Laptop numberpad yay or nay

hornetstinger · 18 Jul 2022 at 22:15

Is number pad essential, would you rather have it than not?
Personally I'd rather have it.

hornetstinger · 18 Jul 2022 at 22:38

Also the up/down keys, some are half size, those are a pain- some brands use the half size ones so that puts me off that model.

hornetstinger · 19 Jul 2022 at 13:34

Noticed difference in key size, do websites state dimensions of keys? A couple of laptops I tried have quite small keys

hornetstinger · 19 Jul 2022 at 15:08

Yaayuh! said:
Yay.
Not having a numberpad would really bug me.

Full size arrow keys is desirable

hornetstinger · 19 Jul 2022 at 15:28

So solution is to epoxy glue a IBM beige AT keyboard to the top of a laptop?

hornetstinger · 19 Jul 2022 at 15:31

Rroff said:
Both of my main ones have a numpad - more than 2/3rd of my previous ones have. On my 17" it is a full numpad block distinct from the other keys.

I'd rather have it than not personally though not a deal breaker for a large amount of my laptop use.

It's a number pad. Not numpad.

hornetstinger · 19 Jul 2022 at 20:35

TheVoice said:
Don't like them. I like a fullsize separate keyboard on my PC, but a numpad on a laptop looks far too busy and as others have said, often results in other keys being moved around or slimmed down, or key space being made tighter.

What if the keyboard is edge to edge?