hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and this is apple's magic keyboard i've been
using it every single day with the 2020 ipad pro
and it's just something that i absolutely love from apple
now the price is way too expensive at $349
but the way it works and the way it feels and the build quality
kind of make it close to worth it for me although it is still the most expensive
keyboard or case i've ever purchased now it holds onto the
the ipad magnetically and this is sort of a work of art internally and ifixit
did some x-ray scans and take a look at these because
this is incredible how many components are actually inside this
now it's held on magnetically as you can see in that x-ray scan
you can also see it here with magnet paper and i've shown
it in the unboxing video as well and it just holds the ipad on and it's not
going to fall off in fact if i just shake the ipad
you'll see it's not going to fall off at all it's held on very tightly and of
course you don't normally walk around with it held up
like that now it is adjustable i would like for it to go back a little bit
further but it's nice and adjustable and it's
really at the perfect angle for my height
you could adjust it down if you're a little bit shorter but i'm fairly tall
around six feet and my torso is very tall so
that this angle is pretty perfect depending on how you're seated of course
now as far as the build quality this is phenomenal as far as the way it sounds
every time i close this it's something i notice so let me see if you can hear
this
it's just a nice solid thunk every time you you swing that magnet shut
it sort of grabs on when you do this it grabs the bottom of the case down here
and then when you push it open it's at a perfect angle and it looks like it's
floating in front of you even though it's just held onto a case
now i do have a couple complaints about it so as much as i like it there are a
couple things i don't like let's go ahead and unlock it here
and using the ipad like normal like this is great now
previous to this before i talk about the keyboard and things previous to this i
was using the other keyboard or the smart keyboard
and while it was pretty good this keyboard is like using a real
laptop keyboard from the latest macbook pros
so this one's really mushy it feels much more like
the previous generation macbooks it works fine i never had any problems with
it on the previous generation ipad pro or even this one but the nice thing it
has is you can flip it around that's the one thing you don't get with
this magic keyboard but what you do get is this amazing
keyboard it's a backlit keyboard and if i go into something like notes
you can type on it without any issues saying hi
this is aaron from zolotek and you'll see i don't type normally and
i've said this many times before in other videos
but it works really well you can use the trackpad to highlight text without a
problem and it just works phenomenally well
however i find that i don't use the trackpad too often
i usually find that i'm using the keyboard and then reaching up to use
the actual ipad itself but you can swipe through different things with the
trackpad and it just depends if i'm seated at a table or if i'm sitting
on say a couch or in a chair or something like that
the nice thing is it won't tip over if it's on your lap unless you have it at
an extreme angle too so for example if i bring in these
powerbeats pro cases here this is pretty thick if i sit this under
the keyboard you'll see it won't tip over now if you
get much further than that maybe it'll tip over but still
it wants to come back down right on towards you so it doesn't seem to tip
over so it does have that lap ability that people want if you're sitting and
you don't have any table or anything like that
now it's fairly thin it's fairly heavy though and when it's closed
it's nice and secure it protects the ipad and it gives you an extra port not
only to charge but also you can use the port on the bottom
to maybe use a usbc drive or something like that so you
can't use the port to charge it and for usb this is only for charging
you want to use the usbc port on the bottom for file transfer
and so it is a little bit thicker but i don't really mind that thickness and
weight because it's just something that i really enjoy
using it looks great and when i want to go
i just take it off the ipad stand or the magic keyboard here
and i'm good to go i come back snap it into place and i can use it just fine
and so it's something that i use along with my iphone every single day
and i use it for watching youtube videos sometimes using pixelmator photo with
the pencil and it's just an incredibly nice
keyboard to use as far as typing but i have two complaints about this one
i've sort of already mentioned is that you can't tilt it back around so
if you want to use it in bed you have to sort of lay it on maybe your
chest and tilt it down like this to actually watch the screen
now the other thing you could do of course is detach the ipad pro but before
with the other one you could have it at a different angle and it wasn't as bad
the other thing other than the price that i mentioned earlier is there's no
keys at the top to adjust things like brightness so you have to go into the
control center adjust brightness here and while that's
not a huge issue it was nicer on the logitech keyboards
and things to have those buttons up here so
a couple buttons for volume or brightness instead of going into the
control center and then going to volume you do have a
ton of keyboard shortcuts and you get to those by holding down command so maybe
your notes and i hold command it will show me all
of the shortcuts here so you do have those as an option but
it's just not as nice as having those buttons on the top like you do on a
macbook that's the one thing this keyboard is missing and that logitech
keyboard's got right the key travel and everything else is
just great and the build quality is phenomenal and it ought to be for the
price so i highly recommend this but this is
really for someone that's replacing their laptop
with an ipad i think most of the time you could use this 100
of the time you can edit videos with things like lumafusion
you can create videos with it whatever you want to do and it's just super fast
all the time and so i'm looking forward to something
such as logic pro or final cut pro for me and
then xcode then this could be a hundred percent my
laptop all the time and without final cut pro there is
lumafusion but there's a couple things i would like to see changed
as well with the file system but overall i love this keyboard i'll continue using
it and i'm glad i bought it but if you already have the smart keyboard
and you really like it it's really hard to justify 350 or so for this one on the
12.9 inch ipad pro but let me know what you think about the
smart keyboard in the comments below i really like it the build quality is
phenomenal oh and one more thing it does eat a
little bit more battery than normal not a ton more so when the back light is
on so it will use more battery if i go into my
settings so you can see this is my usage over the few days that i've been using
it i don't plug it in every day but you get the idea i get about
eight to ten hours out of it no problem and it seems to work fine but
just keep in mind that it will use a little bit extra battery but you can
plug it in like a laptop and just leave it on your desk but let
me know if you have any other questions about it i'd love to answer those in the
comments below and if you have anything else you'd like
to see specifically about this such as maybe key travel a little bit more
let me know in the comments below as well if you'd like to get your hands on
this wallpaper of course i'll link it in the description as i always do
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Aaron i'll see you next time