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Commence downranking.]]>Mar 3rd 2009 9:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/Mar 3rd 2009 10:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/
seriously, apple. wtf? and here I thought the onion was kidding with the apple wheel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BnLbv6QYcA
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Apple numeric keypad add-on. Only $39.99!

:-)]]>Mar 3rd 2009 11:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/Mar 3rd 2009 2:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/Does it come with a usb hub combo with 20 ports?

XD]]>Mar 3rd 2009 2:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/
It isn't true. :(]]>Mar 3rd 2009 2:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/its an option. keypad or no keypad.
a little 12 year old girl on disney.com, or the stay at home mom who is looking up a recipe for broccoli casserole might not need to punch in excel spreadsheets at record breaking speeds. so these people might complain why the keyboard is almost doubled by useless keys. ]]>Mar 3rd 2009 2:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/@Thizzle
@ R

You are all correct.]]>Mar 3rd 2009 2:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/Mar 3rd 2009 5:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/
People need to read the whole article before overreacting!]]>Mar 3rd 2009 6:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/
Apple is very good at taking functions away from technologies. Who needs USB ports, or removable battery, or optical drive....????

Just for good measure, apple will jack up the price so people will not think they are getting an inferior product.

Typical of Apple.]]>Mar 3rd 2009 10:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/Mar 4th 2009 4:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/Mar 3rd 2009 9:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/Mar 3rd 2009 10:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/Mar 3rd 2009 1:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/Mar 3rd 2009 2:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/Mar 4th 2009 4:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/


EXCEL no longer FTW on standard mac's]]>Mar 3rd 2009 9:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/Mar 3rd 2009 10:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/Mar 3rd 2009 10:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/Mar 3rd 2009 10:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/Mar 3rd 2009 10:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/]]>Mar 3rd 2009 10:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/Mar 3rd 2009 10:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/Mar 3rd 2009 11:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/
If you disagree you can take this 234872x14233x9879234 blob of digits and shove it.]]>Mar 3rd 2009 1:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/
also have a 17", amen to wishing the numeric pad built in. as a CAD user, it's far and away the easiest way to enter coordinates.]]>Mar 3rd 2009 3:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/
Then put the mouse on the left. Learned to do this when I was playing with CAD as a teenager; left hand on the digitizer puck, and right hand on the ten-key for numeric input. (My left hand is actually more dexterous with a mouse than my right, though I'm right-handed, because of practice.)

I've kept it since then, even though I use the keypad substantially less these days. My spaceball 6dof controller is now to the right, and it's just a joy using the spaceball with a mouse. (Unfortunately, I don't have much to _do_ with them, just playing around with them.) Normally pointing is just as easy and intuitive, and FPSes are no problem, after remapping keys around IJKL instead of WASD.]]>Mar 3rd 2009 5:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/
I hate the shallow, laptop-like keyboards on Macs. I like some depth to my keys. Next thing you know, Apple already only has 1-button mouses, but in another year it will probably eliminate reduce the button count on mouses too.]]>Mar 4th 2009 2:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/Mar 3rd 2009 9:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/Mar 3rd 2009 10:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/Mar 3rd 2009 9:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/Seems like a cost cutting method.
]]>Mar 3rd 2009 11:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/
Really.

Don't you think that if you sharpened one of those edges, you'd be able to make a really really awesome axe?]]>Mar 3rd 2009 1:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/Mar 3rd 2009 8:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/
At least be clear that there's an option, rather than trying to hide it. Maybe there will be mass protests at apple stores with customers wielding numberpadless keyboards as weapons.]]>Mar 3rd 2009 9:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/
I still use the numpad all the time, so as long as they still sell one, I think we'll be ok.

This one sounds a lot like all the folks working to eliminate the Caps Lock key...secret Apple plot to remove the numpad from our memories?

Just kidding.]]>Mar 3rd 2009 9:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/Mar 3rd 2009 1:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/
What's more bothersome is why they keep changing the functions associated with each F key. On my relatively new MacBook the volume keys are mapped to F3-F5 and Expose and Dashboard are mapped to F9-F12.
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I have decided that you either have extremely terrible hand-eye coordination or you're approximately 10 inches wide from shoulder to shoulder. ]]>Mar 3rd 2009 10:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/Mar 3rd 2009 10:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/Mar 3rd 2009 11:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/
That's definitely what I told her too.]]>Mar 3rd 2009 2:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/Mar 3rd 2009 10:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-axes-the-numeric-keypad-on-imacs-standard-wired-keyboard/Mar 3rd 2009 10:56AM