In my case it can’t go more than about 165º on a flat surface because of the Hand-e-Holder on the back of the iPad. I weighed the iPad and the Brydge and these were the results (give or take a gram):Īlthough the Brydge is 50g lighter than the iPad, the combo never tips backwards at angles approaching 180º, although of course it noticeably wants to if you touch the screen. There is also an AppleInsider video comparing the Brydge and the Apple Magic Keyboard. More on that in this video from AppleInsider, I should’t repeat that here. The box is perfect BTW.Īnd so is the build quality of the keyboard itself, top notch all the way. Turned out the actual Brydge box fitted diagonally in there -). When I saw the carton packaging at delivery, I knew that is was a bit smaller than the iPad, so that was weird.
#TRACKPAD MAGIC KEYBOARD NOT WORKING PRO#
I finally got my hands on the Brydge Pro+ keyboard for my iPad Pro 12,9" (delivery took a bit longer than expected). At their widest viewing angles, the Magic Keyboard feels noticeably more open than the Smart Keyboard, and the MacBook Air feels noticeably more open than the Magic Keyboard. (The Smart Keyboard’s more upright slot = 110 degrees.) 5 degrees doesn’t sound like much, but in practice it is quite noticeable. At 130 degrees the iPad Magic Keyboard is not tippy at all if it opened even a little further, it would be.įor comparison, a new MacBook Air opens to about 135 degrees, and an iPad with Smart Keyboard in the more open of its two positions opens only to 125 degrees. It feels like it should open at least a little bit more, but that’s wishful thinking. Using a simple protractor (hooray for having a high-schooler in the house), fully open, it appears to be exactly 130 degrees. John Gruber wrote about this on Daring Fireball:Īpple advertises the iPad Magic Keyboard as supporting viewing angles from 90 to 130 degrees. Why on Earth would Apple be un-pro, incomplete about the 90-130° angle limit, it is frustrating to not be able to view at angles beyond 130° for certain case uses.
Maybe there is a legal difference in keyboards that are being sold as an integral part of the computer set and those sold separately like an iPad keyboard, allowing them to get away with US-only layout for the latter. This resulted in having to make hundreds of slightly different keyboards, but that is what they do today. The country specific keyboards used to be a gripe at Apple back in the day when they discovered that in most countries by law manufacturers of computers had to conform to country standards. Or maybe they didn’t bother using Dutch photo material here? That would seem un-Apple to me though. As I don’t do legalese or documentation formatting I rarely use §.įrom the photo material on the Dutch Apple Store I am led to conclude that Apple’s iPad keyboards are US only in layout, so no § there too. The only specific Dutch key (found nowhere else) is in the upper left corner of the MBP keyboard.
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