fluff - Do you use a keyboard with a 10-key pad?

I don’t do much number crunching but always use the num-pad on my laptop and desktop and would miss it. I’ve adjusted with phones and tablets but given the option I would still get it on a keyboard.

I love the ten key pad. I was really good at it. At my previous job, I used it to enter numbers by the thousands. It was also my best skill in high school when I took "Office Machines." Yeah, the 80's were good. I do not have one now and the numbers across the top make me hunt and peck.

katlady

I think if you are accustomed to using it, you will miss it VERY MUCH.
DH can continue to ignore it, but I think you should get a keyboard with the numbers as you are the one who will use the number pad and miss it if it is missing.

My home laptop and work desktop both have it. I have a different laptop that I use for Quickbooks and other financial things for our church, but it doesnt' have a number keypad and I hate it! If I know I'm going to be doing a lot of work, I'll do it at home where I can hook up to a wireless keyboard (and a larger screen too). I'm getting better at using the numbers above the letters, but I have a hard time finding the period button without stopping and looking for it.

When I had to get a new laptop for work last year, the laptops they were ordering were the smaller ones that do not have the keypad on the right. I had to get approval from my boss's boss to get the bigger (more expensive) one with the keypad. I LOVE having the keypad, it's so much quicker if you have to type a lot of numbers (which I do for work). My boss said to me the other day that she regrets not getting the same one that I did.

My personal MacBook doesn't have a keypad, and I miss it. Luckily I don't need to type numbers as much as I do for work. 

So my answer is..... if I had the option of a keypad, I would get one, even for my personal use. But if it was a lot more expensive, I could live without it, but not for work.

I had to choose other because some of my keyboards have it and some don’t. The mechanical keyboard for DH’s desktop computer has it and I use it all the time for office work and entering invoices. I don’t have it on my MacBook or on my HP/Windows laptops, but I also don’t tend to need one for what I do on those computers. I had it on my old desktop Mac’s slimline keyboard. I loved that keyboard but don’t really need it anymore.

I always use the number pad when needed.

My laptop doesn't have one, but I use them all the time when available.
I also have a 10-key both at home and at the office

I worked in an accounting office at a large hotel a bazillion years ago. I need a number pad!

Also, I use the number pad on my PC to type with diacritical marks in non-English languages. I don't like waiting while I hold the key down on my Macbook for accents. I'm faster with the number pad on my PC.

At work I use it all the time for number crunching. I can do it without looking, which freaks out my colleagues. My laptop at home hasn't got one but I rarely do number crunching at home and I don't miss it.

Any time I type numbers I use it. I miss it on the one that doesn't have it.

I don't really like typing on a laptop. So unless it is try on my lap or I don't have room, I have a wireless keyboard with the 10 key.
If size is a problem, that could be one idea