![]() That’s not to say that the Magic Keyboard doesn’t have few quirks and omissions, particularly in the smaller model for the 11-inch iPad Pro. All in all, the trackpad is super useful for keeping your hands on the keyboard while typing instead of having to reach up and tap the screen occasionally. Slide it over an app’s button controls, and it takes on the shape of the button. ![]() ![]() Move the cursor over a line of text, and it turns into a familiar I-bar shape. In apps that support the new feature, using the trackpad puts a light grey cursor on the iPad screen that helpfully changes shape depending on what it is hovering over. Apple rewrote the software on the iPad recently to support the use of mice and trackpads, and that makes the Magic Keyboard even more useful. There’s also a trackpad, a first for the iPad line. Keys depress nicely, offering a satisfying click. The typing experience is just about as good as on the new Apple laptop keyboard. And the processor options range from the same aging Intel chips available several years ago to some of Intel’s newest chips for laptops that aren’t actually much faster except for graphics in video games. The limited selection of ports (hope you like USB-C) is the same. Otherwise, the newest Apple laptop has few improvements from earlier models. Typing on a brand new 13-inch MacBook Pro, I had no problems typing accurately, feeling each keystroke register on the keyboard, and hearing a satisfying click. Apple first introduced this revision last fall on the 16-inch MacBook Pro, added it to the MacBook Air in March, and now offers it across its entire laptop line up. On the MacBook Pro, the new keyboard uses an older mechanism under each key known as a scissor switch to allow a satisfying amount of travel downwards with each press. On the iPad Pro’s Smart Keyboard Folio, the keys also had little travel and too much resistance pushing back each time you hit a key. On Apple laptops, that resulted in a brittle and unpleasant typing experience, not to mention serious reliability problems from dust or crumbs getting under the keys and rendering them completely useless. The essential problem with the old keyboards was that they were too thin to allow a satisfying amount of travel when you pressed down on each key. Typing in hell has become typing in heaven. And I’m glad to report that the keyboards on the newest Apple devices are great. Lately, that’s included an updated 13-inch MacBook Pro unveiled on May 4 and an iPad Pro with a brand new keyboard attachment, which debuted in March. This year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there are no Apple events to attend, but that hasn’t stopped the company from releasing new products.
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