1/21/2024 0 Comments Keyboard folio![]() ![]() There is no question that a touchscreen laptop is an ergonomic nightmare. The smart keyboard is too far behind the magic keyboard If I was to buy a new keyboard for my iPad today it would either be the Magic Keyboard or a third party one. Why did I never think about that before on my own? I feel a bit ashamed after reading advice. Is it worth it? It is very, very expensive… But I bought it and I never had second thoughts about my buying decision. The only negative point I have is its very, very expensive price. The iPad has become my go-to device for Windows Server updates and for other maintenance stuff on Macs and PCs when attached to the Magic Keyboard in combination with Jump Desktop. The iPad becomes a different device with the Magic Keyboard: it is like a laptop - with iPadOS. The trackpad changes how I interact with the iPad when attached to the Magic Keyboard. I think that this keyboard is one of the best Apple has made. The Magic Keyboard is a completely different ball game. But the typing experience is not nice as far as I am concerned. What I like about the Smart Keyboard Folio is the fact that you can fold it all the way to the back of the iPad when it is not needed. This may seem excessive, but hey, they put a SoC with 64GB of storage inside a display, so why not put a battery in a keyboard? And perhaps instead of making it only drain battery from the iPad they could offset that by placing a small battery in the barrel. My hope for the next gen iPP+MK is that they’ll make it with an actually nice material, like aluminum. Other than that, it was arguably a more coherent accessory than the MK. The one thing that did frustrate me and would frustrate me now if I was to go back to it was the choice of only two angles. I loved the feel of those keys and I loved the convenience of knowing it was fully spill proof. I typed most of my dissertation on the SKF. But I appreciate that with such a thin device you’ll never be able to squeeze a haptic vibration motor in there. Also after getting used to the glass haptic trackpads the bouncy plastic seems really cheap. Underneath the crappy rubber it has a metal core, it would have been a million times better if they had just exposed that. For a supposedly premium product, it’s a terrible choice of materials. I got the apple store to replace it under apple care+ and now I have a new one. The plastic it’s lined with is crap, and mine had peeled and broken and got stained with oils from normal use to the point that it was shameful. That said, I find the magic keyboard so frustrating. The MK was a revelation when it came out, and I was happy to overlook the added weight given the extreme convenience of having a single cellular enabled device that could be a laptop one moment and a wonderful pdf annotation pad the next. Since 2018 my 12.9” iPad Pro has been my main mobile computer, and I’m a humanities postdoc, which is to say, I type a lot (or at least I’m supposed to!). I had the SKF with my 12.9” since 2018 and upgraded to the MK the day it was released. If I was still using the 12.9” iPad, I might prefer the Magic keyboard.Īnd now having written this, I will pop the iPad off the keyboard folio and hold it in my hands while I give this post a quick read-over before sending. I suspect my preference for the folio has a lot to do with the device size. Either my fingers are used to it or the keys loosened up. On the other hand, I did find the keys stiff for a while after I bought it. It’s altogether a lighter, and more portable and easy to use option for me than the Magic Keyboard was. I find it easier to get the iPad attached and detached from the folio than I did with the Magic Keyboard. And I decided to save $100 and buy the still-ridiculously-expensive smart folio keyboard.Īnd I am glad I did, although the keyboard took some getting used to. But then I said, “I’m going to use this iPad every day for years, and the non-matching colors will drive me crazy every day if I do not exchange it now.” “Who cares what color it is?” I said to myself. However, either due to my error or Apple’s, I got the white keyboard with the space gray iPad. I liked the Magic Keyboard with the iPad Pro, and ordered one for the Air. So I exchanged it last year for a 10-ish inch iPad Air. I had a 12.9” iPad but struggled to use it one-handed, which is how I use the iPad much of the time. ![]()
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