So you just bought a brand new iPad pro and you want the very best accessories
Well, the problem is that most the videos that you end up watching seem to recommend the same two accessories
Smart keyboard case and an apple pencil and don't get me wrong
These are great accessories
But you are really looking for something a little bit different that's gonna take your iPad pro to the next level
Well in this video I'm gonna share my six must-have accessories for the 2018 iPad pro. Let's get started
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It is Mike and welcome back to tech 24/7 TV where we bring you the best in
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So like many of you I was on the hunt for the very best accessories after purchasing my brand new iPad in
November of 2018 well
That's because it had all these newfangled
Technologies like USB C and Apple kind of ups told it that it was capable of doing so much
I wanted to make sure that I was prepared in order to take advantage of all the new
technologies that the iPad pro could deliver on but as I said the opening after reading a countless number of blogs and watching a
Zillion YouTube videos, all of the videos seemed to recommend really the same two accessories
Apple pencil
smart Keyboard case
Maybe someone would throw you for a curveball and tell you they get a deeper in skin to protect the back of it
But really this is not what I was looking for. Well, the difference is that I think yet
You are like me and you want to take your iPad pro game to the next level which is why I'm gonna share my six
must-have iPad pro accessories
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My first must-have accessories with a core my setup because it's responsible making sure that my iPad pro is always unstable footing and that
It is gonna be easily accessible no matter the task at hand. This is this a techie our one hinge stand
That's kind of a mouthful. Alright, and this cost thirty four ninety nine
Now I've used several different stands for my iPad and I can tell you that the suteki
Knocks it out of the park from a design and usability perspective
Once you pick this up in your hand
you can tell that this is a premium product just by the
substantial amount of weight that it has it's great because it's available in several different colors including
rose gold gold
silver black and Space Gray the
Premium looking field continues throughout the small details including the thick foam that suteki added anywhere
It comes in contact with another object
You're gonna find that foam padding along the bottom lip where the side of your iPad pro rests along the backrest
All right
where the back of your iPad pro is gonna sit in
Addition to the bottom of the stand where it's gonna come in contact with any other object. I think again, it's just really great as
I talked about in my 45 day review of the iPad pro
My tablet goes with me everyday and at most days it ends up needing to be charged
All right when I get home
my second must-have accessory allows me to quickly charge the iPad in addition to be able to go in and
Consolidate space in my bag and it's not what you think it is
This is the plug bug from 12 south and it cost $39.99
Now I've talked to many people about 12 South some people haven't heard of them
So if you have not this is a company that makes accessories that is exclusively designed for Mac, right?
And you should definitely check them out like this
That laptops and that's 12 South as well. So the plug bug is one of those products. That's so simple
It's really surprising that no one thought of it earlier. All you do is you take your USP C charger that you have
That's from Apple. You remove the wall adapter
all right, and then once you've removed the wall adapter you plug in the plug bug and
Voila what you get is the ability to charge your device? All right, the originally using the u.s. Seaport. You have the wall adapter
That's built into the plug bug and you have a second USB a port, right?
This is going to be able to delivering 10 watts of power to a second device
So, I mean what that means is that for this $40.00 you can actually kind of make this into a dual purpose charger
Now I no longer need to carry two Chargers with me right now
The best thing about the plug bug is that I have a little bit of an older version and 12 South just updated it
They release the plug bug duo, so instead of having one port here on the back. Alright, it actually has two ports
both ports are still capable delivering 10 watts and
It costs the same price
Now if you didn't already purchase the 30 watt charger from Apple and who complain me because I think it's 50 dollars
I have an alternative that's gonna give you kind of very similar functionality and it can be a little bit more affordable than the USBC
charger from Apple and plug plug combination
This is the 30 watt two-port charger from anchor and it cost sitting around 23 dollars
So very kind of aptly named. It is 30 watts of total power between two different ports
You have the USB C port here, which is power delivery. That's gonna be able deliver 18 watts of power to your
IPad or to any I guess any other device?
In addition to 12 watts of power via the USB a port here that's on the bottom
Now couple things to be aware of here
so this is 18 watts like I mentioned this is the same wattage charger that comes with your iPad pro what you're getting here is
The ability to charge a second device via the 12 port here on the bottom of it. The plug here is gonna be fixed
It's not removable like you see on the more expensive Apple USBC charger
So you are gonna be getting at two-thirds of the you know, the the ability to charge two-thirds of the performance
My third must-have accessory is going to be perfect for anyone who's a photographer
And likes to work with their image files on their iPad pro
This is the Unitec 3 slot memory card reader end screen $15 on Amazon in my opinion
This is gonna be a great reader to have in your bag because it supports microSD like you find on
GoPros and on Android phones
It's going to support SC like you find on most modern cameras in
addition to being able to
read compact flash which you see on a
Lot of more expensive or even older cameras as an alternative to the Unitec. I would suggest the first party solution from Apple
This is the USB see
SD card reader and it's 39.99. The reason why I would suggest this card reader over others
this is UHS 2 compliant and what that means is that it can read and write data at
156 megabytes per second compared to the Unitec version which only supports UHS UHS one
My fourth must-have accessory is just about the most integral part of being productive on the iPad
This is the full-size aluminum keyboard from suteki and it features the same styling as the r-1 hinge that we saw earlier
It's available in several different finishes and very importantly you can connect to up to 3 devices with a touch of a button
it's got great key travel and
It charges via USB C and what I like best about this keyboard is that function modifier keys are here on the top row
So after the keyboard is connected you have the ability to use the function keys based on the integration being in iOS
My fifth must-have accessory comes from a little company in Seattle that you may or may not heard of
this is the iPad pro cache and ask from Tom bin and retails for
$45, so if you haven't heard about Tom bin, they it's a guy named Tom who designs and manufactures high quality luggage in Seattle
Washington the cache is a tablet sleev
Which is designed with quarter-inch padding all the way around to protect your iPad from bumps and bruises in
addition to YKK zippers to seal it up
If you have a Tom bin bag
The cache has a set of one-inch rails on the back of it and a set of clips. So it connects into your bag
So it couldn't slide easily in and out of otherwise, it can easily fit into almost any bag that you have
So my sixth and final must-have accessory is the 13-inch sling sleep deluxe from encase which cost
$59.99 now the sling sleeve is made of an all nylon construction. It features two pockets on the front
Those pockets are large enough to hold an iphone a notebook around the size of the field notes and some dongles or chargers
This is in addition to the interior pocket that is lined with faux fur in order to protect your iPad
So there you have it folks my top 6 accessories for the iPad pro
Let me know what you would add or remove from my accessory list. What is your favorite accessories?
What are you carrying with you out a daily basis?
Let me know in the comments below hit like hit subscribe and I will talk to you in the next one