So why did Apple cramp up the iMac keyboard?

[mrsir2009]

Why not just make this keyboard into a wireless one:

The arrows are half size and there's no numeric keypad... Did they have to do that? I mean, its perfectly fine on the MBPs, because they're laptops and they don't have much space for a keyboard. But why exactly do they need to make a desktop keyboard so compact? So it'd look good on the Apple website?



I'm pretty tempted to buy one of the keyboards in the pic above.

 

[richard.mac]

users were requesting smaller wireless keyboards as they are easier to move around and Apple likes minimalism.

i use the wired keyboard for the bigger size and numpad.

 

[mrsir2009]

users were requesting smaller wireless keyboards as they are easier to move around and Apple likes minimalism.

i use the wired keyboard for the bigger size and numpad.

I wish I'd opted for the wired one on the Apple website.

 

[vincenz]

They probably did it for aesthetic reasons. It looks better without the numpad, that's all. Plus they figured that regular users don't even use the numpad (on a regular basis) anyway.