What is going on, everybody?
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Mike, welcome back to the channel.
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oday we're talking about one of my favorite subjects and that
is iPad stands.
This is the MagFlott float from charge and it is an iPad stand
for the 12.9 inch iPad Pro 11 inch iPad Pro as well as the
10.9 inch iPad Air for the fifth generation.
Now, this iPad stand retails for $149.
You can often find it for $120, which is what they're
selling it for today.
I think there's May 21st Saturday.
So this iPad stand is unique and novel, I think for a
couple of reasons.
So, one, it's very, very, I would say a
premium material.
This is all machined aluminum.
It sounds actually really nice.
It is very heavy coming in at 1.5 pounds.
This backplate here is magnetic and you can attach your
iPad here, which we'll go through in just a minute
to it.
But then you can also rotate it 180 degrees and then you can
tilt it backwards and forwards, giving you a
lot of, I think, new use cases that you might not have been
able to do with previous iPad.
And so in today, we're going to go ahead and set it up or see
how closely resembles the Studio Display, the XDR display
and even the iMac.
So let's get started.
Now, just so you and I are on the same page, the folks over
at CharJenPro did send this out to me free of charge, meaning I
didn't pay for it.
Also, they did not ask me to review it, so I'm reviewing
this on my own accord.
They have no type of influence about what I'm about to tell
you here in the next few minutes.
So just keep that in mind while you're watching this,
because obviously this is $149 and It's not cheap by
any means, but depending on what you are, I would say that
your inclination is for premium accessories and what you're
trying to achieve in your either your desktop or your
setup in general.
This may or may not work for you.
So as I mentioned here it is 1.5-lbs.
It is machined aluminum.
So when you get it, you actually have to attach the
base to the arm here with some hex screws that are inside of
here and does come with a tool to insert that or
to attach that.
Once you attach the plate to the arm, you attach the
backplate to this, which is really how everything works.
Now this backplate is magnetic, meaning that your
iPad Pro or your iPad Air will stick to the back of this
very easily, and it simply attaches to your iPad or your
iPad simply attaches to it using the magnet array that's
on the back here.
Now I have the Pitaka Mag EZ slim case on here,
which doesn't actually matter and it does just attached to it
like so now if you look here at the back,
You see , here's the backplate,
then here's the bottom that's exposed.
So it is covering here.
Now, if I wanted to, I could rotate this very easily,
180 degrees.
I could also, if I wanted to, I could tilt the back
towards you, tilt back towards me.
And here, there we go.
This is a obviously a pass through here.
It does come with a six foot long usb-c cable that is
designed for charging, which is angled.
So when you plug it in the back of here, it's going to wrap
around the back and it will be threaded or it can be threaded
right through this here, giving you a nice, clean setup
look for this.
What I like about it is that I could use this and I could put
it on my desk.
I can put it back here, I could put it next to my display.
And it's going to allow me to use sidecar and universal
control very easily because of the way that it's good
height for that.
Also, if I say I don't even have a mac, I could use
it by itself.
I can also put this on my desk and have it set up for me where
it's a good viewing angle.
I could watch TV, I could watch FaceTime with someone.
I could actually very easily communicate.
I was playing a turn based game on my PlayStation where I could
then turn this over, allow the next person to play,
turn it back.
It does function very well and I do appreciate iPad stands,
really accessories in general that have high build quality
that are you know very well they have pretty materials they
also have kind of multi-use.
So I'm not just stuck using something in a single
configuration or even with a single accessory.
And it just overall this that matches what I like.
Now at the end of the day, you have to ask yourself,
is this worth $149?
Now, I know a lot of you are right now saying, are you
crazy?
I would never spend that kind of money on this iPad
stand at $149.
It does include the six foot long usb-c cable.
That's not a tremendous amount cost.
It might cost like 20 or 30 bucks.
If you're finding that you can find it on Amazon for maybe ten
or 15 bucks if you're buying a inexpensive brand.
But I would say that there's a couple novel features that
you'll need to evaluate whether it's worth it, like the tilt,
the rotation and the build quality.
But outside of that, if I was paying $149 for this, I think
it really depends on where you are at in your iPad journey.
Specifically, if I was nearing the end of my iPad lifecycle,
I was going to maybe upgrade to a new version when it comes out
in the end of the summer or in the fall, I would probably hold
off on it and this is my logic for me.
I just bought this iPad Pro last year.
I'm going to keep it another year or two as long as I
suspect that the new iPad Pro is going to have the same kind
of magnet array, the same design, I'm going to
be okay if I'm not going to buy it right away.
If you just bought a brand new iPad, if you bought the
2021 iPad Pro like I have here, or even the fifth
generation iPad Air five, if you're going to keep that
device for, you know, two, three, four years, there's a
pretty good chance that this is going to be worth it for you.
And I'll explain.
So if I'm going to keep this iPad for four years, I take 365
days per year and times that before I get.
Roughly 1460 days in that timeframe.
So that means I would have this iPad stand for 1460 days.
If I take the total cost of $149 and divide that by 1460,
I get roughly a cost of about $0.10 per day to own this.
So if I'm thinking about how much does it cost me per year
to own this this iPad stand costs $36.50, $0.10 a day times
365 days, which isn't really a bad deal, especially depending
if you use your iPad every day.
It's in the stand and it's part of your setup.
If you're not going to use your iPad every day, if you're not
going to keep it in the stand, well, then that's all the
things that you'll need it to sit on and figure out whether
or not it's worth it in your setup.
But I would say at $0.10 a day, not really a bad deal,
especially if I use it every day as part of my iPad setup
that I'm using on my desk.
Now, if I'm not using the iPad in the in the stand every day,
well, maybe it's something I would need to reconsider if I'm
using it as a secondary display with sidecar or
universal control, you get a little bit more value out
of it.
So that's how I would approach the problem.
But I want to know from you, what do you think about the Mac
float from charging?
Is it worth your hundred and $49 comment down below?
And if you made it this far, would you come at the Shamrock?
That would be nice to know who made the video.
My name is Mike.
This is Tech 24 seven TV folks.
I'll catch you in the next one.