Damn you TSA – the 16gig NewMacbook Pro limit is about battery capacity?

[Andrew Kimery]

[Jeremy Garchow] “I have no idea what workflow you could not do on a 2016 MBP that you can do on a 2011 MBP.”

I could totally do it with a 2016 MBP. I could also do it with a mid-2015 MBP, save a bunch of money and then buy a 2017 (or 2018) MBP that will hopefully have more RAM, the next gen CPUs from Intel, and avoid the USB-C crossover mess as more USB-C devices will exist. The 2016 MBP feels like a ‘tweener’ machine to me and if I’m going to drop $3300-4100 on a laptop I need to feel more confident about that purchase than I currently do about the MBP.

[Jeremy Garchow] “I don’t think I have ever used my iPhone headphones on my laptop.”

Point is less about the headphones used and more about the adapter dance that is needed just to do something as basic wanting to charge your phone via your laptop and have the headphones (any headphones) plugged in at the same time.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Tim Wilson] “But I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect Apple to have made sure that the three hardware products (phone, buds, mbp) they introduce in the same fortnight would include interconnectivity in the box, if not also in the store at launch.”

I know you’ve been out of the Apple game for a while, but I don’t need my phone to hardwire to my computer anymore. They sync wirelessly without me having to do much of anything. If I need a USB3 to lighting cable, they are available right now, today. I just don’t see it as that big of a deal as more now than ever, all Apple products feel like one big device, from my phone to my TV, and I can even share all of that really easily with my family without having to plug in a single cable to transfer anything. I have never used the Apple EarBuds, so it doesn’t really bother me that the lightning versions won’t fit in to a new MBP.

As far as work goes, we adapt everything to everything, a few more interconnects isn’t going to harm, and in some cases it may help.