Apple iPad Air ?

[DELUCAS]

Apple iPad Air

Might be on the horizon to compete with Asus Trabsformer prime !
could be an intresting year 2012

 

[Desmo]

Looking at the prime, it's just a tablet with a plugin keyboard? Or is there more to it than that? I can see apple just keeping the current iPad setup and offering a nicer plugin keyboard option if they really want to compete with the prime, although I'm not sure they do.

 

[dc8900]

Looking at the prime, it's just a tablet with a plugin keyboard? Or is there more to it than that? I can see apple just keeping the current iPad setup and offering a nicer plugin keyboard option if they really want to compete with the prime, although I'm not sure they do.

the Prime is pretty much the best Android tablet out there IMO and has the most elegant KB dock solution (even with my iPad 2 I do get a serious case of gadget-lust when it comes to the Prime). I'm not sure that Apple would release an 'iPad Air' as it would lead to too much blurring of the lines with the MBA. However, I can imagine that they might introduce a much better KB dock option.

 

[gkpm]

The Prime is indeed a nice tablet, but once you add its keyboard dock it becomes heavier than the MacBook Air - but a lot less useful. Apple would have to do better than that to interest me.

As for existing iPad + keyboard alternatives I've heard good things about the Zagg Folio:

http://www.zagg.com/accessories/zaggfolio-ipad-2-keyboard-case-b.php