Clip the Brydge Pro+ keyboard to an 11-inch iPad Pro to make an ultraportable laptop ready for school or work. And the useful add-on is available now for just $29.99.
If you’ve been thinking about upgrading your first, second or third-generation iPad Pro 11-inch with a keyboard and trackpad, there’s never been a better time.
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Make your 11-inch iPad Pro into mini MacBook lite
You can not turn a MacBook into a tablet, but you can turn an iPad into a laptop. Just add a clip-on keyboard with trackpad to make a clamshell computer ready to type an English paper, enter data into a spreadsheet, or fire off a lengthy email to the marketing department.
The Brydge Pro+ is well-suited for this. It includes a pair of clamps that hold one edge of the tablet to the keyboard. The clamps are also the hinges, making the 11-inch inch iPad Pro into a convertible with the shape of a small MacBook.
The add-on keyboard hit the market in 2020. At its debut, the Cult of Mac review of the Brydge Pro+ said, “One of the best keyboards money can buy for iPad Pro now comes with a built-in trackpad.”
The accessory struggled a bit at launch because Brydge built in a trackpad before iPadOS was really ready for one. However, successive software updates dealt with those issues. Just make sure to update the keyboard/trackpad firmware via the free Brydge Connect app, available on the App Store.
Brydge Pro+ keyboard for 11-inch iPad Pro for just $30
The Brydge Pro+ cost $199 when it debuted in 2020. It’s now selling from Woot! for $29.95.
Buy it from: Woot!
The Woot! sale may expire at any time, but the add-on tablet keyboard currently costs just $10 more from Amazon.
Buy it from: Amazon
Note: The Brydge Pro+ fits the 11-inch iPad Pro first- (2018), second- (2020) and third- (2021) generation models only.
