Razer Keyboard for iPad? #Helpful Post

 Hey guys this is Austin, and today I'm here with a video

on a really weird one.

This is the Razer Mechanical Keyboard for iPad Pro.

The idea here is that you're going to be able

to upgrade your keyboard on the iPad

to actually get a mechanical key switch.

So, I was on Twitter yesterday morning

and I saw they had announced this.

Why is Razer making a mechanical keyboard

for an iPad?

This is gonna be hard for you to make,

cause none of this makes any sense to me, at all.

So, first of all, we actually have the

keyboard case itself.

So, this is not only a keyboard,

but it's also a keyboard case.

So, if we pop the iPad Pro in like this,

we have a very, very weird Razer laptop.

So, on the back, we actually have a metal kickstand.

Alright, you know, that actually does go a long way toward

making the iPad feel more like a laptop.

Oh!

This whole thing comes out?

It's a little weird how this is magnetic,

and I guess I get the idea that if I want to

separate it and still be able to type on it,

I mean, that works.

And maybe if I was gaming or something

I might want to put the iPad farther away.

But, it's a little weird.

I kinda feel like it would be nicer

if this was a more complete package.

I just saw this.

You have a Razer logo on the back of your iPad,

in case you really wanna be a poser or something.

It feels decent.

I don't quite believe their claim that this

is exactly the same as typing on a normal

mechanical keyboard.

There is a fair bit of key travel

and you do get a little bit of that click clack

sorta sound, but it's not the same as typing

on proper Cherry MX switches.

Interestingly, this is the exact same price

as the Apple Smart keyboard.

Yeah, no, I'm nowhere near as fast on this.

There's just, there's no real key travel, here.

One big difference with the Smart Keyboard

is that it does use a Smart Connector.

There's no need to sync it.

There's no need to worry about Bluetooth.

There's no need to worry about batteries.

It literally just snaps together,

but that is a lot smaller

than this.

One nice thing is that you do get backlighting

with the Razer keyboard, however, that severely

hurts the battery life.

So, without backlighting on, you're getting

somewhere in the neighborbood of 600 hours

on a charge.

However, if you turn that light on,

you're down to 10 hours.

As a Razer product, you would expect this would

be good at gaming, however, I don't believe

any iOS apps will actually support

keyboard input for gaming.

Yeah, there's nothing here.

I, however, am not going to take no for an answer.

So, this is the $400 laptop

I actually recently just did a video on.

Let's see if it'll actually Bluetooth.

How does a Bluetooth thing Bluetooth?

Can you Bluetooth?

Is Bluetoothing a thing?

That works.

Mind you, I am currently using a Bluetooth

keyboard and a trackpad.

Ah! Shoot! Shoot!

Shoot!

You shouldn't actually do this.

Nevermind.

This is a bad idea.

But the keyboard is Bluetooth and it works.

If you compare this to most laptop keyboards,

and especially iPad keyboards,

it is way, way better, however, everything else

about it kinda falls flat.

The idea of having a kickstand is nice,

but the fact that it doesn't really want

to go fully flat until you really smash it

down, that's weird.

But honestly, the biggest killer for me

is the fact that it's super sloppy, right?

So...

No.

That's like, that's not something, if I'm

gonna pay $170, I do not want my keyboard to do this.

So, what do you guys think about this keyboard for the iPad?

Definitely be sure to let me know in the comments

below and I will catch you in the next one.