On: New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft

[kuschku]

No one uses numeric keyboard? WTF? How’d you enter numbers then, using the number row?

A huge issue with non-standard keyboards are international layouts. German layout is already requiring 2 or 3 keys combined to reach {[]}, but on some laptops you need either 3 or 4 keys combined, or often can’t reach it at all. Equally on most mobile bluetooth keyboards.

It’s as if no one thought about languages using more than US keys.

[dpark → kuschku]

> How’d you enter numbers then, using the number row?

How could anyone possibly enter numbers using the number keys in the number row?

It's almost as if the typical purchaser of laptops isn't entering numbers into spreadsheets endlessly.

[tomaskafka → kuschku]

Dell D630: Want to enter numbers? Hold FN, use uiopjkl;m,./ as a numpad. No mode switching.

No one replicated this. Sigh.

[ptaipale → tomaskafka]

What? I have a HP 735 which has a similar thing. I believe many others do as well.

However, if you really are into all that much entering numbers to spreadsheet, you'll probably want one of those USB or Bluetooth number keypads.

[rifung → kuschku]

I use the number row. Is that weird? I think it's much faster than using the numpad anyway since you have 8 fingers you can use instead of just 3 (or 4?) for the numpad. It also means you can much more easily switch between letters and numbers.