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First Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro Hands-On Videos Appear Online
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Duh. Space is at a premium; the keyboard needs to fit the size of the iPad after all. I’d rather have full size keys and no function keys than have smaller keys scrunched together to permit a row of function keys.
I did but decided instead to wait and see as more info came in. It’s easier for me to wait and purchase later than to work out a return if I decide I just have to go for it. I dont like to return things. I thought about leaving it at my desk since that is the main location I use a keyboard and swapping to the keyboard folio when I got up but well, again just decided to wait and see. The keyboard folio with magic trackpad is pretty workable. The trackpad stays at the desk when I’m sitting there and its not something that goes with me. I really like the magic keyboard and I like the improvement of the keyboard keys for the times I am in that mode just not sure yet that I am sold on it being a better solution for me. I have no typing issues with my folio, confortable at this point having used it daily. I dont need backlit keys, I never even look at them I just naturally know where my fingers need to be to type since I do it so much or at least I am not sitting in a competely dark room typing. Anyhow, yes I thought about it. I stared at the screen for a while before I hit cancel. They will be available after the first rush so its not a one and only purchase opportunity.
I decided to experiment with my Smart Keyboard Folio to see if I could simulate the Magic Keyboard for the purpose of assessing how wobbly the Magic Keyboard would be. I pulled the iPad’s bottom off the Smart Keyboard slot and then shook the keyboard with unsupported iPad around. There was no give whatsoever. So I suspect concerns about the Magic Keyboard being unstable or wobbly might actually not be an issue. Can’t wait until mine arrives so I can put that to the test!
That’s not what was said though. Something being 100% too expensive is taken as it costing 100% more than it should. If something is $150 and is 100% more expensive, it makes it $300.
Ridiculous.....🤦♂️ Yes evolution has totally failed with the many duck species, some of which actually live on or in water (swimming and diving). Some migrate large distances by...flying.
Do humans swim like a shark and fly like an eagle?
It is still a poor analogy, accept it.
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One thing that I haven’t seen included in the litany of complains:
What is the proper way to open this thing up? There isn’t any cutout like there is on the MacBooks where you can force separation between the two halves. You just have to kind of pick a place along the edge and try to squeeze it open. Not as much of a problem on the current keyboards because there’s no hinge that you’re working against.
What is the proper way to open this thing up? There isn’t any cutout like there is on the MacBooks where you can force separation between the two halves. You just have to kind of pick a place along the edge and try to squeeze it open. Not as much of a problem on the current keyboards because there’s no hinge that you’re working against.
A very good point about what is exactly wrong with the clumsy keyboard that does not do any magic for the tablet from Apple.
It's far from magic and absolutely not worth over $200 or $300 with low-grade material for the chassis and utterly overpriced.
Making such sweeping statements based on 2 amateur YouTube reviews is funny.
Like many others I’ll decide for myself and use Apple’s no questions asked returns policy if it’s not good enough.
It’s a real video and it’s not hard to make assumptions-ruins based off of a real video.
You’ve been pathologically posting your hatred for this product since the first low res YouTubd vid dropped, so I think you’ve made your mind up no matter what.
It's your call of course
I for one will be making my own mind up from physically touching and using it.Apple and Microsoft are arriving at broadly similar places, but by very different paths. Microsoft has been experimenting with tablet PCs since the early 1990s. They tried to take a desktop OS and make mobile and tablet OSes out of them. Apple essentially started from scratch with a touch-oriented mobile OS (Steve Jobs’s “iPhone runs OS X” exaggeration notwithstanding) and has been adding desktop features to it. Apple’s approach was better suited to the technology that existed in 2010, and let them essentially create the tablet market that Microsoft had long struggled to do. Of course, Microsoft hasn’t stood still, and has added touch-oriented modes and features to Windows 10 (after first botching it with Windows 8).
I don’t hate the product. I’m just saying that seeing a demonstration of the product is enough for people to form an a opinion. Like seeing someone getting burned is enough for me not to want to be burned. I’m not trying to upset anyone, it’s just a very un -Apple product.You’ve been pathologically posting your hatred for this product since the first low res YouTubd vid dropped, so I think you’ve made your mind up no matter what.
It's your call of course
In your opinion.
I think the comparison of seeing someone burned is extreme and misleading as well.
Just seems weird you’ve spent so much time and posts slagging the keyboard, calling it cheap and so on, off of a few homemade, often one-handed and oddly lit, YouTube reviews. And why it wasn’t enough to state your disdain once.
Anyway, I’m not here to argue. It’s quite late here and I’m winding down. I respect your opinion, just find it bewildering just how many posts you’ve dedicated to slating everything about it. If we were all the same he world would be boring I guess.
We can't deny that Microsoft put significant effort in making it look more modern and full-size trackpad.
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Totally agree. Microsoft was too large and lumbering while having to drag along all its legacy (and some really bad management). Microsoft is a little more streamlined these days and the Surface team are making good progress, in a few years I think they will have nailed it. This also means Apple will as well. Apple has had 10 years to get where they are with the ipad today. The Surface program is a little younger. Good times ahead for all consumers.
But that’s the Surface Book, which is basically a MacBook Pro-class notebook that happens to turn into a bulky tablet if necessary. Could Apple have taken a similar path? Perhaps, but then the keyboard part of it would be even heavier.
The Surface Pro is closer to the iPad Pro. That relies on the hinged stand, plus a keyboard that magnetically connects to the bottom of the screen.
Completely agree. It looks “sub-ZAGG” if being honest.
The keys look like they are off some knockoff junk from Aliexpress
could be a stuck accelerometer - if they work in other applications (e.g. games, garage band), it's a software bug. i had this happen multiple times on my ipad since 2010 - nothing a reset (shortly press the volume up button, then the volume down button and then hold the power button until the apple logo appears)
Better than nothing, though.
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Have you tried toggling orientation lock? Always fixes the issue for me (but of course we could be experiencing the same issue with different causes).
I don't like the new keyboard cover. It's too basic. It's 2020, why couldn't they take a leaf out of Microsoft's, Samsungs etc book. Seperate kick stand, magnetic tilt on the keyboard for comfort. I mean even a split cover like the tab s6 so you don't have to fold the keyboard round would be better than this horse ****.
i disagree - this Keyboard is a very Apple solution to an existing problem. When it was rumoured, people were wondering if it would have a kickstand or have two viewing angles, just like their keyboard folio. Instead they’ve come up with this “floating” iPad with adjustable viewing angles.
Whether you like the product or not, you have to admire the design of it surely?