In brief: Apple is preparing for a Thanksgiving sale with an online teaser, encouraging customers to "come back to the Apple Store the day after Thanksgiving for a special one-day-only holiday shopping event," touting dozens of gift ideas with free shipping.... MacNN has reviewed Apple's MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo ($2,500), Apple's latest professional notebook featuring Intel's latest mobile high-speed processor.... Faronics has released User Refresh Mac 1.01, its application that allows administrators to maintain baseline user account configurations regardless of user activity.... The National Printing Skills Center in the UK has upgraded to QuarkXPress 7 across its entire organization, and has trained students at the business division of Leicester College (NPSC) on the use of the software since the beginning of the year.... Mosquito SW has released GuancheMOS 1.6, an update to its plug-in that generates as well as validates serial numbers for Mac OS, Windows, and Linux REALbasic applications.