Apple ipad 2 dock keyboard

300 R

The keyboard is amazingly heavy; itâ€™s carved from a single block of aluminum and seems to weigh about five pounds. It holds the iPad firmly, and is just barely heavy enough to stay put when you pull the iPad out. It would be awkward for carrying around. If you want a portable option, a wireless bluetooth keyboard is your best option to take a keyboard with you on the road.

The keyboard itself is basically Appleâ€™s keyboard with a few extra buttons where the function keys would be:

Home
Search
Dim
Bright
Photos
Onscreen keyboard
A blank key that does nothing (!)
Rewind
Play/Pause
Forward
Mute
Volume Down
Volume Up
Lock

The iconography is quite obvious. Otherwise itâ€™s a typical Mac keyboard, option key and all. One difference is that Alt-delete is not interpreted as backspaceâ€“this is a key I miss. Might be a good use for that blank key if the right set were shifted left so it could be placed above delete. The key feel is superb, just like a Mac keyboard, and I can type on it as fast as any keyboard Iâ€™ve ever used. I really wish there was an additional dock connector on the long bottom axis so the iPad could be used in landscape mode. I check my email in landscape mode, and I tend to do all of my â€œproducingâ€ work in that mode. I wrote this review in Pages with the keyboard, and Iâ€™m quite impressed that the iPad and this keyboard could actually replace a desktop for light.

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