[gowld]

Mandatory Numberpad in a laptop is shibboleth that shows that a laptop designer has no human factors design or testing, but chases "checklists" of features. If a laptop has a Numberpad, it's going to have a lot of other usability problems. The only thing worse is a seller who pushes a 15" laptop "because it's bigger" but puts a 768p display in it.

[efreak]

To me personally, 14" is the sweet spot for laptops. I used to want the numpad on a laptop, but more recently I've noticed that my desktop keyboard doesn't actually sit centered in front of my monitor--the right side of the keyboard is usually more or less lined up with the right side of my primary monitor, almost centering it.