TKL is basically the same as a laptop keyboard, which up until about 10-15 years ago always had a numpad overlaid on top of the letter keys below the 7, 8, & 9 keys and activated by pressing the NumLoc key. I’m guessing manufacturers stopped including the feature due to more and more non-technical users using laptops, and confusing themselves by accidentally turning on the NumLoc (business-oriented laptops often still have them). The image I linked to above is from a page explaining it on a website related to the once-popular “For Dummies” series of books & they have an example of what happens when you type with it off vs on.
First thing is an embedded numpad like every compact keyboard should have, and every laptop used to come with.
I like TKL so I don’t have to reach so far for my mouse.
TKL is basically the same as a laptop keyboard, which up until about 10-15 years ago always had a numpad overlaid on top of the letter keys below the 7, 8, & 9 keys and activated by pressing the NumLoc key. I’m guessing manufacturers stopped including the feature due to more and more non-technical users using laptops, and confusing themselves by accidentally turning on the NumLoc (business-oriented laptops often still have them). The image I linked to above is from a page explaining it on a website related to the once-popular “For Dummies” series of books & they have an example of what happens when you type with it off vs on.