{"id":31928,"date":"2021-03-19T17:01:20","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T21:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=31928"},"modified":"2021-03-19T17:01:20","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T21:01:20","slug":"kensington-studiodock-for-ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/19\/kensington-studiodock-for-ipad\/","title":{"rendered":"Kensington StudioDock for iPad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macstories.net\/reviews\/first-impressions-kensingtons-studiodock-aims-to-turn-your-ipad-pro-into-an-expandable-desktop-workstation\/\">Federico Viticci<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macstories.net\/reviews\/first-impressions-kensingtons-studiodock-aims-to-turn-your-ipad-pro-into-an-expandable-desktop-workstation\/\">\n<p>I&rsquo;ve spent the past 24 hours testing Kensington&rsquo;s long-anticipated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kensington.com\/innovative-products\/studiodock\/\">StudioDock<\/a>, a $400 docking station that aims to turn the iPad Pro into a desktop workstation with support for display rotation, expansion via USB-C, USB-A, and SD card slots, and integrated Qi charging for iPhone and AirPods. And just like last year, I find myself torn between appreciating the potential of this product and concerned about its timing given rumors of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2021\/03\/09\/2021-ipad-pro-case-found-at-target\/\">impending iPad Pro refresh<\/a> just around the corner.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The StudioDock is a stand that lets you dock the iPad at your desk by attaching it to a magnetic panel that can be rotated to landscape or portrait mode and tilted from 0 to 120 degrees to adjust its viewing angle. Visually, the StudioDock looks like a &ldquo;mini iMac&rdquo; where the iPad Pro becomes the display and the &ldquo;foot&rdquo; of the stand has a built-in Qi charging pad split into two areas for iPhones and AirPods (or any other device that supports wireless charging and fits on the pad). What makes the StudioDock unique &#x2013; and, arguably, explains its price &#x2013; is that, in addition to Qi charging, the stand itself packs a variety of ports to extend the iPad Pro&rsquo;s I\/O options.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/08\/ipad-desk-mode\/\">iPad Desk Mode<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/21\/magic-keyboard-for-ipad\/\">Magic Keyboard for iPad<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/18\/ipad-pro-2020-and-magic-keyboard-with-trackpad\/\">iPad Pro 2020 and Magic Keyboard With Trackpad<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/21\/beyond-the-tablet\/\">Beyond the Tablet: Seven Years of iPad as My Main Computer<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federico Viticci: I&rsquo;ve spent the past 24 hours testing Kensington&rsquo;s long-anticipated StudioDock, a $400 docking station that aims to turn the iPad Pro into a desktop workstation with support for display rotation, expansion via USB-C, USB-A, and SD card slots, and integrated Qi charging for iPhone and AirPods. And just like last year, I find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-03-19T21:01:23Z","apple_news_api_id":"34035ff9-3027-4801-b03b-3ccab3fc55ed","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-03-19T21:01:23Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ANANf-TAnSAGwOzzKs_xV7Q","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[762,452,1035,31,1837,145,1269,761,1578,175,1154],"class_list":["post-31928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-ethernet","tag-hardware","tag-hdmi","tag-ios","tag-ios-14","tag-ipad","tag-ipad-pro","tag-microsd","tag-qi-charging","tag-usb","tag-usb-c"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31929,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31928\/revisions\/31929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}