Black Friday discounts have already begun in earnest, even though it’s Wednesday. However, we all know Apple has a Scrooge impulse when it comes to discounts on their products so a list has been compiled comparing those offered at MacMail to those offered at Best Buy. The Best Buy discounts are usually, although not always, more significant. These might represent your best opportunity to get that big glowing Apple logo into your life on the cheap, however. Get to it!

Jordan Hubbard, Director of Apple’s Unix Technology Group, made a mistake by listing the coming release date for Snow Leopard OS X. Hubbard accidentally put it on a slide that was used at a presentation at the LISA (Large Installation System Administration) conference.

Up til now, Apple was commenting only that Snow Leopard would be released "in about a year." Now it looks like it will be coming out in the first quarter of 2009. Steve Jobs must be annoyed at this information leak.

Sources indicate that the new MacBooks are having a problem with their trackpads. Apparently, every 50 or so clicks the trackpad freezes up for 5 to 10 clicks until it wakes up.

As of yet, nobody is sure what is causing the glitch. Popular consensus seems to be that it is a software problem and not a problem with the trackpad itself. If you have one of the infected Macbook Pros, you can apply a quick bandaid fix. Go to the Trackpad option on System Preferences and move the slider for "Tracking Speed" up one notch.

Netflix has finally opened their "Watch Instantly" feature to Mac owners. The service, which allows customers to stream from the Netflix catalog, has been a PC-exclusive since it’s inception. The service works via a Microsoft program called Silverlight. You’ll need to download that to your Mac before you can stream the night away.

Also, the company has imposed an Apple-like restriction on the number of devices your account can stream content from. As of now, it’s a six device limit.

It has been a long time coming, but Netflix is finally bringing their beloved "Watch Instantly" feature to Macs. The popular DVD-sharing service will bring it’s streaming video technology and film library to Apple products via use of Microsoft’s Flash-esque Silverlight. The software will allow Netflix to institute the kinds of DRM on Macs they’ve been enjoying on PCs since the introduction of the instant service. The company touts the Silverlight partnership as bringing "breakthrough navigation for fast-forward and rewind" to Macs.

The company notes the service will only work on Intel based Macs, so maybe it’s time to finally get rid of that ancient G3. The service should drop any day now. Click the link for a full press release.