TURN YOUR IPAD INTO A LAPTOP: So I saw a kid at the mall with one of these the other day, and although I don’t own an iPad — I like my 11″ MacBook Air — it’s pretty cool. Slip the iPad into the hinged case, the keyboard connects via bluetooth, and you’ve basically got a superlight laptop. Nice for those who sometimes want to do more with the iPad than its virtual keyboard is good for. He said that he’d had it for a while and that it worked perfectly.

UPDATE: Reader Harry Williams emails: “My job involves looking at new technology for the college. I’ve had an iPad for sometime now, looking at where it fits in our plans. It is a great content consuming device. In my personal use, I’ve found 2 deficiencies, the lack of SMS (text messaging) and the lack of a tab on the soft keyboard. I’ve been using the Kensington KeyFolio Keyboard you mentioned to solve my tab key function for several months now. I can confirm that the Kensington is great. I’m extremely happy with it. In fact, at the beginning of February, I gave a demonstration to the college’s Board of Trustees about the iPads, the machines they all used were in the Kensington. My only complaint about the folio is that the holes in the folio force the home button on the iPad to be on the right side in the landscape orientation.”