Apple's latest incarnation of the iPad turned out to be a distillation and refinement of what has defined the product. The Apple offering ships free of any keyboard connectors or covers in contrast to the Surface 2 and Nokia 2520 that vied for headlines with the iPad Air's introduction.
With so much written about the notebook's attempts to capitulate to the iPad's success, though, one must consider the other side of the tablet-notebook continuum even in the world of Apple. The maker of MacBooks and iPads draws di
