hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech
and this is the iPad magic keyboard I've
been looking forward to this since they
announced the 12.9-inch and
new 11 inch iPad pro and this starts at
$2.99 and if you have the larger iPad
it's 349 making it the most expensive
keyboard I've ever bought and so this is
just a simple packaging like this let's
go ahead and open it up take the wrapper
off and let's take the cover off now my
iPad pro is my most used device other
than what I'm editing video so this is
one of my favorite devices so we'll see
how it is to use this keyboard so
there's the top let's move that and take
the keyboard out there's nothing inside
the box let's take the wrapper off and
we'll set that stuff aside now let's go
ahead and open this up and there's a
little pamphlet inside we'll close it
just for a moment and see what we've got
here
so it says designed by Apple in
California basically everything you
would expect let's see what we've got
inside so there's another pamphlet in
here there we go so it's got the magic
keyboard or iPad magic keyboard just a
little instruction on how it works then
we've got our other information such as
warranty card and things like that
no Apple stickers now the outside
material of the case is the exact same
material that we have on the smart
keyboard cover that I was using
previously and they look very similar we
we have a small Apple logo cut out here
and it's horizontal this time if you can
see that and you've got the same sort of
keyboard layout and cut out on the back
so they look very similar but the
keyboards are very different so if we
open up this one the hinge only opens to
this point and then sort of locks into
place so you've got that much movement
and then you can tilt this back a little
bit and then it connects to the iPad
with these pogo pins now aside from the
keyboard it actually has a charging
pass-through here as well you can't use
it for things like USB C drives or
anything like that hard drives but you
can use it to charge the iPad so it
frees up not only the port but also
allows you to charge it and use the port
at the same time so it's really nice to
have options of both now it's completely
compatible with the third generation
iPad pro as well so just like the smart
Keyboard case it works with the third
generation iPad pro and so I have the
third generation or 2018 iPad pro here
you can just snap it into place and
you'll see you have the cutout is a
little strange around the camera but
otherwise it's the exact same thing it
fits without a problem so it will work
on the older generation as well so if
you want to pick up this case you can do
that now before we take a closer look at
the trackpad and the keyboard and
everything else I want to talk about the
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below now to hold the ipad pro on to the
smart Keyboard it uses a bunch of
magnets and I have some magnet paper
here to show you exactly where those
magnets are and if I lay the magnet
paper over here you can see there's a
ton of magnets on the left and then if
we move all the way over there's some
more magnets on the right this helps
adhere the case itself to the iPad and
make it seem like it's floating so you
have all of these magnets arranged in a
specific pattern to match up with the
magnets that are on the iPad itself so
that part's really nice now the smart
Keyboard feels very well built
you'll see it only opens up so far so
it'll
bend up to this point and stops and
then allows you to adjust the top for
your viewing angles so it's kind of
interesting it's a little bit different
but does give that floating look to it
and we'll take a closer look at that in
a moment the other thing I noticed is
it's fairly heavy and very rigid it
doesn't seem like it has any flex to it
at all and I assume that's because Apple
probably doesn't want the whole case
tipping over when you have the iPad on
top in fact it probably has some metal
in the bottom to keep it more rigid and
also give it a little bit of extra
weight in fact it weighs more than an
iPad pro at 1.56 or
710 grams so combined with the iPad pro
it's actually fairly heavy around three
pounds or thirteen hundred and 62 grams
so combined it's got a decent weight to
it and to give you an idea of weight
that is about what a macbook pro 13 inch
weighs so the macbook pro is a little
bit heavier at 13 hundred and 69 grams
or 3.02 pounds but in general they're
very close and as far as thickness is
concerned the iPad is actually a little
bit thicker than the iPad than the
MacBook Pro so if I remove the Apple
pencil you can see that the thickness is
just a little bit thicker than a macbook
pro now that may not be a big deal for
some people but it just gives you an
idea of its actual thickness now the
keyboard on this is a scissor switch
keyboard which means it's basically like
the new iPad pro keyboard and it's
basically like the old magic keyboard so
it's got a nice travel to it the travel
to the keyboard is fairly substantial it
feels much better than we had on the
smart Keyboard so here's the smart
Keyboard that's got this cloth covering
and the keys just feel mushy so in
comparison they feel mushy so with the
smart keyboard and the magic keyboard
there's a very big difference between
the keys so let me type hi how are you
today so you can hear what they sound
like because they're much closer to what
you get with a butterfly keyboard so
we'll type hi
so you can hear what those sound like
let me switch over to the magic keyboard
and we'll type the same thing so so you
get the idea I type a little bit
different than most people but let me
type it one more time hi and so if
you're a touch typist this is going to
feel much better compared to any of the
butterfly keyboards or any others that
I've tried for iPads unless it's maybe a
Logitech so this should work well for
you if I could spell properly now along
with that of course we've got the
trackpad as well before we talk about
that this keyboard is actually backlit
and it's powered off of this itself off
of the iPad now this is a great thing -
one little thing that's going to drive
me nuts and that's there's no function
keys along the top so in order to
actually turn the brightness down on the
keyboard of the iPad itself you actually
have to go into settings to do that so
if you go into settings if you'll see I
was already there trying to figure out
where it is because you have to go to
general then you have to go to keyboard
then you go to hardware keyboards then
you can turn the brightness down on the
keys so if we turn the screen brightness
down let me turn the lights off in here
so you can see what it looks like you
can see that the keyboard is lit up now
I can turn that down it will auto adjust
itself so I can turn that up or down or
off all the way and if I turn the screen
back on turn the lights back on the
keyboard just adjusted itself to full
brightness so it will auto adjust which
is nice but again you have to go into
settings to change that hopefully Apple
actually updates this in the future and
makes it something easy maybe in the
control center now I think the smart
keyboard looks great my one major
concern about it is that you have to
reach up here to turn the volume up and
down or go into your settings for the
brightness so that's one thing that I
don't really think it makes much sense I
don't know why they couldn't have just
put those buttons at the top that would
have been much easier for most people
and I think most people would appreciate
that in fact you do have that same
functionality with the new Logitech
keyboard that I reviewed the other day
and
if I put this over here and so with the
combo touch keyboard you have all of
your function buttons at the top so if
you want to turn your volume up and down
or turn your brightness or your keyboard
brightness you've got all those function
keys which I really wish Apple would
have put on the magic keyboard that's so
far my only complain about it now as far
as the trackpad is concerned this is
actually clickable in any area you press
so if I press at the top here you can
click on things and you can use all the
functionality that you would expect from
the trackpad or keyboard and mouse on
this iPad so if you've been using a
mouse or trackpad with it you'll get the
same functionality and I just outlined
the cursor and blue with one of the
settings so you could see it a little
bit more easily so if I scroll over
these maybe scroll over the camera use a
two-finger click we've got the quick
actions or a right-click and you can go
to things like take a selfie it turns on
there we go maybe three fingers swipe up
we go back we swipe over with three
fingers we go back to the same app swipe
up again and we're back out of the app
so you've got all the functionality that
you expect with a trackpad the trackpad
feels very responsive just like apples
typical trackpads do and I do like that
it physically clicks anywhere you press
it so that part's really nice the
keyboard feels very full-sized I don't
really have any issues with it and I
like that it's backlit so that part's
really nice now the case also acts as a
smart cover so when you close it it
shuts it off open it back up it will
turn back on now the magnets hold it
pretty securely so if you were to shake
it like this it's not going to just pop
off of the case and especially when it's
closed it won't just fall out now I
think I'm going to enjoy using the iPad
with the smart Keyboard
where you can just take it off of the
stand with you and walk away leave this
on the desktop use the iPad maybe draw a
little bit and that would be really nice
and then come back to your desk leave it
here to charge and it would sort of be
like a desktop or something along those
lines now it's kind of an interesting
angle some people may not like it it
only goes back so far and then tilts
down like this so that may be better if
it's laying on your chest when you're in
bed or something like that I'm not sure
but you can't really flip it around
because the angle only opens this far so
that's something that is kind of odd but
I guess they want you to use the iPad by
its
self and hold it instead of having a
little kickstand on it something like
that now this makes it feel much more
like a computer and I think I could use
it as a full-time computer since I do
use it most of the time anyway with the
exception of editing video so I'm really
just looking forward to a Final Cut Pro
maybe a Logic Pro for some other people
in some more dedicated Pro apps for this
pro desktop it's as much as a MacBook
Pro or a MacBook Air anyway or could be
as much as a MacBook Pro depending on
which model you get but let me know your
thoughts about this in the comments
below now I think it's a great addition
but it's a very expensive keyboard so
we'll have to see how it is over the
next few days and see what I think about
it but let me know if there's anything
specifically that you haven't heard that
you'd like to hear about it in the
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