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I always wondered this too and it seems odd, but, over the last 5 years I'm noticing a trend of developers using their macbooks/ultrabooks as primary and they a

I always wondered this too and it seems odd, but, over the last 5 years I'm noticing a trend of developers using their macbooks/ultrabooks as primary and they are used to that format and look for it in a workstation/docked keyboard. Personally my numpad is indispensable and I never understood the desire to have a tiny keyboard.

retzkek 6y ago
Most "tiny" keyboard layouts put the numpad one keypress away, right under your hand. With an ortho keyboard you don't even have to retrain muscle memory. There's very little downside.