[godot]

Good idea but agreed that it would never happen given the trends.

What I'm really disappointed by is laptop manufactures pretty much only go two routes now on laptop keyboard layouts: 1. The one with numpad on wider laptops like this one, 2. The compact one with smaller arrow keys and no nav keys (Home/End/Pgup/Pgdown) in a reasonable place. (typically hidden behind Fn+arrows)

I used to have this old laptop, Dell Latitude E6410, that had pretty much the perfect laptop keyboard for me to write code with. It looks like this [1]. I use Home/End keys extensively while coding and it's part of muscle memory to reach for them directly vertically above arrow keys. This is the only laptop with a keyboard layout like this that I know of. (the full size arrow keys also help)

1: https://miro.medium.com/max/1400/1*pDN_eHnop3QdkRbjkxRSFQ.jp...

[twicetwice]

I also use Home/End a lot while writing code, and interestingly (at least to me!) I've become totally accustomed to using the Fn+arrows. It's like having to hit Shift to type curly braces and other common symbols—it became completely automatic and subconscious after a while.

[TomMarius]

HP nw8240 had a similar layout, nw9440 had the full size