Apple magic keyboard with numeric keypad reviews

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The only way to divorce the two is to go into the MacвЂ™s settings and вЂњForgetвЂќ the keyboard, and thatвЂ™s impossible if youвЂ™ve stuffed it in your bag for use with your iPad or iPhone over a long trip. AppleвЂ™s own Magic Keyboards donвЂ™t allow you to pair with multiple devices in fact, they resist all attempts to pair with an iPhone while they remain wedded to their parent Macs. IвЂ™d forgotten how liberating this can be. With this keyboard, the means of input never changes.

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Not everyone needs this feature, but I find itвЂ™s particularly well suited to my screwball workflow: Sometimes IвЂ™ll start a draft on my iPhone with a Bluetooth keyboard (where IвЂ™m less likely to get distracted with nitpicking each sentence in the drafting process) and then IвЂ™ll move over to the Mac to edit.

The other big reason to buy SatechiвЂ™s keyboard over AppleвЂ™s is that it allows you to connect up to three different Bluetooth devices.

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It comes with the full range of shortcuts youвЂ™d expect from an Apple keyboard. IвЂ™d never call this one of the best Bluetooth keyboards IвЂ™ve ever typed on, but itвЂ™s a significant enough improvement over AppleвЂ™s keyboard that I increasingly found myself reaching for it when diving into long writing sessions.

ThereвЂ™s also a playfulness to the keysвЂ™ rounded corners that I miss in AppleвЂ™s own work.

The keys arenвЂ™t backlit, but I find I like the way Satechi carved a barely perceptible cup for each fingertip into the crown of each key. ThereвЂ™s just enough resistance to capture that feeling of creating, something that gets lost on AppleвЂ™s nearly flat boards. This keyboard is aimed at Apple fans who crave better typing experiences than what Apple offers as of late, and as such this board features longer key travel than youвЂ™ll find on the Magic Keyboard. YouвЂ™d be wrong to dismiss the Satechi as a cheap imitation of AppleвЂ™s keyboard. On the back, youвЂ™ll find a power slider that resembles AppleвЂ™s own and a USB-C charging port. Battery life isnвЂ™t all that impressive-Satechi claims itвЂ™ll go through 80 hours of active use and 100 of inactive before it needs to be charged through its USB-C port-but after I left it in the office for almost two weeks over the holiday, I was pleased to find it greeted me with almost a full charge. Unlike AppleвЂ™s model, itвЂ™s also available in both gold and rose gold along with the expected white and space gray variations. At a little less than half an inch high, it sits about as far off my writing surfaces as the Magic Keyboard (although it comes with two rubber knobs if you need more height). The SatechiвЂ™s 17-inch aluminum panel feels weighty and luxurious. Leif Johnson/IDGД«oth the Apple Magic Keyboard 2.(top) the Satechi Aluminum Bluetooth Keyboard have a caps lock light, but Satechi put its light in the upper-right corner where itвЂ™s less likely to be hidden by your fingers. If that sounds expensive, remember that Apple sells its own space gray version for a stunning $149.В You could almost buy two Satechi keyboards for that price. Even so, that logoвЂ™s absence lets you pick up what essentially amounts to a passable cousin of the Apple Magic Keyboard 2 with a keypad for a mere $79.99. Alas, an occasionally wonky pairing process reminds us that AppleвЂ™s logo usually speaks of a level of quality you canвЂ™t get from other companies.