Review on 🔌 Brydge 12.3 Pro+ Wireless Keyboard with Precision Touchpad - Compatible with Microsoft Surface 7, 6, 5 & 4 - Designed for Surface - Black by Corey Soto

Those of us who own Microsoft Surface tablets love and hate them. We love them because they are powerful, thin, light and comfortable to use. We hate them because they're not exactly laptops, even with the snap-on MS keyboard cover. The stand idea sounds good on paper, but how many of us really use tablets as tablets rather than dedicated laptops? Without a keyboard, you're effectively wasting 80% of Surface's power. Just buy an iPad if you only need a tablet. You will be satisfied with it just watching streaming videos or reading books. There are only a few options. a) You're buying a Micro$oft keyboard/lid combo, which is decent enough but doesn't really solve the painful stand problem when trying to use it as a pseudo-laptop. orb) You're buying a Bluetooth keyboard and folio combo, which tends to have a lot of compromises. Performance suffers and it all just looks cheap. Why spend $800 on a Surface when it looks like you put it in a cheap leather case with a crappy Bluetooth keyboard. Enter option c) Brydge 12.3 Pro+ Bluetooth Keyboard. It's the first and only (to my knowledge) keyboard that makes the Surface feel more like a SurfaceBook. You slide Surface into the clips that fit snugly against the keyboard, connect via Bluetooth, and start typing. I'm writing this review on it, BTW. In the world of Brydge 12.3 Pro+ Keyboard options: a) Incredible keyboard (super comfortable with a decent key spring) b) Well balanced (has enough weight that the tablet doesn't tip over) c) Bluetooth seems very stable, the pros are the same Hand. For the first time, the Surface feels like a real laptop without the feel of a cheap leather case/combo. The downsides are a little harder to define, but they boil down to one key issue. If you want a real SurfaceBook, be ready to shell out another $500 to get to the ballpark. It doesn't make Surface SurfaceBook. The surface does not "snap" into Brydge like an MS keyboard/lid is attached to a surface. Brydge uses small protrusions at the bottom corners of the surface to hold the surface in place. These are silicone coated clips that provide a firm but non "snapping" connection point to the tablet. In other words, the tablet *might* slip out of your hands, especially if you do what I did and try to put a sticker on the back of the Surface to protect the beautiful aluminum body from scratches. You'll then do what I did, cut off pieces of this beautiful leather so the clips make perfect, flat contact with the back of the Surface. After putting the skin on and trying to clip the Surface into the Brydge, the clips didn't make perfect contact, so the silicone coating didn't hold and the tablet immediately slid out. But if you buy a skin and spend just a few minutes creating a stencil to cut out the corners before sticking it to the surface, the silicone clips on the Brydge hold a tight enough connection to the tablet and you have all the features of A thin, powerful laptop with a durable, author-approved keyboard. In summary, the Brydge 12.3 Pro+ keyboard for the Microsoft Surface Pro tablet range offers incredible value for money, great performance and flawless functionality. Just buy a decent case for the back of your Surface and make sure the silicone coated pads holding the Surface in place make full contact with the tablet body and you've got the best of both worlds. The functionality of a Surface tablet when you need it and the convenience of a laptop keyboard for 80% of the real purposes we buy a Surface for in the first place. Highly recommended.