My japanese neighbour gets her internet from us via wifi and when she recently couldn't connect, showed her sexy mac book.
The keyboard was the coolest thing for me about it.
http://images.appleinsider.com/macbook-8.jpg
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Hardware/Developer_Notes/Macintosh_CPUs-G4/12inchPowerBookG4/art/040945021715_08.gif
It's just so typological, letters, not functional keys. But can you work without the numtab? Can one use these small arrows without breaking his hands?

I would like to reply but I find the fact you have a japanese neighbour repulsive.

why?

I don't get your attraction with the faux numeric keypad.  The Dell I'm on has this, and it works the same way.