Well friends my Apple Smart Keyboard arrived a day early at Best Buy. So I cancelled my Apple order. Weird that Best Buy beat my Apple order. It still was crazy at BB with many shoppers.
So far I like the keyboard a lot. It does seem to take a little more effort to type on than my 12" rMB (which I passed onto to my kid). Maybe it just seems like that since I'm balancing it on my lap. I'm getting a little rocking balanced on a crooked, crossed leg. The keyboard does seem "crisp", not mushy. I'm grateful for that. Certainly not as easy to balance at the rMB was, but acceptable. I am going to have to get used to no track pad, but will adapt.
When I picked up the box at Best Buy I thought OMG this feel heavy. Well once out of the box and attatched I'm feeling it is fine. Deducting the weight of the Apple cover for the keyboard cover makes it seem like not a big deal.
I also like how the Smart Keyboard can fold, in a triangle, like the plain old cover that gets the keyboard out of the way. That seems to work as well as the Smart Cover, maybe with a little less angle. All in all the Apple keyboard beats the on screen keyboard, and all folded up it does not add a lot of weight or thickness.