A letter I sent to the macbook feedback team on apple.com
*smirk*
Greetings! Thanks for quality apple products. My switch to mac systems happened three years ago with my hubby. To date we have two mac minis, one 24″ imac, a 6yr-old powerbook and a 4yr-old macbook pro. Both laptops were accquired through hardware trades with other mac users, but they’ve become integral to our off-the-desk activities and when visiting freinds/doing out-of-the-home work.
I’m practically drooling over the Macbook air. One of my personal concerns though is being a one-handed user – that is, one of a relatively minor percentage of users, but still looking to cast my vote in the ballotbox on the subject of keyboard design.
Namely? The function button. I’m a right-handed user, and while using a full keyboard (the apple KB that came with the imac solved all my stretching-my-fingers-across-the-keyboard-to-make-an @-symbol woes) is just great, I’m sunk on several degrees by the function and lack of an option key on the right side of the keyboard.
Let’s see.. My fenininely small thumbpad-to-pinkypad stretch is just tooo short to make an @ symbol. I use a fork to hit it when I need it. That’s right, le fork. 
the function key is absolutely useless to me. It has to be held down to get any use out of the embedded numberpad. Normally I can just dance around this without too much annoyance, seeing as all that’s accessible by using the number-and-symbol keys available over the qwerty layout, but…
I miss my Page-Up and Page-Down keys. Yes, that’s right, I use them an awful lot, especially in text programs, web browsing, study and other applications. They they are winking at me in miniature on my handy arrow keys, but so help me Mister Jobs, I can’t use them. The home and end keys are similarly virgins.
A freind stopped by a few weeks ago to show off a glossy new PC-laptop they’d just purchased.. and right there on my dining room table there was a glorious full numberpad, somehow smooched right up next to the qwerty-goodness. They’d managed by some miracle of design to offer the unthinkable.. I think that’s called a 104-key layout or something.
Yes, I digress.
Could you guys play with your standard laptop keyboard layout a bit? Make it a little easier to hit those astronomically-spaced combinations (the holy @) and make beautiful music with Home/Page-Up/Page-down/End?
This writer would be very greatful.
-Jeanette