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by jjuel 2293 days ago
I go the other way. I wish all laptop manufacturers would stop making 15in laptops with numpads. The way the keyboard is offset makes it terrible in my opinion. Of course I don't do a lot of stuff that requires me to make use of a numpad either.
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Agree completely. I completely understand, and even appreciate, the utility of a numpad, but I can't deal with the offset keyboard that comes as a result.

Even on desktops, numpads bother me.

That is exactly the same thing the parent post said...
You're reading too quickly! :)

GGP wants numpads, GP wants no numpads.

Edit: Nope, I'm the one reading too quickly, oops.

Projection! GGP doesn't want numpads either. Based on phrasing, they might be okay with some laptops offering it, where as GP wants them eliminated.

GGP: "start making 15 inch laptops without numpad"

GP: "stop making 15in laptops with numpads"

He said he don't want no laptop that isn't without an absence of numpads.
I definitley read that wrong. Whoops! My apologies! For some reason I thought he said Stop instead of Start.
Even without a numpad the keyboard is already irritatingly offset. There's just more stuff to the right of the alphas.

A 15" laptop with no numpad and the alphas (not the whole keyboard) centred would be ideal.

alright theres only 1 solution to this; please allow the keyboard to be hotswapped.
>I go the other way.

The comment you replied to is in agreement with you re numpads.