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Almost forgot since it's a recent purchase! For working on my laptop long stretches and for typing with the iPad, I just picked up a Nuphy Type 1 (https://nuphy
by castillar76 5y ago
Almost forgot since it's a recent purchase! For working on my laptop long stretches and for typing with the iPad, I just picked up a Nuphy Type 1 (https://nuphy.com/collections/shop/products/nutype-f1 https://nuphy.com/collections/shop/products/nutype-f1) and I really like it. It uses Kailh Choc switches, which are mechanical low-travel switches that are the predecessor to the Kailh Box switches—I got the white variety since I like the clicky.
What I love: it's portable, and includes its own wrap-around case with magnetic clip at the bottom that folds up to make a stand for your mobile/iPad. It also has little cut-out bits on the bottom that slot perfectly into the keyboards on the 2016+ MacBook Pro (the butterfly-keyboard models) because the inventor wanted a better keyboard for his laptop. So once you slip it onto the laptop it clicks into place on the top and then it includes a short USB-C cable to plug it into the side port. It also does 3-device Bluetooth with a keyboard shortcut to switch profiles, so you can tap away on your laptop with it and then hit a key combo and type on your iPad. The switches are nice: clicky, but not so penetratingly loud that you couldn't work with it in a public place. For the times that I'm having to do long-form writing or a lengthy stretch of paper-grading on my laptop, it's a terrific purchase, and it makes typing out stuff on the iPad MUCH nicer than trying to tap on the screen.
The downsides: It's a near-exact copy of the MacBook Pro keyboard layout, so you're missing a lot of keys from a larger-sized keyboard. Since it closely matches the laptop layout I can put my brain in laptop mode and deal with it, but it's annoying to be missing things like F-keys. Also the right shift is in a weird spot because of the way they jammed the arrow keys into the layout, so that took a little getting used to. It's also not terrifically light since the aluminum frame is really solid: it's not awful, but it's also not nearly as feather-light as the Magic Keyboard I had been using with my iPad. Also, while the switches are good, the way they've constructed the stabilizers for the larger keys is a little weird and it makes things like the space-bar a little squishier than I like. And the keycaps are technically hot-swap, but I can't imagine finding a set from anyone but Nuphy that would fit this thing.