David Pogue, New York Times technology columnist and CBS news correspondent, just posted an entry on his blog letting us know that his a reader’s make new MacBook shipped with a keyboard sans the Num Lock key and the numeric keypad (the tiny digits on some keys towards the left side of the keyboard that allow you to enter those numbers whether Num Lock is switched on).

So quiet was that change

that even support personnel that man the AppleCare telephone support lines were befuddled when Mr. Pogue contacted them. They had received no info about Apple planning to put that change into effect.

Before you chime in with the opinion that Mr. Pogue might just have a flawed unit, however, let me inform you that Apple PR personnel have confirmed to him that it is an intentional change […]

Orginal post by Aayush Arya