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KEYPAD FOR IPAD

3/11/2023

 

It’s great that there’s some flexibility here, but truth be told, the maximum
angle is the best angle. Yes, technically you can pivot the top hinge to reduce
the iPad’s angle to perpendicular and, in fact, beyond that into the acute zone.
Same deal with closing the iPad-it’s one motion, as you grab the top of the
screen and push down until the whole thing closes.

Like a laptop, you open it up in one motion, and both hinges extend as far as
they can and then stop. In everyday use, you don’t need to think of it that way,
because it works as a single mechanism. So don’t get too hung up on the fact
that the Magic Keyboard has two separate hinges, one at the back of the keyboard
plane and one a third of the way up the other plane. You could argue that the
design of the modern laptop is the result of four decades of evolution, pushing
the PC ever closer toward its ideal form. But the result isn’t some new, weird
floating-screen category of computer. It’s a clever design, one that pushes the
center of gravity of the combined unit forward, making it more stable (and
requiring less weight to counterbalance it). When the product was announced, so
many of us focused on that clever cantilevered design, in which the iPad floats
above the keyboard, magnetically attached to a hinged backplate. Instead, it’s
designed to provide a laptop-like experience. Perhaps the most surprising thing
about the Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro is that it’s not designed like a laptop.
This is a product that isn’t for everyone, to be sure… but it’s exactly what
I’ve been looking for. It’s one thing for Apple to decide that it’s time to
offer a full laptop experience on the iPad-and an altogether different thing to
execute that vision.Īs I scrutinize the Magic Keyboard, it doesn’t fall apart as
if it were a dream-it holds together, solidly. The Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro
isn’t a dream, it’s a real product, one that’s sitting in my lap right now. But
dreams are amorphous things, and they fall apart if you begin to interrogate
them logically. This is basically my iPad dream, fulfilled. It’s also got that
trademark Apple fusion of software and hardware, thanks to a multi-touch
trackpad and the full cursor support of iPadOS 13.4. The new Magic Keyboard for
iPad Pro isn’t just a physical keyboard that adds laptop-style weight and
stability, though. Less than five years after the iPad Pro and Smart Keyboard
appeared on the scene, however, Apple has decided that it’s time for the full
laptop experience on iPadOS. When I considered the physical challenges of
converting an iPad into a laptop screen-Brydge’s design requires you to slide an
iPad into a couple of padded metal clips, and it has to be heavy enough to
counterbalance the weight of the iPad-I became more convinced that Apple was
never going to bother building anything that would just turn its thin and light
tablet into a heavy laptop. The Smart Keyboard was less stable when you used it
on your lap, and while the membrane keys were surprisingly usable, they still
weren’t a match for the real, physical keys you’d find on a laptop.Ī few
companies, most notably Brydge, offered accessories with a more laptop-like
experience. The arrival of the iPad Pro in 2015 crossed a threshold, and the
iPad rapidly replaced all the places where I once used my MacBook Air.Īs much as
the Smart Keyboard made it clear that Apple endorsed the idea of writing on an
iPad, and as good as the Smart Keyboard is, it still couldn’t quite match the
experience of using a laptop. In 2014 I was frustrated by its limitations, but
had started experimenting with writing on an iPad with Bluetooth keyboard.
Warning: This story has not been updated in several years and may contain
out-of-date information. Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro review: Living the dream



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