Its a nice keyboard but $299 is still ridiculous
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Apple Announces Redesigned Magic Keyboard for New iPad Pro Starting at $299
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Don’t buy if you find it offensive.
My guess, Apple doesn't care about Canada's inflation. 🤔
This is something I do not understand myself. It is a less capable device than the M4 Macbook Air will be so why is it more expensive? Might be the screen that makes the price so high... Who knows if that is really worth it. I will have to reserve judgement until I see it in person.
Hardly. A laptop will have more varied and more powerful software. All versions of the various creative software I use is crippled on the iPad. Infuriatingly so at times with basic functionality missing and general lack of tool parity. Heck even the basic calculator was missing until very recently and the lack of an iPad app for Whatsapp is just baffling. But yes it is good for literally drawing on, but creatives who draw have used tablets and pens on screens since before the iPad existed.
I'm beginning to think my replacement iPad will be a far more usable MacBook Air. Which if it had a touch screen that folded back on itself, would make the iPad Pro completely redundant. Heck, I just checked and for same price [£2,899] I could buy a pretty highly high specced MBP. Madness.
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Removing my MacBook’s screen voids its warranty.
Same, couldn't find it anywhere. Are there any surprises inside? Would explain why such a short window between this event and WWDC.
IPad Air is the sweet spot now. Apple’s pencil lineup now makes sense (Apple Pencil Pro for the new Air and Pro, Apple Pencil USB-C for all current models. The Pencils 1 and 2 stay around only for users of iPads no longer offered for sale as new). Too bad the new Magic Keyboard is only for the new Pro. Apple still has too many keyboard options.
This is the most frustrated I think I’ve been with Apple, maybe ever.
The whole thing with Apple is supposed to be that you buy into the ecosystem, so that you have ultimate compatibility, but then they keep artificially making products that aren’t even a year old obsolete and unable to use new accessories. This isn’t new, but this is by far the most egregious.
Seeing this case not being listed as compatible with the m2 iPad pros made me frustrated. When the Magic Keyboard first came out, it was compatible with the last one, even if the fit wasn’t perfect.
The pro pencil being limited to the new air and pro is outright outrageous. I have an iPad specifically because I love to draw. I do design for work and wish I could use proper cad (or even better revit, but that’s not even on the Mac). I just bought a new iPad last year because I finally wanted to take advantage of Apple silicon. Why the hell am I buying a new Apple product when literally a year later they are gonna stop making accessories that are compatible with it, just to force people to buy new products? It’s totally arbitrary, and I’m sure someone will say, “oh but it has this new tech that Apple couldn’t make it compatible with older models”… ********. There is no world where that is true. Not for the freakin pencil… I’m hoping it’s just poor language on the Apple Store app, because otherwise…
I don’t know how to justify buying into this system anymore. A 130$ accessory is bad enough, but making people who want to take advantage of it drop another $1000 is highway robbery. If they don’t announce full compatibility with MacOS apps at wwdc or something major to bring it in line with an actual productive device (which I’m sure if they do will be limited to M4) I might be done with iPad.
Except without Face ID and ProMotion. You’d be better off with an on sale M1 or M2 iPad Pro.
True. I have no need for fast FP16 processing and consider it a joke so the ML side of the chip is mostly dead-weight to me. I need a strong CPU and GPU for what I do so macOS is ideal for me.
I'm blown away that anyone finds the price "acceptable"
Some folks are over acclimated to just getting bilked by Apple
Wow, you're right. For a second I though that maybe they discountinued some, but NO! All 4 pencils are still on sale, lol 😂
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Why compare an Air to a Pro? Compare the MacBook Air to the iPad Air.
But I am livid this doesn’t work with the new Air. WHY have two keyboards the same price for different models. Insane.
MBA has neither at sustained loads. My iPad Pro runs ML models better than MBA. YMMV. Now add M4, M3 MBA is just a toy.
Best of luck to the Apple Geniuses at the store, they will be dealing with a lot of confused customers.
It really undercuts the rationale used to justify their higher prices
They continually just absolutely screw even their highest paying customers
It's amazing to me how tolerant some folks are of this whole "scheme"