Logitech Alto Takes Notebook PC Comfort to New Heights

Logitech Alto Takes Notebook PC Comfort to New Heights

Logitech (SWX: LOGN) (NASDAQ: LOGI) has made using a notebook PC more comfortable. The company today announced the Logitech® Alto™ notebook stand, a one-piece notebook riser with an integrated, full-size keyboard — a product that levels the notebook screen with people´s eyes and frees people´s hands from the constraints of a cramped notebook keypad.

Notebook PCs are fast-becoming the standard PC choice in homes around the world. But the compact form of a notebook PC often comes at the expense of comfort as people assume awkward postures to type on the small built-in keyboards, often with non-conventional key layouts, and stare down at the low-lying screens. The Logitech Alto addresses these comfort issues with a simple, all-in-one solution that opens like a book to reveal an integrated full-size keyboard on one side and an angled platform for the notebook PC on the other. The keyboard gives people the typing experience they are accustomed to having with a desktop PC, complete with a number pad, a media panel and a standard key layout, while the easy-to-set-up platform raises the monitor to eye level and establishes an ideal distance between the monitor and the user´s eyes.

Perfect for use at the desk or the kitchen table, the Logitech Alto takes less than 30 seconds to set up; it´s as simple as placing a notebook PC on the stand and plugging in the USB cable. And it´s designed to be equally as simple to put it away; by collapsing the stand and folding the product in half, reducing the size of the product to a slim and compact 9.33-by-16.84-by-1.41 inches (23.7-by-42.8-by-3.6 cm), making it easy to tuck away and clear valuable surfaces in the home.

“Notebooks offer a tremendous advantage because people can use them around the house and take them on the road — but when it comes to sitting and using a computer for an extended period of time, people miss the comfort and advantages of the raised monitor and the full-size keyboard that a desktop PC offers,” said Denis Pavillard, Logitech vice president of product marketing for keyboards and desktops. “The Logitech Alto notebook stand helps solve the comfort problem. And unlike a more complex and expensive docking station, Alto is simple to fold up and stash away when the notebook is not in use, so that people can also enjoy the benefits of open desk space.”

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