Thoughts on Keyboard Design

From the ages of personal/business computing machine and Notebook/laptop designs, I guess keyboard is one of the most neglected part. Not sure how many manufacturers ever really given any thought on that.

At least customized laptops can be provided with options of keyboards. You have lots of choices on other aspects of laptop, then why not we have to bear with same-old fashined keyboard alone?

If the designer really run out of any changes....here my two pennies..

* CAPS LOCK - Its carried from typewriter design. How many people require ALL CAPS typing on a laptop?? We have sophisticated word processors these days which can easily do the job. Why the hell we still need this?

* NUM LOCK - I really forget when either me or my friends [ppl with computers for 20 hrs a day] last time use this key?

* Functional Keys - Albeit key board savvvy techies like keyboard navigations..but lots of functions can be programmed without functional keys.. can we save that space for other keys?

Lets hope, these matters for those who matter on laptop designs.