Using iPad like your laptop can be very hard, therefore Apple has also introduced new tools so that you can use your iPad work like a work-station. The Apple iPad Keyboard Dock is a perfect tool to connect iPad with a 30 pin connector. It comes with a full-size keyboard and ability to connect with many external devices as well.
We tried writing long articles using the dock and it worked very well for us. The style of iPad combined with the features of the dock blended extremely well. The cost of the dock is about $100 and I feel it is a very useful accessory. Typing on the standard touch screen can be a bit challenging because it requires a gentle touch and there is no way that you can bang it like a standard keyboard. This device is perfectly for surfing the web, reading articles but jobs that require a lot of typing are only possible conveniently id you have the iPad Dock.
Article directories like http://www.saching.com have already optimized their interface to work well with Apple users. Another content management system http://www.writearticles.org was also modified accordingly. Both websites told that they plan to combine their regular articles website and mobile articles website into one in future as the distinction between classic browsers is slowly decreasing. For example, it is hard to classify iPad as a mobile device or a laptop.
Although iPad lacks USB port, it has many other cool features. Apart form the pre-features which apply provides, the best part is that you can install a boat load of custom Apps developed by programmers. iPod users know the power of these apps very well.
We can expect more productivity tools for iPad in near future which will be great for office use and for tasks which require heavy typing (like writing articles).
