iPad Pro Magic Keyboard - I was WRONG!

It's no secret that over the past few years the iPad Pro has dominated the tablet industry so much that people are starting to use it instead of laptops thanks to the pen's portability, battery life, and streamlined experience. But does Apple's Magic Keyboard make it a true laptop replacement? I've always liked the look of the iPad pro: it's minimally futuristic, as you can expect from any device these days, although it's still practical. Apple may not have updated much of anything on its iPad pro 20/20, but the

keyboard

is new and official. Many of us have been hoping in the past, a smart

keyboard

may be enough, but with the amount of power and capability, people wanted more a proper mechanical keyboard, a trackpad, and a desktop-like app experience, something which the iPad OS has shown signs of, but still.

It has a lot of work to do, but with the hardware edition we could be one step closer, so today we are going to take a look at the iPad Magic Keyboard which starts at a price of 300 dollars and as someone who is a little skeptical. but it also bothers me a little that mine took so long to arrive. I've had a good experience with it, but I think it's important that we take a look at both the details of the product and the deals you can get for the same price. whether it's a smart keyboard and stylus combo or even a MacBook if you haven't already, although I have a 2020 iPhone se giveaway going on so I'll leave a link. at the top of the description, but let's take a look at the current options, so you have the iPad, it starts with a price of $7.99 for 128 gigs and you add a $200 smart keyboard and a $130 Apple pencil and the total takes you at around $1,100. but the other combination for the same price is to go with a

magic

keyboard and the iPad, which brings you once again to $1,100 not including a stylus, which means a fully optimized iPad system and I feel like most pro users You're buying some kind of keyboard that easily costs more than $1000, but there's also another thing to consider: the MacBook is pretty much the same price, and with MacBooks depreciating faster lately, you might even be able to find a 13-inch pro. inches for a comparable price or for the price. for 329 you can also get the starter iPad which is practically the same price as the keyboard because I can assure you that most users will not use the full capabilities of the iPad processor and if you are a student make sure you don't.

Don't forget to use Apple's educational site to get your discount, so I've had this iPad pro since the 2018 model came out and I've had a pretty good experience with it. I haven't really used it to its fullest in terms of artistic use and I like all the powerful video editing you can do with this, but for the most part I loved it and even tried switching completely to a tablet and ditching every MacBook a couple ago of months. and I didn't really feel like it was a laptop replacement when the

magic

keyboard arrived, although I feel like that changed my opinion a bit and I can tell you right away that the keys are amazing to type on.

It gives you that laptop-like experience with the same hardware for the most part, as the finish is the same familiar soft-touch silicone that you'll find on the iPad's Smart Keyboard, and it's also almost quite similar to the ones found on the iPad. found in the Apple silicone cases that I have been using as my main iPhone case for many years, although it collects dust and fingerprints and I am not someone who drops my iPad every day, I have picked up the smart keyboard case all over the world on flights and airports and everything and it still looks new and I also love the fact that it's backlit and you can finally see when you have caps lock on this keyboard with the gap in the keyboard and everything would do.

I'm almost saying that it makes the MacBook more tactile and comfortable to type on because it has a soft touch finish instead of the solid aluminum you're pressing on, for those wondering how that compares to the experience. For a lower-priced Apple Smart Keyboard, I'd say it's actually a pretty big improvement both in terms of magnets and keys because it almost feels a little mushy, although I didn't have any major complaints. The keyboard on the iPad before just didn't seem like the same experience you'd get on a laptop or an Apple desktop where I was very used to typing very fast, it weighs more than a MacBook Air, yes, but the counterweight type design needs this kind of weight to support the system effectively, with the weight well distributed, it's not as bad as you might think, although when it first arrived I was skeptical that this tablet would no longer be available. the weight of a tablet, but I'd be lying if I said the 25% weight increase wasn't noticeable, especially as someone who often carries a laptop when traveling, the magnets are also significantly stronger on the Magic Keyboard and the hinge works well .

See the smart keyword. for the most part pretty good, but occasionally it falls off the tablet side, which robbed the laptop of the replacement experience it was trying to become, and since you paid for it, you also get an Apple logo on the back of your case. Also, something that the smart keyboard also has nothing else to consider when you compare it to a laptop is that a laptop and, more specifically, Apple computers can get very hot when you have it on your lap afterwards. hours of use or you're typing and stuff and that's where all the ventilation goes.

One advantage you have on the iPad is that it simply does not get hot because the keyboard is its own and all the internal components are on the tablet itself, another advantage that might apply to some people, although like me, is that I tend to eat and drinking a lot next to my computer and I've spilled deadly stuff on the keyboard and if you have a MacBook and you spill something on it it's practically toast, whereas on the iPad if you do that you can just replace the keyboard and everything else is still fine, although there are many third-party options.

I've never been a big fan of them and have just used the Smart Keyboard for the past two years, but I think the mechanical experience is unparalleled in this version from Apple. I definitely don't use the iPad or trust the iPad as much as a lot of people, but I feel like even for a moderate tablet user, this keyboard is a nice addition and I think if you use the iPad on a daily basis you'll love it on the technical side. It is a scissor switch keyboard that has one millimeter of key travel. and it has essentially solved all the problems in the previous Apple era of horrible butterfly keyboards since the release of the MacBook Pro late last year, there have been no complaints about this new keyboard design and I think they solved it for good and now It is one of the best keyboards in my opinion.

I really feel that this keyboard fits perfectly between the old Apple keyboards and the butterfly generation, giving you a very nice, comfortable and tactile yet silent feel. I like a bit of feedback on keyboards and feel like a millimeter is the perfect medium that gives you a satisfying, quiet experience, but with the amount of click it lets you feel like you're doing something. I think the biggest thing I noticed is that coming from a regular. A small-sized Apple keyboard or a 13-inch MacBook Pro, the compressed version of the iPad still fits easily into muscle memory and I can type exactly the same way I would on others.

I find it a very good extension for notes and stuff, and if we are using tasks they are like an extension of the computer and it is also much easier not to get distracted with a bunch of tabs and programs open on your child's screen and, in Instead, concentrate on one or two things on your tablet, one thing I do. However, the kind of wish they had were function keys that would make it easier to multitask and see the entire app menu, but at the same time they could change the brightness of the keyboard because there's really no easy way to do that.

Right now you just have to go to settings and stuff, and while using the ambient light sensor will work fine most of the time, you might want to consider the battery from time to time and be able to change it quickly and easily even in the control center. Would have been nice, another little thing I also noticed is the fact that my fingers occasionally touched the bottom of the iPad when using the number keys on the top, not really a big complaint but if you have big fingers you may notice it. That and I know that the whole engineering thing of having to adjust it to a size like this is something that is taken into account and it's like an observation that I noticed while using it, another feature that they also brought over from Mac.

The books that make us closer to a laptop experience is the trackpad and I was someone who didn't really like using a mouse with an iPad. I just didn't feel the need to use it, but after using the trackpad here I do feel it has benefits in some areas, specifically when you're trying to do something like Lightroom and if you're trying to edit a video in luma fusion, it's definitely a pain to have to tap and edit a long video, especially when I'm taking notes and stuff, having to use it as a cursor in a big paragraph.

The trackpad has a great advantage. The latest version of the iPad has improved trackpad support, meaning you can use both the mouse and the trackpad, and I think the mouse option works quite a bit. Well, one thing I can recommend is a Logitech MX Anywhere line that allows you to connect up to three devices and switch between them with the press of a button. It also comes with a number of gestures that can take some getting used to when coming from a computer, but they're mostly intuitive and here are a few: Bringing your cursor to the top left or right of the screen will take you to your notification or control center.

You can also press and hold to activate long-press functions and some of the gestures that are also included are swipe down with three fingers to get to the home screen, swipe left with three fingers to switch between open apps, and use two fingers on a text editing app to open cut, copy and paste options, of course we also can't forget about the stand feature or floating layout - it gives you a 90 to 130 degree traversal range that covers most of settings and angles, but I feel like it should have been more for a tablet the size of 40 degrees.

The movement just isn't much, but I can confidently say that this iPad doesn't fall off the stand easily and is much stronger than the magnets found in the Smart Keyboard, as much as I tried to replace my MacBook with an iPad for a few years. . For months, the fact that it occasionally slipped prevented me from taking it seriously as a laptop. You also find a USB charging port on the left side opposite the one built into the iPad and from what I can tell, the charging speed is pretty similar to the one built into the port.

I like this feature because you can keep that cable out of sight, but I also understand the fact that it won't work for any devices or external storage at the end of the process. The day everything transfers across those three pins on the iPad, another little design suggestion I have is potentially the idea of ​​having an Apple Pencil or even a miniaturized lightweight version that you can insert into this little space here and figure it out. I like the whole battery thing and you have the charging mechanism here, but just as a concept and especially for the price, I feel like people would still buy it if it cost maybe $50 more with a portable version of the Apple pencil because like now It still clips on top which is nice but I know people have wished there was an easier way to carry it even though this Apple Pencil is extremely powerful and I discovered the benefits of procreating when making art it's very precise 120 Hertz screen I feel like some business users who just have this as a moving machine, can mark up PowerPoint notes and just do some very general drawings that don't need all the power of this full pen, would really enjoy some of it. like a built-in stylus so at the end of the day I think this Apple Magic Keyboard is worth it and as someone who is very skeptical and almost wanted to dislike it for its price even though it looks great.

I have to say that it's something that has changed the way I use my iPad more than I expected because I thought my smart keyboard was perfectly fine even though I tried to give the iPad a chance as my type of laptop. replacement I just can't do that because on WordPress and Shopify and such and when using Photoshop the experience and file system on the iPad just doesn'tThey are there and I feel that the software still has a bigger role in defining the experience than the hardware analyst contributes. you are one step closer. I don't think it's a laptop replacement, but does it make it more useful?

Will you use this tablet more because of this accessory? I think the answer is yes, just in the first few days I've had it. I had this keyboard, I've used my iPad a lot more with my computer and my daily workflow and it just makes me want to use it and this whole video was as planned on the iPad and I found that it sped up my workflow like anyone else. Who gets so distracted by a computer? I think if you look at the current state of the iPad lineup, there are some things that really take away from the amount of power that's inside Apple's chips, like we saw in the 2020 model, where they're pretty.

It heavily reused a 20-18 chip and was already way ahead of its field, which shows that Apple has all the capabilities from a technological standpoint in its own chips and we'll start to see that in laptops next year. I'm very excited about it, but at the end of the day, iPad OS still seems to have an odd place in the ecosystem. It's not like a laptop replacement, but in some ways it's a great ecosystem that has been redefined into tablet-specific apps on the App Store that are getting closer to a desktop-like experience, but like I said with the file system and with a kind of mixed experience. in different applications and they like the direction they really want to take.

I just don't feel like it's something that can completely replace something like a MacBook Pro or MacBook Air, especially with the amount of depreciation you're going to have. I was able to find this stuff recently, but I think he gave me $1,500 and gave me a choice between a 13-inch iPad pro with a magic keyboard and a stylus versus a MacBook Pro to do all my work, including video editing, editing photography and running all the businesses, I think the smart decision would be to go for the MacBook because there are certain things I still can't do effectively on the iPad, that being said, although I still love this, I have no plans to get rid of it. and if anything I plan on using it for more things including drawing and procreating so I think it's just about software and giving a desktop experience or a desktop mode to this tablet because it definitely has the power to do that if you guys enjoyed it.

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