I can tell you that numpad commandor is truly wonderful, and I am so glad I invested in a full keyboard. I know it's not that practical for mac book users so much, but if you're going to have an external device, you may want to consider it. Thanks, Naama On 26 Jul 2011, at 10:12, Missy Hoppe wrote:
> Agreed! I'd be so happy if my macbook pro had a numpad. When I was first > considering a macbook purchase, I was originally > planning to get a 17 inch model. Thank God I went to an apple store first and > saw that the keyboard on the 13 inch and 17 > inch models was essentially identical: no numpad. I wouldn't mind slightly > smaller keys if they could give us a numpad, or at > least the six-pack that is on PC keyboards: insert, delete, home, end, pageup > and pagedown. I did buy a separate numpad, > which is supposedly Apple brand, but it doesn't seem to work very well. > Either that or I just don't fully understand how to > make use of the numpad commander. Anyway, I have the numpad and intend to > make use of it if/when I ever set up VM fusion and > am running windows. > Missy > > -----Original Message----- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mary Otten > Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 12:57 AM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Why use a TrackPad? > > Hi David, > In my opinion, because the small apple keyboard lacks the control key on the > right side, it makes typing certain vo key > combinations, such as the commonly used voa, or vo f, kind of a pain.I > suppose one could use the keyboard commander and the > right option key plus letters on the left hand to accomplish these things, or > purchase a numeric keypad and use the num pad > commander. But if you have an macbook pro already, you have a track pad. So > I'm not sure why you'd want to buy another one. I > think a numeric keypad would greatly enhance the MBP, since it would open up > the full range of num pad commander keys to you. > > > Mary > > Mary Otten > motte...@gmail.com > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
