Dislikes outweigh likes right now....
-Not a fan of folio keyboard. You flip it back to use it as a tablet and your hand is pressing all these buttons. Not a deal breaker but def weird relative to the grippy suede of the old keyboard cover. Also, you can’t put a back on this like you could with old keyboard. So no real way around this unless you just go naked.
-Using it naked, or in landscape tablet mode at all, and you’ll almost certainly find Face ID totally blocked as your palm/hand is covering the camera. Face ID will tell you this, but it basically means unless you are natively left handed (and thus holding it in your right hand) you’ll have to flip this thing around every time you use it in tablet mode. And if you flip this around, the Apple Pencil is now on the bottom if attached, meaning it’s almost certainly going to have to come off.
-Charger loses the Apple aesthetics and now it’s just a big iPhone brick
-The magnet for the pencil is pretty weak. It’s ended up on the floor multiple times already.
-This is a chunky slap of metal. Sort of like holding a Surface tablet now (which I also have). No curved baby’s bottom. Just all edges and flat metal now.
Likes.....
-Noticeably faster
-Noticeably better battery performance, but that may not be fair as my 2017 iPad Pro is 18 months old
-Screen just a tad bit warmer IMO but this is obviously subjective
-I’m kind of digging the USB-C design. I’ve connected several USB-C devices I had purchased for my MacBook and thus far everything appears to be working the same. IOS is pretty stupid about what it can/can’t do with some of the stuff I’ve connected to it, but they do work and gives me a few fewer things to dump into my gadget bag in my briefcase.
-More specific to the Pencil, YAY TO REMOVAL OF THAT BRITTLE STUPID PLASTIC CAP! I broke TWO of those almost within a few days of getting my first Pencil. The gestures on this one are kind of nifty also, but again...more of a Pencil like than an iPad Like.
-Not a fan of folio keyboard. You flip it back to use it as a tablet and your hand is pressing all these buttons. Not a deal breaker but def weird relative to the grippy suede of the old keyboard cover. Also, you can’t put a back on this like you could with old keyboard. So no real way around this unless you just go naked.
-Using it naked, or in landscape tablet mode at all, and you’ll almost certainly find Face ID totally blocked as your palm/hand is covering the camera. Face ID will tell you this, but it basically means unless you are natively left handed (and thus holding it in your right hand) you’ll have to flip this thing around every time you use it in tablet mode. And if you flip this around, the Apple Pencil is now on the bottom if attached, meaning it’s almost certainly going to have to come off.
-Charger loses the Apple aesthetics and now it’s just a big iPhone brick
-The magnet for the pencil is pretty weak. It’s ended up on the floor multiple times already.
-This is a chunky slap of metal. Sort of like holding a Surface tablet now (which I also have). No curved baby’s bottom. Just all edges and flat metal now.
Likes.....
-Noticeably faster
-Noticeably better battery performance, but that may not be fair as my 2017 iPad Pro is 18 months old
-Screen just a tad bit warmer IMO but this is obviously subjective
-I’m kind of digging the USB-C design. I’ve connected several USB-C devices I had purchased for my MacBook and thus far everything appears to be working the same. IOS is pretty stupid about what it can/can’t do with some of the stuff I’ve connected to it, but they do work and gives me a few fewer things to dump into my gadget bag in my briefcase.
-More specific to the Pencil, YAY TO REMOVAL OF THAT BRITTLE STUPID PLASTIC CAP! I broke TWO of those almost within a few days of getting my first Pencil. The gestures on this one are kind of nifty also, but again...more of a Pencil like than an iPad Like.
