Logitech Alto Cordless Notebook Stand

Logitech Alto Cordless Notebook Stand

Take your laptop to new heights with the Logitech Alto portable notebook stand with built-in keyboard. An adjustable stand puts your notebook screen at a more comfortable viewing height and the full-sized keyboard lets you type faster and with less fatigue. Alto flips open for instant use on almost any flat surface and folds down to a compact size when you want your desk space back. Convenient, one-touch media keys give you quick access to digital music and favorite applications. Three high-speed USB ports provide instant connectivity with your mice, webcams, printers and other devices.

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars Simply Elegance
It looks good and works- Just like me- ladies! Give me all I need to convert my laptop to a desktop. Why pay more?

4 Stars would recommend

no problems. the transaction was a smooth one from the initial order request to the prompt delivery.The item was packaged very well.as for the stand itself it serves the purpose it was intended for with no problems.

5 Stars Great investment for the health of your neck and eyes. Great usability.
I switched to just using notebook about 1.5 years ago, spending on average 8 hours a day working with it. I found my shoulders, neck, and eyes are all working in the wrong postures, hence, damaging them. Alto Cordless Stand holds my notebook (ASUS U6E 12.1″, Vista Business) at a proper height allowing the screen to be at eye level. Its rubber ledge keeps my notebook from sliding even though it has a slanted bottom edge. The cordless keyboard allows for flexible typing position. Additional USB ports with power supply increases connectivities. No driver needed. Plug-and-play (with USB). The keyboard needs 2 AAA batteries. After a few days of use, I feel much more relax while working with my notebook. Instead of paying doctors to fix my damaged body parts, I’d rather use this device to keep them healthy. NO pain, YES gain.

5 Stars Logitech Cordless Notebook Stand
Much more comfortable to have a “real keyboard”. Eliminates the multi-key striking problem that I have with my laptop keyboard. It’s also nice to have the screen up where it can be viewed without looking down. I bought one for my office where I can plug my printer and camera into the USB ports on the stand instead of having an “octopus” of wires that I have connect ever day to my laptop. I liked it so much I bought one for my home office. A great product.

5 Stars Logitech Alto Cordless — Awesome keyboard!
I have had my keyboard for a few weeks now, and I love it! I had been hesitant to buy a cordless keyboard for several years now, since the last one I bought (a Kensington) had poor reception and was worse to type on than my laptop! However, I was looking for something that I could bring to school, because my neck and shoulders would hurt after working at the desks there. I liked that the alto closes up so that keys are protected in transport.

The best part is that the keyboard feels great! It is not mushy like my Microsoft keyboard, but it is quieter than my laptop keyboard and just as responsive. The vertical home/end/page up/page down buttons took some getting used to–for a while I kept deleting things when I was looking for another key (no big deal wit Ctrl+Z). And the keyboard rocks a little when the back tilt stand is flipped out. Everything else about the keyboard is perfect.

The keyboard stand is nice, too. I set it up next to my lcd monitor at home, and the position of the dual screens is very usable. I didn’t care about the USB ports when I bought this, but they have definitely come in handy. Note that you don’t need to plug in the power adapter unless you are using a usb device which draws a particularly large amount of power (eg., portable hard drive). I plug anything that draws power directly into my laptop and then less power-intensive devices into the alto stand. I’ve never used the power adapter and never had problems.

The main drawback for me is its weight and its closure mechanism. I think that it uses a magnetic closure which is both heavy and not secure (it will stay in place in your bag, but I wouldn’t hold it with just the base, or the keyboard would probably fall off). It *just* fits in my largish rolling computer bag, but a smaller bag would not hold it.

PROS:

* Responsive, comfortable keyboard

* Semi-portable

* Convenient laptop stand

* USB ports

CONS:

* Weight

* No way to latch it closed

* Nonstandard layout of Home/End/Page Up/Page Down keys

* Non-adjustable stand

* The flip-out feet on the back of my keyboard are not aligned properly, so the keyboard rocks when using that… very annoying, but not a deal-breaker for me.

* No mouse included is okay, but would have been nice to have a track point, touchpad, or trackball on the keyboard.

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