upgrades from here on out. With over 200 new features, one notable feature that Apple has revealed today was that OS X Mavericks is capable of increasing battery life performance on portable Macs providing up to an additional hour of battery life.

With OS X Mavericks, the Mac experience gets even better. It brings new apps to your desktop. Adds features you’ll love to use. And introduces technologies that help your Mac perform even better — while using even less power.

Apple Outs Thunderbolt-To-Thunderbolt Cable

Apple has finally released a Thunderbolt cable today with a nice price tag to match it at $49. What's it good for you ask? How about blazing fast data transfer speeds of 10Gbps. There's not much you can use this Thunderbolt cable for right now. There are very few devices and peripherals that support this technology at the moment, but you can use it to connect your Thunderbolt-equipped MacBook Pro with your iMac and use it as an external display.

Bretford Mobility Cart Isn't Your Ordinary Snack Cart

No this isn't a train snack cart full of MacBooks. It's a Mobility Cart built by Bretford used to securely transport up to 30 MacBooks and iPads in places like higher education institutions. It can smartly charge 10 Macs at once in a rapid charge with a push of a button and charge Macs that are in need of juice without hurting other Macs that are already fully charged. The entire cart only uses one power cord to power the whole operation. The price for one of these? $1,800. 

Apple's Black Friday Sale

Apple will hold a one-day sale in their retail stores as well as on their online store on Black Friday, November 26. Last year, Apple offered a maximum discount of $100 on select Macs, something tells me this year will be the same. Apple's Black Friday sales are nothing really special since you can always get the same discounted price if not more on big online retailers such as Amazon. Check back at 8am this Friday to see what Apple has in store for you.