![]() ![]() Likewise, as someone who is extensively wrapped up in the Googleverse, most Google apps on the iPad are kind of a mess in terms of operability, with features that are either degraded from their Android/Windows equivalents, or with those features missing entirely. Be that as it may, there’s a whole lot here that is clunky and/or fuzzy as fuck, from app switching and resizing to multi-finger gestures on the Magic Keyboard trackpad. Some of that is me coming over from primarily Windows, to be sure, and another part of it is Apple not wanting the iPad to entirely cannibalize its Mac computer sales. And yes, to be clear, I am taking a normal amount of showers and hand washing. I have never had a piece of computing equipment get this smudgy, this fast. Apple touts the iPad screen as being “oleophobic,” and fingerprint resistant, but I am here to tell you that this is a contemptible lie. You can see it in the photo above, especially on the trackpad. I don’t think of myself as a particularly oily character, but after a day of use, both the iPad and the keyboard were smudgy as fuck. Both the Magic Keyboard and the iPad Pro are absolute smudge monsters. I know many people recoil in horror at the idea of taking pictures with a tablet, but, look, if that’s the piece of computing you’re using at the moment, why would you switch just because the thing looks slightly awkward? It’s fine. The camera is not overladen with megapixels - both the front and rear-facing cameras are 12MP - but the pictures are sharp, colorful and pretty. ![]() For most non-party situations, it’s plenty loud. I’m not expecting earth-shattering bass out of a tablet, and I didn’t get it, but otherwise, it’s perfectly solid. The speakers are nice and loud and clear. ![]() It’s not the best lap experience I’ve ever had from a computer? But it’s not the worst, either. I also assumed that I wouldn’t actually be able to put the thing in my lap to work on, and that it would just flop about and otherwise be unwieldly, but, nope - I had no problem propping it up on my legs and going to town. I didn’t really notice the lack of a function key row, and while I understand other people find the keyboard a little cramped, I apparently have tiny hands and never experienced that problem myself. ![]() The Magic Keyboard: I’ve never used one before and they always looked a little flimsy to me, but in the real world, the build is solid and both the keyboard and trackpad, while not the best I’ve ever used in my life, were still more than sufficient. Everything looks great on this screen, and its 4:3 dimension means there is a whole lot of real estate to use.ģ. I believe the screen refreshes at 120Hz, and the smooth scrolling is absolutely a feature you notice. It’s bright, the colors are lovely and it’s tack-sharp in terms of resolution. I don’t think I’ll be making this iPad choke anytime soon.Ģ. I’ve also run Logic Pro for iPad on the thing and similarly experienced no problems there, and it’s a far more intensive program. Admittedly what I was mostly doing was email, social media and some light productivity and YouTube watching if the M2 had gagged on any of that, something would have been terribly wrong. I didn’t experience a single hiccup or slowdown running anything on it. It’s got an M2 chip, 16GB RAM and a 2TB SSD, which basically meant there was nothing short of a real-world tornado simulation that was going to faze it. I went on vacation with Krissy for the last several days (to celebrate our anniversary), and rather than to take either my Pixelbook or my Dell XPS 13 with me, I took my new M2 iPad Pro with its Magic Keyboard to see if it was a suitable laptop replacement for a short trip. ![]()
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