I almost never enter tons of numbers, so having a numpad isn&#x27;t very useful for me. Especially since the fact that you have to leave home row means that there&#x27;s an initial penalty to using the numpad that makes it significantly less useful for sequences of numbers &lt;4-5 in length.<p>Not having a numpad means my keyboard takes up significantly less space on my desk and means mousing is more ergonomic; not having one on my laptop makes it much prettier and lets me have nice speaker grills.<p>I suspect that this is true of the vast majority of people, except maybe accountants, data entry folks, and some scientists. But I generally do finance, math, and programming just fine without a numpad.