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Karma Medic here and welcome back to another dose ,if you're new to the channel
hi,
my name is Nasir and I'm now a third year medical student studying at King's College, London
And I've used my iPad pretty much every single day since the day that I bought it. I absolutely love it. It's light
It's lightning fast and does everything that I needed to. I use the iPad
primarily as a note-taking device in this position here using Notability to take notes in my medical school lectures
I've wanted a keyboard for the longest time. I've wanted one so bad, but there was never anything good enough on the market
And so I waited and so today that wait is finally over
So this is it this is the new Apple magic keyboard
so in today's video
I'm gonna show you and demonstrate
To you everything you need to know about Apple magic keyboards that you can decide if you want to purchase one for yourself
The first thing that I want to comment on is this magnetic snapping into place. It is very sturdy
I wouldn't be worried about my iPad falling out or anything even with a lot of shaking the second thing that I noticed is that
This is decently heavy
it's not quite as light as the iPad by itself or the iPad in the smart folio case that I had before in fact the
Case feels almost as heavy as the iPad itself I'd say the iPad is still a little bit heavier in weight
but I'd say they're pretty close and just for comparison, I have my 13-inch MacBook Pro over here and
Comparing the two the MacBook Pro is definitely heavier, but not by much. They're fairly similar
if I'm honest as far as the thickness of the iPad with this new keyboard in case anyone is wondering
Now the keyboard itself has two hinges on it
There's the main one down at the bottom over here
Which also has a convenient USB-c
see pass through in order to charge the device while it's in the keyboard case and then at the top there's a second hinge which
Allows you to change the iPad to different viewing angles. Now, let's move on to talking about every aspect of this thing
Alright, let's start by talking about the keyboard. So I'm going to open up my note-taking app of choice Notability
Wow, it feels so strange using a keyboard and track on my iPad
All right, I'm gonna select the text box tool and start writing. Hi
My name is Nasir and I'm studying for the USMLE exam
Okay, right off the bat that feels very very good
Definitely better than this keyboard that I've been using for the last year and a half or so in comparison to that keyboard the travel
Of the keys is a lot deeper they feel almost more mushy like they're a bit softer and have more padding these keys over here
Are a lot more hard and clicky the keyboard is of a normal size
So I don't feel like my hands are cramped close together or anything like that
In fact, I think they're about the same distribution as this one over here. Yeah, it's the exact same size as my normal keyboard
Alright after having typed over there for a little bit
I can confirm that my fingers don't hit the iPad when I'm typing and if my fingers don't hit the iPad
Well, then yours probably won't either I also want to make the comment that the keyboard itself is not flimsy at all
I've also noticed that the keyboard is actually quieter than the other one, which I've been using. I'll let you guys decide for yourself
Alright and now the same sentence typed on my old keyboard
All right, now let's move on to talk about the comfort of this keyboard case on the iPad in different situations
So sitting down at a desk like this
I can definitely say that the viewing angles are more than enough
Even for someone like me who's quite tall and might need the iPad tilted back as far as it possibly goes
Which is something that I cannot say about the previous keyboard for the iPad
Those viewing angles were always a bit too shallow
something like this and they never provided me with enough of a tilt to feel comfortable when sitting down and typing now as far as
sitting down on a chair goes
Maybe you're a student in a large lecture hall and you don't have anywhere to set your iPad down
I personally owned a 12'9 inch iPad and I will say it's definitely big enough to put down on your lap and not
Feel that you have to put your knees really close together in order to prevent it from falling down through the gap
However, I will comment on is that the iPad is definitely top-heavy and what I mean by that
Is that the majority of the weight of the iPad is over here
It's where the screen is not down here where the keyboard is as you would see in a traditional laptop now when you're sitting down
On a flat surface like a table. This isn't as much of a problem
You'll see that I have to push the iPad quite far back before it starts to fall Oh
Almost now when you have the iPad on your lap, you're naturally in a slightly more downwards bent position
And so it's a little bit easier to reach that point where the iPad can start tipping backwards
But Apple have clearly done some magic design with the balancing over here
It's not easy to get to that position, but it's an accident that could happen if you're sitting down on the couch
This isn't really something that you need to worry about. It's a lot more stable and your iPad isn't gonna go anywhere
Laying down in bed if I'm quite honest, I never use my iPad like this
It's mostly a Productivity machine for me for the few times that I've used my iPad in bed
It's been quite uncomfortable because there's nothing to rest it against there's nothing to hold in place
I kind of just have to hold it like this the whole time
So now that I have this case, I imagine I'm gonna be using it a lot more because I can angle it
However, I want I can put it off to the side and it's just so much easier to use
All right
now
Let's move on to talk about the actual
Trackpad and this is probably what I'm most excited about being able to move through the iPad pages using these gestures and go up halfway
To pull up the multitasking switching between apps. I mean this is just so so so great
I can't wait to incorporate using all of these gestures into my workflow and just make using my iPad that much more of an efficient
And pleasant experience the trackpad itself feels very very good. It slides around smoothly
The cursor also flows very well on the screen pretty much exactly what you would expect from the normal Apple trackpads
Of course the trackpad on the iPad is much smaller, but honestly, I haven't felt it at all
I still feel like my finger has plenty of space to move around and it's really not something that I've noticed while using the keyboard
the trackpad itself does click I
Personally don't click to select things
I just tap on the touchpad and it's good to know that you can do both over here as you can see when moving the
cursor around the screen it
automatically clicks it like sort of gets sucked into the next app or the next box that you might want to use and I actually
Really like this. It's extremely convenient funnily enough
The YouTube app hasn't updated to take advantage of this feature
But I'm sure they will in the future. I find it very smooth and intuitive
I thought it was gonna be quite annoying but not at all. Now before I move on to talk about how the Apple pencil
integrates into this keyboard case
I want to give a quick shout out to the sponsor of today's video Paperlike, now Paperlike besides being an actual screen protector
That protects your iPad from any scratches or damage that it might take which also helps prevent those oily
Fingerprints from showing up on your iPad after you've been touching and using it all day
it actually makes writing or drawing on the iPad feel just like paper, which is something that I found very
important in my transition from using pen and paper to going completely paperless and
digital in my life. Another great thing about the Paperlike screen protector is that it adds just enough
Grip so that you don't feel like you're writing on a slippery slab of glass when you're taking notes on the iPad
I'm telling you it makes it feel just that little bit more like writing on paper
It's something that I write on every single day. It's something that I use every single day
And now that I've used it
I can't imagine taking notes on my iPad without it
If you guys want to learn more about the iPad screen protector, you can check out the links in the description down below
But since writing on the iPad with the Apple pencil is something that's very important to me
I want to be able to do that using this keyboard case. So, let me put it back on real quick
Now the first thing that I'm very happy to see is that there's a place to keep my Apple pencil
That's great
but something very
Important to know is how easy and comfortable is it to write in this position because in an ideal world I could go from writing
A script or a document or an essay using the keyboard and then also using the pencil to write handwritten notes
that would be
Perfect. If I move this as close to me as possible, and I tilt it as far back as possible and start writing
Not gonna lie. This definitely is not convenient which is actually what I expected having looked at this keyboard online and everything like that
But I was kind of hoping that I could tilt this in a way or put it in a position
That would make it useful for writing. Oh
Can I press down okay, not so much okay, okay
So this position very much mimics the writing position that I had using the smart folio case, which was something like this
Very very similar, right? Alright now if I start writing, let's see what happens
All right
So I very quickly discovered that if you write on the top half of the screen the weight of your hand
Is enough to push the keyboard down and out of that convenient writing position
However, if I can just hold it in place, I think it will stay no if I place my hand over here
Which is where I would naturally rest my hand anyway, when sitting down and taking notes with my iPad
I can write towards the top of the screen and it doesn't collapse so clearly the keyboard case wasn't designed with writing using the Apple
Pencil in mind but having the iPad in this strange backwards upside-down
Configuration is sort of like a temporary fix if you have the keyboard case on you and need to take a small amount of notes
I definitely wouldn't say you can take notes like this for hours on end
so
unfortunately
Not quite the ideal world that I was hoping for where I could type notes on a keyboard and then take out the Apple pencil
And start writing down handwritten notes like that
Now if you're gonna take notes using the Apple pencil in this position over here
You will notice that there is quite a bit of a wobble when you're writing down your notes and I certainly would not be able
To write down any kind of lengthy
Complicated notes like you see on the screen here if I was using the iPad in this position. All right
Now let's talk about the gestures that you can use on the trackpad in order to navigate through your iPad first things first
If you want to reach the multitasking menu, you take three fingers and move them up
But take a slight pause in the middle and that's what brings up the multitasking page
you can move left and right through this page by swiping with two fingers just like this and if you want to select any of
These of course you can just click right on it
If you want to go to the home screen from any open application
You take three fingers and swipe up and if you want to switch through your open applications
You can take fingers and just swipe left or right if you want to open hovering applications
You can take your mouse and move it to the far right of the screen and then push right again
You can also swipe through the open
multitasking
Applications that you have here using your three fingers moving left and right and then if you want to close that you can just go
To the top here and drag that over to the side of the screen another convenient thing you can do is open command tab
Which opens up all the apps like this and then you can use command Q to quit those apps and close them
All right
And I think that's about everything that I wanted to talk about with the new Apple
Magic keyboard if there's anything I forgot to mention or anything you'd like to ask me that wasn't in this video
Please do let me know in a comment down below my overall impressions with the iPad magic keyboard case
is that if you use a
Keyboard for your iPad then this is the one to get if you're someone who does a lot of typing in their day
For example, if you're a university student or you have lots of essays to write you do research on your iPad
Maybe you write video scripts for YouTube videos on your iPod and you need a keyboard then this is the one to get
Alright guys, and that is it for me for this video. I really hope that you enjoyed it
and if you did
Please do leave me a like on this video and subscribe to my channel to see more content from me in the future
Hope you're having a wonderful day, and I will see you in the next one. Peace!
And so today that wait is finally
Test up now when you're sitting down on the table, this isn't as much of a problem
You'll see that I have to push the iPad quite far back before it starts to tell
There you go. I have it in the