Brydge pledges to turn iPads into MacBooks
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Tablet naysayers will - not unreasonably - claim that adding a keyboard to a fondleslab only goes to show how much better laptops are in the first place.
But that didn't stop Asus offering just such an add-on for its Transformer line of tablets - just for you, iPad naysayers - and now here's an version for the Apple gadget.
Not by Asus, but by Brydge, which has taken to plea-for-money site Kickstarter to fund production.
Its offering is also called the Brydge, a MacBook-style keyboard clad in "aerospace-grade aluminum" with a hinge that turns the tablet into a 1.2kg clamshell laptop.
Tablet talks to keyboard by Bluetooth, as so many other iPad keyboard attachments do, but a pricier version of the product has stereo speakers on board to relay the iPad's output. The keyboard has its own battery, charged over a micro USB link.
The team is taking advance orders now by way of Kickstarter pledges that price the basic model at $150 (£93) - or $180 (£111) for the model with speakers. Brydge will ship internationally. ®
COMMENTS
Sorry you didn't like my comment, but even Apple can't change the law of gravity.
A keyboard with a battery?
Having to recharge your keyboard is a bit much, why don't they just plug in into the USB por.... ah, sorry - how stupid of me.
Probably not
1) It doesn't duplicate an Apple product. In fact Tim Cook categorically said he has no plans to make an iPad/laptop hybrid. So they're not in the firing line for now.
2) Lots of people produce laptops that completely rip off the macbook keyboard area layout-look at the last HP Envy 15! Apple clearly are focusing on their primary targets: Samsung and Android.
I think as long as this just adds to the reasons to buy Apple they won't mind.
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