How to use an external keyboard with your iPad

You may be able to ditch your heavy laptop and take along your iPad instead, if you use an external keyboard for long typing sessions. In this video, I show you how to use a keyboard with your iPad and we take a look at some keyboards made especially for that purpose.

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This is Macworld senior editor Scholle Sawyer McFarland.

It’s light. It’s portable. And the iPad is powerful enough that many of us have wondered if we could skip lugging the laptop around and use it instead. But the sticking point is what to do about a keyboard.

The iPad’s onscreen keyboard is OK for typing in URLs and short messages, but for long typing sessions—taking notes at meetings or in class, or writing in coffee shops—you can’t beat the comfort and feedback of a real keyboard.

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