Does it inhibit the ability to type? No, not directly. But surely.įor one, my Magic Keyboard has suffered from that warping everyone talked about a few months ago. Ever since, day by day, that experience has diminished. My peak experience with the Magic Keyboard was on day one. Since then, I’ve been using the Apple Magic Keyboard with Numeric Keypad as much as humanly possible, both because it largely inhabits everything I thought I wanted in a keyboard, and because I want to use my MacBook Pro’s keyboard sparingly to ensure it still has resale value in a few years. Of course, Apple listened to me and launched a Magic Keyboard with Numeric Keypad about a year and a bit later, ensuring I had to stand by my definitive words and purchase yet another keyboard. That’s about as definitive as I could have been. Apparently I went this far in my praise: Don’t need a keypad? The Magic Keyboard is getting close to being the perfect keyboard for everything else.

Everyone adored the prior Apple Wireless Keyboard (for the most part, me too), but the Magic Keyboard seemed to surpass all expectations. I heaped all sorts of praise on Apple’s Magic Keyboard and Trackpad 2 when they launched at the end of 2015. I'm Going Back to the Good Ol’ Fashioned Wired Apple Keyboard Wednesday, May 09, 2018