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Even after playing around with it for a while, it's still just weird, you know?

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It just looks kind of wrong.

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But there's no denying it. The argument

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about whether this thing is a computer

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or not is over. With the Magic Keyboard

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and trackpad, Apple's iPad Pro is, for better or for worse, a laptop, leaving

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At first glance, you'd be forgiven for thinking that the Magic Keyboard case is

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an incremental upgrade over its predecessor, the iPad Smart Keyboard

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Folio. It's got the same polyurethane exterior and color palette, and it

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attaches to the iPad Pro with super strong magnets. But the two keyboards

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are in entirely different categories.

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For one, look at the range of motion on this puppy. It is leagues beyond the two

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static positions of the keyboard folio, improving ergonomics in almost any

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situation. Our one complaint here is that it would have been nice for it to

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be able to go a bit further back. But I understand that that's hard because the

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iPad Pro is pretty heavy for a laptop

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display. Which is why, as Riley pointed out on ShortCircuit, the Magic Keyboard

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actually weighs slightly more than the iPad Pro to prevent the whole assembly

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from being comically unable to stand upright. Another big improvement is the

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built-in USBC port. Now, it doesn't

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carry data, but it's kind of magical to be able to charge the iPad Pro through

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the keyboard smart connector without having a cord dangle from the tablet's

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own USBC port. Of course, even the most

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magic keyboard still has to be a good

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keyboard. And good news, cuz it is. It

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uses the same scissor-based switches that Apple has now returned to the

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MacBook line after replacing them with the universally loathed butterfly

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switches. And while the key caps are a bit wobblier than their laptop

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counterparts, and it would have been nice for them to include a row of

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function keys for things like volume and brightness adjustment, this magic

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keyboard gives an undeniably more laptop-like experience than the keyboard

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folio did. And if you really do want an escape key, you can just modify another

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key to serve as one, although the go home trackpad gesture mostly does the

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job. As for the typing experience, there is a distinct tactile bump with a soft

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bottom. And typing at speed makes you feel like you really are being

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productive with an iPad. A thought that renders me, a PC enthusiast and laptop

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die hard, deeply uncomfortable. Thankfully, I can feel a lot more

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comfortable if I just touch this nice soft shirt from ltstore.com.

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Ah, surprisingly though, an equal, if

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not greater contributor to this productive feeling is the trackpad. Yes,

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iPads can have trackpads now, and this one is actually kind of great. I mean,

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don't get me wrong, it is tiny. But if Microsoft can get away with using the

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same tiny trackpad on every Surface Pro ever, I think I can accept that there

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simply wasn't enough room to make this one any bigger without other

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compromises. It's got a smooth glass top layer just like MacBook trackpads and

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does not use a diving board mechanism, so it's actually clickable everywhere on

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its surface. And because it's so small yet feels so smooth, we actually ended

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up leaving trackpad inertia on in the

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settings. I know it's a sin, but seriously, guys, it's kind of neat cuz

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it lets you fling the cursor from one end of the monitor to the other with

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just a tiny finger movement. Did I just call an iPad Pro a monitor?

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What is happening right now? Okay, now we've already talked about the way that

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regular mouse support works in iPad OS, but the trackpad has a number of

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multi-finger gestures that completely change the game for using the iPad on a

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desk. Obviously, two-finger scrolling is here along with two-finger tap to right

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click. Although, that doesn't work on everything in iPad OS. In fact, nothing

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works on everything in iPad OS. It's not very cohesive. But you can also use

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two-finger swipe in browsers to go forward and back and two finger swipe

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down from the home screen to bring up Spotlight search. The big navigation

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gestures involve three-finger swipes though. Swipe left or right to switch

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apps, up to go home, and swipe up and hold to enter the multitasking menu from

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which you can two-finger swipe on any app to close it. I got to say, being

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able to zoom around the iPad's UI without lifting your ARM up or moving

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around so much to touch the screen not only makes navigation feel much less

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tedious, it actually feels kind of cool. But the story here isn't all rainbows

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and lollipops either. Making the Magic Keyboard more like a laptop conversion

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mod and less like a tablet folio means you cannot flip it all the way around

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and use the iPad Pro like a tablet with the case still attached. And the stiff

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supportive hinge and super strong magnets mean that it's impossible to

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open with one hand and actually annoyingly difficult to open even with

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two hands. Here's one. Something we found infuriating in the age of laptops

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whose lids can be lifted effortlessly with a single finger. Then there's iPad

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OS. Now, it's come a long way. I mean,

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using multiple Windows in the same app while replying to messages with slide

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over and dragging and dropping files to an external hard drive while plugged

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into an external monitor is something iPad users could only dream about a

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couple of short years ago. But the fact remains that as an operating system, it

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is still miles behind the versatility that one can find in Windows, macOS,

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and Linux. And that continues to make Apple's moves with the iPad Pro and by

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extension the Magic Keyboard so confusing to me. In our last video about

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the iPad Pro, we said that Apple had dropped the ball by turning it into a

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laptop because it seemed like they had envisioned this grand future where the

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iPad Pro existed as a different kind of professional computing device, one that

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you use with touch and a and a pencil input instead of with a mouse and

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keyboard. And then they pulled this big, hey, gotcha and released a $350

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attachment that seems to completely negate that vision. I just had no idea

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how to interpret it. Like, what what what is this thing? And then making my

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life as a reviewer even more complicated, this 12.9 in iPad Pro

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starts at $1,000

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with just $128 gigs of onboard storage.

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That means that altogether this setup is $1,400

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for a machine that in the mind of any sane laptop user is a clear downgrade

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from a MacBook or a Windows Ultrabook. But then there's this funny thing that

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doesn't seem to be how iPad users see it. We keep making these videos about

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the iPad where we express confusion and incredul at Apple's huge missteps with

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their flagship Pro tablet. And then iPad Pro users keep telling us about how each

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of these updates, iPad OS in 2019 and the Magic Keyboard this year, have made

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them love their iPads even more. They

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talk about alternative workflows where they type on their iPad at their desk,

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then pop it out of the keyboard and use it on the couch. They extol the virtues

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of apps that PC enthusiasts like me have never even heard of that let them mix

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audio and edit images and 4K videos and

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write code on their iPads. I mean, sure,

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the shortcomings that we find so frustrating mean that they actually

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cannot do the exact same things the exact same way that we do them on a

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traditional laptop, but they just don't care. It seems like that different way

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of using this separate pro category device is still

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alive and well, but rather than an eitheror, it's more of a both. And use

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the iPad Pro as a touch and pencil device. Use it as a keyboard and

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trackpad device. It works pretty well

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either way, mostly. As I alluded to

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before, iPad OS has a long way to go before the kind of uninterrupted,

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magically smooth UI experience that you get in Apple's apps extends to the whole

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ecosystem. But even with that in mind,

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after this review, I think I'll be looking at the iPad Pro's future with

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