What about a keyboard layout that at least remotely resembles a real keyboard or uses the FN key intelligently. Like lets make the arrow keys + fn work like page up/down home/end. Instead they make these absolutely insane-o layouts which are impractical and different on every single f-ing laptop even of the same manufacturer. Look at macbooks. All of em. For last 5 yrs. Same keyboard layout AND it is usable because macos does not need the home/end/etc keys instead they have decent combinations. Still solvable by good fn key placements. Also who the hell needs numlock on a laptop. Never seen a single practical reason for it except to annoy the crap out of you "why do some keys make numbers for no good reason".
Just figure that crap out.
And the names are like car names. They don't want to give an impression that a computer is "bad" or "slow" or "crippled". Do you want to tell your friends "I got a Dell Crippled v3" so they go for the insane-o names. But apple has maybe 1000x less component combinations available as a baseline model. Remember they control the hardware, while these vendors sell mish-mashes of different hardwares.
Most of the Asus netbooks have the types of keyboard layouts you refer to (with numlock, scrolllock relegated to Fn+ keys). I don't know about their bigger laptops.
Just figure that crap out.
And the names are like car names. They don't want to give an impression that a computer is "bad" or "slow" or "crippled". Do you want to tell your friends "I got a Dell Crippled v3" so they go for the insane-o names. But apple has maybe 1000x less component combinations available as a baseline model. Remember they control the hardware, while these vendors sell mish-mashes of different hardwares.