![]() This new Smart Keyboard has to cover a screen that’s 60 percent of the surface area of the larger model, meaning that it’s much lighter and less bulky. While the reduced dimensions of the 9.7-inch iPad Pro add complications in some ways, they offer benefits in others. In fact, I’m typing this on the keyboard right now, at full speed. But more than that, I discovered that if I kept some of my fingers resting on the keyboard, so I could always remain oriented, I was able to touch type at a high rate of speed without ever looking at the keyboard itself. The fabric keys don’t require as much force to depress as mechanical keys. I’m a pretty tough critic when it comes to keyboards, and I actually found typing on the smaller Smart Keyboard to be surprisingly good. If you’re someone who has mapped the location of every single key on a normal-sized keyboard onto your brain, you may struggle. If you’re someone who hunts and pecks, you’re not going to care. Whether this is a dealbreaker really depends on what kind of a typist you are. Keys are reduced in size and offset by about 17.5mm, as opposed to 19mm on the 12.9-inch keyboard. All of that work isn’t enough to prevent the entire keyboard layout from shrinking, however. In addition to losing the breathing room along the left and right edges that the larger keyboard offered, all the non-alphanumeric keys have been squashed to smaller widths. The new, smaller model is only 9.4 inches wide, and that 2.6 inches of lost space does take a toll.Īpple has done a lot to mitigate that reduction in size. The larger Smart Keyboard is 12 inches wide, enough space for a full-sized set of keys. Since the new-model Smart Keyboard must double as a cover for the 9.7-inch iPad Pro, it’s necessarily scaled down from its 12.9-inch equivalent. After all, what’s an iPad Pro if it doesn’t have its own keyboard cover? ![]() At last, there’s a third product for the connector-the $149 Apple Smart Keyboard for the new 9.7-inch iPad Pro. So far, the first two Smart Connector products- Apple’s Smart Keyboard and the Logitech Create keyboard-have been the only Smart Connector products on the market. One of the banner features of the iPad Pro line is the Smart Connector, three metal dots that allow the two-way transfer of power and data between an iPad Pro and an accessory. Review: Smart Keyboard for 9.7-inch iPad Pro
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