Logitech makes the perfect keyboard for an iPad

By JIM ROSSMAN | The Dallas Morning News
Published: June 11, 2012 Updated: June 11, 2012 - 12:00 AM

The iPad is a content consumption device. It was designed to load up with movies and music and books to let the user consume all those things effortlessly.

It was not meant to be a content creation device ? at least not at first.

I know plenty of people, including myself, who wondered whether the iPad could be a viable replacement for a laptop. Heck, I want a full-functioning Macbook the size of the iPad.

For Web surfing and reading email, I find the iPad to be ideal, but the on-screen keyboard is less than ideal for writing more than just a quick email response.

I'm a writer, and to write, I need a real keyboard. Luckily, Apple made the iPad compatible with Bluetooth keyboards.

Plenty of companies have made Bluetooth keyboards for the iPad, and most are in some manner of folio case.

Logitech has been making keyboards for years, and it's made several models for the iPad. I've been using the Logitech Ultrathin Keyboard Cover for iPad, which works for the iPad 2 and the new iPad. It's not for the original iPad, as it's designed to work with the magnets built into the later iPads.

The Ultrathin, which sells for $99.99, is about the same size as the iPad, and it attaches to the iPad with the same magnets used by Apple's Smart Covers.

It also has the built-in magnets to put the iPad to sleep when it's closed and wake it up when it's open.

When the keyboard is attached to the iPad, it resembles a small laptop.

To use the keyboard, you separate the two pieces and fit the iPad into a slot in the keyboard. The slot has a magnet that keeps the iPad snugly in its place.

The iPad can fit vertically or horizontally in the slot.

The keyboard runs on an internal battery that can last a few months on a charge.

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