So, after suffering a few years with a flaky iPad Air 2, my lovely wife convinced me that it was OK to treat myserlf last week, and I got myself a 9.7" iPad Pro with the Smart Keyboard.
To be honest, I’ve been super unhappy with Apple keyboards of late. They seem to think that everything should be a laptop keyboard - super - compact layout and a super squishy typing feel.
Readers of this blog will know that I love mechanical keyboards. Traditionally I go for the super clicky Cherry MX Brown switches.
However, my next door neighbor at work very politely informed me that I was driving him stark raving bug house with the machine gun like sound of my typing.
I’ve recently been very underwhelmed with the keyboards Apple ships with their computers. They’re trying to make them all feel like laptop keyboards, which is an idea I
rather disapprove of.
In particular the recent Apple Keyboard
has such shallow key travel it’s very easy to fall into the bad habit of pounding the keys, and the overall layout feels squished