Yes, agitated. Caps locking words, not reading to the end of my replies, attacking me rather than my point, etc. You found a point you think you can call hypocritical and keep hammering on my integrity for having made it despite my efforts to explain further. I could have just called you a troll as you did me, but I chose "agitated" instead-- I honestly don't think you're trolling, I think that your emotions got the better of you.
So let me address that point first in the hopes that you'll read further to why I think this part of the argument is unnecessary. You're bothered that I talked about the tray being "big" and the keyboard being "tiny". Perhaps I chose my words imprecisely, or was overly succinct, or god forbid, whimsical. Mea culpa. In my defense, however, those weren't the only words I wrote on the subject-- you just chose to ignore the rest. It is not the physical size that concerns me, it is the fact that it takes a product that was designed to sit a certain way and adds material to it. Maybe saying that I'm using the older wireless keyboard (with number pad) is evidence that I'm a super-duper hypocrite complaining about the size of one thing while using something bigger-- or maybe it's evidence that my concern isn't merely the size and you're missing my point. I trust Apple's design; I trust 3rd party molded plastic less. I don't mind the keyboard being bigger if that size isn't counter to ergonomics. In truth, I think a larger keyboard is more ergonomic. The Amazon reviews, and the link I provided, however suggest that the added plastic of the Clique does affect the ergonomics of the trackpad and won't even hold the number pad.
Let me repeat that: it won't even hold the number pad. So can we stop arguing about that solution?
And yes, there are other ways of attaching other third party number pads to Apple keyboards-- including putting a $30 film on a $60 trackpad and using a $30 piece of plastic to bind them together with a $60 keyboard as you suggest. I've tried some of them, and found them lacking ergonomically or functionally. I also find it expensive.
If you'd bothered to look into the solutions you suggest, as I, the purported troll did, or just read my responses and links before attacking me for not liking them, you'd notice that all but that buttonless plastic film on trackpad solution won't work because they grab the trackpad by the battery bar-- where the Belkin has a lump.
There are also solutions from other manufacturers.
Or the solution I'm currently using.
Let me repeat that too: the solution I'm currently using. I've replied several times that I have a wireless keyboard with a number pad and yet you still accuse me of complaining, trolling, and not seriously looking for a solution. I think it's because you're agitated and you're not reading my full response past the point you think you can attack me.
All of this argument seems to overlook the point of this entire thread: Apple appears to be preparing to announce a new keyboard that we've only seen a sketch of the back of. I would be more likely to buy it if that keyboard has a number pad attached. I'm sorry if that opinion, or my willingness to discuss peoples thinking a bit deeper offends you, but there it is.
