One of Belkin's newest cases, the QODE
Slim Style Keyboard Case, lets you add a full size keyboard to your iPad Air while adding some pretty good protection at the same time.
The Surface 3 running Windows weighs 1.95 pounds with its Type Cover, and the iPad Air weighs 2.1 pounds when you add a third - party keyboard like the Belkin
Slim Style Keyboard.
Belkin's
Slim Style Keyboard Case offers the same number of keys as a traditional laptop.
Not exact matches
To make its portables
slimmer, Apple switched from using a
keyboard with scissor -
style switches to butterfly - switches, which have less key travel, but can also be less comfortable to use for some people.
In the case of the Eee Pad, once you separate it from the
keyboard, you still have a
slim and elegantly designed tablet, which is one of it's strengths: there doesn't seem to be a weak link in this forging of tablets and netbooks, except perhaps that the
keyboard retains it's hinge -
style dock once the tablet is removed.