APPLE SMART FOLIO IPAD PRO PRO
It’s the iPad Pro-as-Surface Pro dream, a tiny laptop that significantly lightens my working load. I only use my new MacBook Pro when I absolutely must, for example when I need to enter this text into Mashable’s secure content management system. No one was more surprised than me when I fell for the Smart Keyboard Folio (opens in a new tab), and fell hard - to the point where my iPad Pro is now my main writing device away from my desk. On a whim I decided to buy the Smart Keyboard Folio, figuring I’d probably return it in a day or so, just like all those prior Folios. I’d planned on a new Smart Cover too, but none of the colors appealed. I bought the 11-inch iPad Pro, rejecting the larger 12.6-inch version (still too much bulk for me, even with a slimmer bezel), and one of the new magnetically charging Pencils (definitely superior to the Pencil 1.0). Then fate forced my hand: my iPad Pro was stolen alongside my late, lamented Rose Gold MacBook. I was loath to get rid of that, and to trade TouchID for FaceID, so I decided against an upgrade. Hitting the wrong key was just a matter of time.Īt the time, my setup consisted of a 2017 10.5 inch iPad Pro with a Smart Cover and a $10 transparent gel case that held the always-easy-to-lose Apple Pencil.
APPLE SMART FOLIO IPAD PRO FULL
Secondly, their keys never quite felt right, mostly through no fault of their own: squeezing a full keyboard into the 10-inch space afforded by most tablets is one of the greatest design challenges of our time. Firstly they were unnecessarily bulky, requiring you to either tuck the whole iPad inside a leather compartment, or squeeze it into a plastic sleeve, or, in the case of the Brydge, put your precious tablet inside folding metal clamps. I’d tested dozens of third-party iPad keyboard cases since 2010. I had no need to protect the back of my iPad (c'mon, Apple, it’s pretty durable) so I dismissed the option out of hand.
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But Apple’s version seemed more like a full-on keyboard case, which often name themselves Folios. I’d long been jealous of Microsoft Surface users, who used keyboard covers to turn their tablets into tiny ultraportable laptops.
And yes, I was forever hunting for the best not-on-screen keyboard solution for my iPads. Sure, I’d been a huge iPad fan, and a sucker for the latest model, ever since nabbing the first model the day it launched in 2010. Little did I know it would become my constant companion, one of the most loved and most essential Apple products I’d ever bought. When Apple unveiled its Smart Keyboard Folio (opens in a new tab) alongside its latest and priciest iPad Pro models in late 2018, the peripheral barely registered on my radar. Essentials Week spotlights unexpected items that make our daily lives just a little bit better.
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