IPad Air ($499 to $929), the fifth generation of full-size iPads.Īpple has taken everything people love about the fourth-generation iPad-Retina display, great performance, thin profile, solid build-and improved on it. How do you make it lustworthy all over again? Make it smaller, thinner, and lighter without sacrificing battery life or durability, and without raising the price. IPad Air How do you improve the best tablet on the market? Make it faster and more capable. Other zippy, thin drives have followed, but the Envoy Pro EX reset the bar for us. It offers 240GB of solid-state capacity, and it posted some of the fastest AJA-benchmark write speeds we’ve seen (even faster than many single-drive Thunderbolt units we’ve tested). Weighing 3.8 ounces and measuring 0.4 inch thick, 2.1 inches wide, and 4.5 inches long, the Envoy Pro EX is about the size of an iPhone. Small, stylish, and swift, the USB 3.0, bus-powered Envoy Pro EX is an extremely portable drive. Typical SSDs have the same dimensions as a 2.5-inch laptop hard drive, but the Envoy Pro EX uses OWC’s Aura Pro SSD, which is built more like a RAM module than a drive mechanism. (The K811’s internal battery charges via USB.) It’s the most capable and versatile Mac keyboard we’ve seen.Įnvoy Pro EX SSD What’s smaller than a portable hard drive, larger than a thumb drive, and really, really fast? OWC’s $289Įnvoy Pro EX external solid-state drive. It even sports motion-activated backlighting for typing in dimly lit environments, a feature that many a Mac user has wished Apple’s Wireless Keyboard provided. The Easy-Switch is smaller and lighter than Apple’s Wireless Keyboard-it’s perfect for tossing in your laptop bag-and it offers better key feel and better compatibility with iOS devices. In fact, it pairs with up to three such devices simultaneously, letting you switch your active Bluetooth connection between them with a simple key press. Both? Yes, both, because the Easy-Switch pairs with Macs and iOS devices-and even Apple TVs. Keyboard is the ideal keyboard for an Apple user, thanks to its Mac-matching design, great keys, a standard key layout, and a nice batch of special-function keys for both OS X and iOS. Logitech Bluetooth Easy-Switch Keyboard K811īluetooth Easy-Switch Keyboard K811 Logitech’s $100 Quick reference chart: 2013 Macworld Editors’ Choice winners Hardware
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