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Page 2 of 3 At the rear of the Alto is a 2-port USB2.0 hub, which by default is unpowered, but has a power input available if your devices require it. Unfortunately the Alto doesn’t actually come with a power pack to go into this port, so you’ll have to find one elsewhere that’s suitable. For the price they’re asking for the Alto I would have thought a power pack would be included. USB Ports  Also at the rear of the Alto is a cable management system to keep your desk nice and tidy, and a small section just above the USB ports is magnetised for keeping the Alto together when it’s closed up, but I also found this useful for sticking down USB ports that weren’t being used at the time, maybe not a feature, but I found it useful regardless. Alto - Back  Cable Management  In front of the USB ports and that little magnet pad is the keyboard lights such as Num Lock and Caps Lock, as well as a switch to turn the keyboard on or off. This switch is useful because the keyboard on the Alto is designed to fold up over the notebook if you need to recover some desk space, and you wouldn’t want any keys being pressed and ruining your open documents when you fold it up would you? The information pad as we’ll call it also has status lights for the USB ports, they don’t blink or flash with activity, but rather just tell you whether something’s plugged in or not. Everything on the Alto will connect up to your notebook through a single USB cable, making it all nice and easy to hook up when you get into work. Info Panel  If you need to transport the Alto around it folds up nicely upon itself, however it weighs in at around 2.3Kg, which is quite considerable and more than some modern notebooks weigh themselves, so wouldn’t want to carry it in your notebook bag every day, it’d be more hassle than it’s worth I believe.
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