These prices are freakin offensive quite frankly
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Apple Announces Redesigned Magic Keyboard for iPad Air
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If it’s true that Apple has removed the backlighting, then there’s no reason to bother with this keyboard. My older keyboard that I’m using with my 13-inch M2 iPad Air has backlighting and is black - a much better color for a keyboard.
At the car dealership, "Oh, you wanted headlights, that's a five hundred dollar option but comes standard with the next model up vehicle..."
Glad I got the M4 11 iPad Pro with backlit keyboard as it can be used in low light conditions with no issue.
Geez!
Glad I got the M4 11 iPad Pro with backlit keyboard as it can be used in low light conditions with no issue.
Geez!
I think probably sooner, several models of MacBook Air are on backorder right now according to Apple.com.
Just freakin get a mac mini entry model at this point - by the time you add the keyboard to the entry model of this iPad, you are already paying more than the mac mini and you can do way more with the mac mini than with the iPad + keyboard accessory. I still don't understand who is even buying this combination...
The more I've looked at this it's actually a disgrace
$299 - Pro Magic Keyboard (haptic trackpad, aluminium top surface, backlighting, two colours)
$269 - Air Magic Keyboard (NONE OF THE ABOVE, and it's only $30 less!!)
I hope Apple is called out loudly for this, what a ridiculous product
$299 - Pro Magic Keyboard (haptic trackpad, aluminium top surface, backlighting, two colours)
$269 - Air Magic Keyboard (NONE OF THE ABOVE, and it's only $30 less!!)
I hope Apple is called out loudly for this, what a ridiculous product
People like me who use it for casual computer use, then take it out of the case and use it as an e-reader. I have the 11" M2 Air.
The function keys were the only thing I truly missed, and they finally add them -- and kill the backlit keys. WHY?
They won't be
And the next move will be to up the price of the Pro MKB to "fix" this disparity
This is Tim Cook Apple
He's out of levers to pull to "make number go up"
Everything is now about squeezing existing customers for more money, getting people hooked into subscriptions and raising prices
The thing is: they’re two completely different devices, it’s not about pricing. Of course there’s some function overlap, but it’s the same with the iPhone (and no one is saying “you could buy a MacBook instead of an iPhone for a bit more”). A Mac can’t replace an iPad for many of us; I have both and use them in different ways.
I would never ever buy a keyboard without backlighting.
So will the M2 Air Magic Keyboard with backlighting not work at all with the new M3 iPad Air? I need a magic keyboard with backlighting (and prefer black) so thinking I may need to just go for the iPad Air M2 13" instead of the new M3 for the sake of the keyboard
Cheapest iPad with USB 3, a big screen, M processor, Pencil Pro.
People who need some combination of these things will get an Air.
Not sure what's the sense of "just get the pro" which starts at $400 more and seems to offer no must-have for most use cases. Some people don't enjoy wasting $400 as much as you do apparently.
Also not sure what's the sense of "Just get a Macbook" since that's also way pricier and we've established with 11 years of existence of iPads that they're just not laptops and have different uses. All people who want the pencil can't get a Macbook, all people who need to use the device while standing can't get a Macbook, all people who want cellular can't get a Macbook, all people who want mobile apps... and so on.
I mean, I thought this was common sense.
They mean Adaptive backlighting. The new MKB for the iPP M4 has this and its great, basically matches the backlighting to the environment you are in like Touch Tone. Previous Gen MKB has fixed backlighting to what you set it to only.
Some need an LTE cellular connection. We need a laptop with LTE.
I love how this comment section agrees on "this is too expensive" and "people should just spend 400 more bucks. Because"
I will give you that one but not everyone needs the silly keyboard. What a silly keyboard.