so iPad you think you're a computer huh
Big Talk I guess we'll find out whether
you are or you aren't Apple has been trying to make the iPad
into a computer for a long time now and that's not you know this is how I
started the actual iPad ShortCircuit as well it is a computer we all know it's a
computer guys but now Apple has you know
released the magic keyboard attachment with not only the magic keyboard with
the scissor based switches that they had which was good and then switched out
with a worse one the butterfly keyboard it also has a trackpad on an iPad how
many pads can we handle the answer is two and that's why we're here today
we got the iPad magic keyboard and we're gonna see if once you put it on the
twelve point nine inch iPad or you put the a twelve point nine inch iPad pro
onto this one does that a computer make off it comes that's pretty heavy that's
a that feels like half of a half of a laptop sure enough let's unwrap this
sucker okay I'm excited because I have
seen a lot about this in the past few weeks
we got the you know the iPad pro 2020
edition and I've already done a whole review on that on LTT and we also did
ShortCircuit on it and now we have the thing that could make it a laptop does
it oh oh that's some resistance like I expected this to be a folio case like
like on the old like on the old folio cases they're very loose you know when
you open it up it's kind of floppy this is like immediately I'm getting some
resistance oh and then it stops and then
it keeps going this is really weird
designed by Apple in California tell me
about yourself iPad open magic keyboard and fold back to attach iPad adjust your
viewing angle is needed okay ah we'll see how good that is charge iPad using
the u.s. PC port so that's one of the interesting things about this it adds an
extra USB-C port not on that side but on that side right there also apologise to
anyone seeing the top down camera now my hands look grody from over
washing but you know we're on the same boat with that hopefully that one didn't
that one is it wasn't a success should I
bother trying this out without the iPad on it no on the iPad goes boom that is
magical okay we got a bit of like oh
that actually goes farther back then I thought it would pretty impressive
it looks like it's floating it's like levitation Wingardium Leviosa you know
what I'm talking about can you use it on your lap that's a great question Andy
yes you can I guess so if you can use it
on your lap it's a laptop but look at this that's you sitting on my lap uh-huh you
know what right off the bat I want to see how easy it is if I was like oh I'm
using I am using my tablet dooby doo doo doo doo and then oh gotta go gotta bring
my keyboard failed the first test oh
gotta go boom okay that was a lot better
maybe it's just lack of practice okay so that's an issue right away how do I it's
not usually with you know with those with these modern laptops there's kind
of an easier way to open it up you put
it down and you want to lift up the screen kind of like squit you got to
squeeze your fingers in there so when you put it down
open it up
it's pretty impressive how like you know when you do open it up kind of just like
flips into place you'd think that it it looks fragile when I first saw the
launch videos for these and then it's kind of sizzle reels it looks like it
looked kind of fragile but it does feel very sturdy let's find out how much it
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do they weigh that's what I was saying let's find out oh jeez
okay in kilograms okay point 608 and
this thing 0.656 this is actually
heavier than the iPad so you get yourself a computer and then you get
yourself a keyboard that weighs more now
I understand why they did that though it's because when you sit the iPad on it
it has to do stay upright if the iPad weighed more than the keyboard it would
just kind of tip over which you know would make things more interesting but
no one wants that okay so before you
know you know what enough of that let me talk about the keyboard let's find out
I'll login let's bring up a note oh wait
I haven't oh I have a mouse now I completely forgot I was gonna start
using the iPad with my finger now I already kind of talked about this
when I did the full ipad review but I think using it with a trackpad is a
whole different experience you move the mouse around and there's like noticeable
drift maybe there maybe there's a bit more of that using the iPad ooh that
feels kind of nice I'm not gonna lie that's a keyboard crazy how we're using
this iPad as if it's a computer and not
an iPad oh I feel like the travel is
even less than I remember on similar
anja keyboards but maybe that's just my you know rose-colored glasses
I'm writing a writing a little soliloquy
here okay so to compare that I'm gonna bring up the other regular jeez Louise
iPad folio so this is kind of what Apple
was going with last generation was just this kind of like flippy floppy Wibbly
keyboard folio that's nothing special you know it was cool it protected your
your iPad it gave you a keyboard and you know in case you were like on the go and
you needed to like answer some emails or something and needed to type out something there's two positions to put
the screen in and even when they're in there it's like pretty wobbly but this
is what we were dealing with before and this is obviously a huge upgrade
we've gone from a tablet with a dinky little keyboard attachment to something
that looks a lot like an actual laptop
do we have to call it a laptop now tap
top to pad top okay so over here hello
friend this is an iPad and see how okay
maybe I'm crazy but I almost like this keyboard more am I crazy why do I like
that better it's awesome I might I might
have just been crazy for a second you know you know that happens sometimes you can just like go insane for like 10
seconds okay no never mind never mind all right but but I think all that says
is that the keyboard that they initially put in this thing and I think I you said
when I reviewed it that this was a very impressive keyboard but this is a real
keyboard this is like really good for a tiny keyboard and this is like a magic
keyboard the trackpad is very small as
you can see it's almost like it's the the surface pro trackpads
it looks just like that but it feels like an apple trackpad like this is
smooth and I know I complained about the the drifting but it almost like works
well with this am I just being swayed by the Apple like
polish and to compare it to like a real laptop in
order to kind of take it down a notch an LG gram 17 or as I like to call it
the gam because the art fell off it's a
17 inch so obviously it looks huge compared to the 12 point 9 inch but like
you know the twelve point nine inch iPad is around the same size as like a 13
inch you know laptop so it's maybe not a
super fair comparison but what I really wanted to compare was its versatility
one of the great things about light laptops is there are like a full
computer and you sit him down you can lift the lid with one hand and you got
you know something going on there that's what you expect big nice big trackpad
over here now I put it down as if I'm
gonna work somewhere I have to you have to get your fingernails in there so it's
a little annoying and I'm not seeing the same kind of like versatility I mean
it's nice it goes back to it enough of an angle yeah this isn't bad alright
you don't really seal the deal for the
iPad pro as a laptop is if they because
it has keyboard and like full Mouse support now if they put some games on
here that you could play with mouse and keyboard that would be something you
know what I just noticed this keyboard is missing a row of stuff so like we got
we've got the arrow keys we got all this normal stuff we get up to the number row
and then there's no function room and there's no escape button how am I gonna
escape from things no I know there's probably there's probably a ton of
shortcuts oh that's what I heard there were shortcuts somewhere if I there must
be something that works hello
screw it I hate iPads command Oh
oh thank you oh you're you're a Mac user on candy yeah what do you what do you
want to see man W oh close the tab it
did what are other regular Mac things command shift for what does that do oh
there's no escape key that would that is a situation where I'd like to have an
escape key just to be like get out get me out of here it's a bit frustrating
that Apple kind of went this direction again because it looked like they were
using the iPad to kind of go in this bold new direction of like hey you know you got desktop
computers you got laptops and now we want to be able to have this new
category tablets that are actual computers that you can use for work not
just entertainment machines why would I get this over a macbook pro who is
buying this and why because this is the the twelve point nine inch compatible
version of the magic keyboard case is three hundred fifty bucks
u.s. and the the 11 inch one is a three hundred dollars so you're adding that on
to the iPad pro which is already you know if you're getting one that you can
use as your main computer it's around a thousand dollars for like a good
configuration on the iPad pro plus a $350 keyboard why would you buy this
instead of a MacBook or a capable
Windows laptop I don't know it's an you know it's it's like one of
Apple's flagship things so I can understand it being that expensive I
don't think it's justified to make it that expensive but it makes sense for Apple to do that anyways I'm excited to
do the full review for this and pretty impressed with the overall design and
manufacture of it I didn't really play around with a you extra USB-C port but
we'll get more into that in the full review for now thanks for watching and
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