I don't understand why System 76 keyboards for their higher end laptops include a numeric keypad. Doesn't seem worth the downside of narrowing keys that I'll predominantly use. Is there much demand for numeric keypads that aren't better served with an external USB addition? Is it because the internals or screen need the extra width anyway and they're filling in what would be unused space?
This is the reason I won't consider most of their laptops. I understand they use an oem and the oem doesn't give a shit about design, usability, ergonomics, or practicality. That's why it's like this. Most laptop vendors simply don't give a fuck about design or quality. Making unusable laptops is the norm. You can't expect to have a reasonable explanation of something no one has given a second's thought to. This is why people like Apple although they have adopted mostly the same stance nowadays.
To nitpick on Apple in the keyboard realm, I've never understood Apple's decision to make arrow keys half the size of other keys, presumably to fit them into the corner. I use them significantly more than most other keys and I'd much rather sacrifice the right shift key width to fit them all in as normal. It's been at least a decade of this travesty.
Actually the 2016 to early 2019 mbpros (and maybe airs) had the full size keys. People generally hated then because they are hard to pick out by touch. But you can grab one if you don't mind getting a keyboard that will likely break and has no escape key as a trade-off.
I don't understand why System 76 keyboards for their higher end laptops include a numeric keypad. Doesn't seem worth the downside of narrowing keys that I'll predominantly use. Is there much demand for numeric keypads that aren't better served with an external USB addition? Is it because the internals or screen need the extra width anyway and they're filling in what would be unused space?