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If I could give one feedback to system76, or even better, to all laptop manufacturers: please start making 15 inch laptops without numpad. I was considering buy

by loop0 7y ago

If I could give one feedback to system76, or even better, to all laptop manufacturers: please start making 15 inch laptops without numpad. I was considering buying a system76 in the past and this was what prevented me to buy one.

rjsw 7y ago
I have switched to a keyboard without a numeric keypad for my desktop machine, really don't need one for a laptop.
jjuel 7y 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.
- zchrykng 7y ago
  That is exactly the same thing the parent post said...
  - Wowfunhappy 7y ago
    You're reading too quickly! :) GGP wants numpads, GP wants no numpads. Edit: Nope, I'm the one reading too quickly, oops.
    - syntheticnature 7y ago
      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"
  - Chris2048 7y ago
    He said he don't want no laptop that isn't without an absence of numpads.
  - jjuel 7y ago
    I definitley read that wrong. Whoops! My apologies! For some reason I thought he said Stop instead of Start.
- Wowfunhappy 7y ago
  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.
- roflchoppa2 7y ago
  alright theres only 1 solution to this; please allow the keyboard to be hotswapped.
- buckminster 7y ago
  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.
- ThePowerOfFuet 7y ago
  >I go the other way. The comment you replied to is in agreement with you re numpads.
bityard 7y ago
I hope they keep them since I will only ever buy 15" laptops with a number pad. Typing in IP addresses, something I do many times daily in my line of work, is much quicker on a numpad than on the horizontal row of number keys.
- capableweb 7y ago
  Are you looking forward to the future where having a number pad won't help you enter ipv6 addresses? Well, at least it'll make you enter the address slower than if you use the "normal" number row + letters instead of numpad + letters.

by loop0 7y ago

rjsw 7y ago

I have switched to a keyboard without a numeric keypad for my desktop machine, really don't need one for a laptop.

jjuel 7y 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.

zchrykng 7y ago
That is exactly the same thing the parent post said...
- Wowfunhappy 7y ago
  You're reading too quickly! :) GGP wants numpads, GP wants no numpads. Edit: Nope, I'm the one reading too quickly, oops.
  - syntheticnature 7y ago
    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"
- Chris2048 7y ago
  He said he don't want no laptop that isn't without an absence of numpads.
- jjuel 7y ago
  I definitley read that wrong. Whoops! My apologies! For some reason I thought he said Stop instead of Start.
Wowfunhappy 7y ago
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.
roflchoppa2 7y ago
alright theres only 1 solution to this; please allow the keyboard to be hotswapped.
buckminster 7y ago
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.
ThePowerOfFuet 7y ago
>I go the other way. The comment you replied to is in agreement with you re numpads.

bityard 7y ago

I hope they keep them since I will only ever buy 15" laptops with a number pad. Typing in IP addresses, something I do many times daily in my line of work, is much quicker on a numpad than on the horizontal row of number keys.

capableweb 7y ago
Are you looking forward to the future where having a number pad won't help you enter ipv6 addresses? Well, at least it'll make you enter the address slower than if you use the "normal" number row + letters instead of numpad + letters.