What is going on everyone? It's Mike and welcome back to Tech
24/7 TV. We are talking about the Apple Magic Keyboard here
I've been using this for the twelve point nine inch 2020
iPad Pro and I think I gonna say that I'm a fan. So I've
been using this for about four days and this is probably the
most solid first pass at a keyboard. Which makes sense,
right? It's their own product but it works extremely well.
It's a little bit on the heavy side. Now it's not as
heavy as I thought. You know some people that reviewed this
were commenting about how heavy it was taking it out of
the box.
And while I agree with them it is, it's about as heavy as
the iPad but I think that comes from the perspective of someone
who doesn't use an iPad Pro with a keyboard all the time.
So it's not any heavier than using it with the, or it's not
remarkably heavier than using it with the Brydge Pro or the
Logitech Slim Folio Pro it's not dramatically heavier. So
that's what I would say. That's a little bit to my shock. Now
what I can tell you is that this outside is the same soft-
touch material that Apple uses on their most recent generation
of the keyboards. It's a little bit different texture from the
Smart Keyboard Folio from last year the first generation. Here
you can hear my son screaming in the background.
He's going in the pool jumping pool. So this is
looking good. Here you see the apple logo It's embossed or
debossed actually. here in the back. When you first opened
up this is as far as it will go ahead and open.
When you hear you wonder what kind of surprising if you want
to an open it, you need to go out and turn it here up at
the top.
Now there's this cantilever design where it appears that
the iPad is floating because it's held in place by about 75
percent of this backplate here across the back. Now once you
have it here you can tell put down you can go ahead and pull
it up and then Tilt it forward and the magnets are super
strong like here of what you
See like this is pretty heavy. It actually closes the iPad
before anything. I'm really surprised how strong this is
not that I'm trying to drop my iPad in that is a fact because
there's no magnets here and all that has to be secure here so
it's extra strong. It does work extremely well. I was going to
use the SMART connector on the back to go ahead and power it.
And in my experience, the battery life, charging this is
about the same rate as when you go in plug directly in here so
there's not very much loss when it comes to using this pass
through charging port on the bottom here the keyboard typing
experience is really nice.
I compared it against the 2020 MacBook Air and it felt just
the same. I think I like the MacBook Air take me experience
just a little bit more but the keyboard experience
is wonderful. The trackpad experience is just like using
the Magic Trackpad 2. It's just a little bit too small.
I'd say it's half-inch too small vertically and
horizontally as well. I wish it was a little bit bigger but I
would not want to have the sacrifice of keyboard space or
keep the size of the keys nearly a bigger trackpad. Also
the function keys I wish there were function keys here along
the top to going to be quick access to a volume,
display brightness, that would be great for to those aren't
there and that's the case I wouldn't want those to come in
at the expense of keyboard real estate either but would be nice
if there's maybe some kind of capacitive buttons along the
side here where you can just kind of raise or lower the
volume
that would be kinda cool
Backlighting on this keyboard is really good. He likes the
way that it just kind of softly comes on when it opens up. The
backlight is always on. You can't change the timeout
duration which I wish that you could but you can't change the
brightness by going into the keyboard configuration inside
the settings and it would be nice to have somewhere to hold
the pencil but that, unfortunately, is not it.
I see for a first pass this is a very solid first pass.
Obviously they're not new to making keyboards but this is a
brand new product. Now. A couple of things that I think I
don't like the number of viewing angles least usable
viewing angles for me are sufficient but not ideal.
I mean we have to have this bend back just a little bit
from here. This cantilever that would be great.
The effort that's required to take this off even those
magnets are that strong is great. Which is why you have
this area right here to go and snap your fingers in and out
and just pull it apart because that magnetized these had even
stronger to hold the entire way to the pad. And it's very
strong and obviously it holds that you just saw that
Now. I do like this a lot. I would say at three hundred or
three hundred and fifty dollars if you are someone who uses
your iPad strictly as someone you know as your primary
computing device it's often you want to look at at that
dollar amount. You know you can get a cheaper alternative
whether it's the Brydge whether it's just a smartphone keyboard
and my trackpad separately you're getting a mouse you can
get it no different ways but it's quite questionable. I mean
this is for someone who is using this obviously as their
laptop replacement but here's my thing.
If you're using this as your primary machine or you know
maybe a secondary machine in many contexts opposed to maybe
having a desktop we'll using that one desktop context. This
is a really good replacement but if you're using this as
your primary machine and you have an external monitor at
home I would say that this solution may not be the best
for you because the integrated trackpad is always going to
limit you to using the keyboard with this unless you already
have a keyboard and a trackpad that you use somewhere else.
You know I use my iPad both. At home
In the office on the way to work when I'm at home I'm
docking my iPad more likely if I want to connect it to my
monitor suddenly I can stay inside of this and I already
have a keyboard that I use I already have a mouse that I use
every have trackpad because it's three hundred fifty bucks
if I were to use this at my house with my Thunderbolt
display even though and work I would have to use this keyboard
to have use this trackpad and I really don't want to do that I
want a full-size keyboard and a full-size trackpad to get the
most out of it. This is a little bit too limiting and I
don't think that many people who come to look at this have
that experience and that's why it's a little bit unique here.
Let me know your questions or comments that you have in the
comments below. And I have a kind of comparison review
between this, the new bridge Pro Plus, the slim folio pro
and as well as the doco. So let me know if you see that. Make
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While he is yelling really loud. He's having a lot
of fun. Hopefully not too distracting
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