![]() ![]() The keys are a bit mushy compared to my MacBook Pro, with a bit more travel, but I found it immediately easy to adapt to. There’s also no row of function keys, or Touch Bar there’s not enough room for either. – are noticeably narrower, so they take getting used to. The keys are a bit slimmer than on a laptop, and the non-letter keys at either side – tab, caps, caps lock, etc. The keyboard is essentially the same as Apple’s laptop keyboards. ![]() Trackpad support is brilliantly implemented in iPadOS, with the new cursor that changes from a dot to a vertical line, and there are a number of adjustments you can make to the trackpad’s behavior, such as tap to click, in Settings > General > Trackpad. This one is both wide enough and tall enough to let you scroll, tap, and swipe all you need, but it’s narrow enough that you won’t accidentally touch it with your hand. ![]() The trackpad is smaller than the ones on laptops, but it’s not a problem I’ve always felt that the massive trackpads Apple includes on laptops just get in the way. This device goes further than the company’s previous iPad keyboard case to include a trackpad, and has a clever way of holding the iPad firmly in the air, allowing it to tilt to different angles (though the tilting is limited), as well as a USB-C passthrough to charge the iPad. The Magic Keyboard is the next step in shifting the definition of what a computer is. This new keyboard, with built-in trackpad, blurs the lines between computer and tablet, and between macOS and iOS (or, more correctly, since last year, iPadOS, with it’s unique features that set it apart from the operating system used on the iPhone and iPod touch). It has evolved from Steve Jobs’ original vision to support a stylus, and now Apple’s Magic Keyboard takes the device in ways that couldn’t have been imagined when the first iPad was released ten years ago. The iPad has always been a hybrid: it can work on a desk, with or without a stand, and with an optional keyboard, or we can hold it in our hands, touching, tapping, and swiping. We have computers on our desks, on our laps, in our pockets, and on our wrists, though we don’t use that term for all of them. The iPad has never been a “real” computer, but has always challenged the very idea of what a computer is. Apple The Magic Keyboard Turns the iPad into a New Computing Device ![]()
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