Unboxing the Space Gray Magic Mouse and Magic Trackpad | Magic Mouse and Magic Trackpad for iPad
I couldn’t help myself. I bought the space gray Magic Mouse 2 and the space gray Magic Trackpad, just for use with my iPad, after I’d suggested you shouldn’t buy a Magic Mouse just for an iPad. “I’m not necessarily a rational person.” I wanted them because they simply look better with my iPad than the white Magic Mouse I already had.
The Magic Mouse
The black Magic Mouse provides absolutely nothing more than my white one: it scrolls up and down, the whole top is touch sensitive, it has the same ridiculous charging port on the bottom, an on/off switch and a built-in battery, and it gets super fingerprinty. I’ve tried to think of logical reasons for buying it and have none.
The Magic Trackpad
The trackpad, on the other hand, has a lot of benefits for me. The trackpad built into the iPad Magic Keyboard is small and cramped, ridiculous, and difficult to do three-finger gestures on. This one is oversized, “comically large,” which gives plenty of room for full-hand gestures (three fingers, two fingers) for switching apps, moving around and editing video in LumaFusion: I can scrub the timeline incredibly quickly and accurately to find cut points and remove and add clips.
It also uses Force Touch: like on MacBooks and MacBook Pros, there’s no physical click. When powered off, pushing it does nothing; when connected, it uses haptic feedback and pressure sensitivity to make a clicking sound and vibrate so your brain thinks you clicked. I like it more than I thought: it’s much easier to click than the iPad Magic Keyboard’s, which uses a physical mechanism (a wedge shape, rocking when you press) but with a new mechanism that lets you press anywhere. That one is a physical click with some assembly that does a weird motion (I’ve seen the teardown; it’s cool), but this is much quieter and requires much less force.
Verdict
I really like them: the color and the size of the trackpad. It’s irrational to buy these just for an iPad, especially when you already have a mouse or trackpad available, but “this is not a channel just for rational people.” If you think I’m crazy, or did the same thing, tell me in the comments.
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