I fired up my old SE30 last night to have a go at Sargon IV. What
a goddam beautiful keyboard that has, the neat one you refer
to...
On my present one on the G4, the "number pad lock" positioned one
is much more useful, it turns sound down.
I find I very rarely use the function keys and almost never the number
pad even though I've had computers with them for years.
I've just never got into the way of it. I touch type and so those extra
keys are all feel a mile away and irrelevant.
Even when I'm using the calculator I still use the numbers across the
top rather than the number pad because I touch type.
Personally I'd quite like it if Apple produced a keyboard like that on
the SE30 for the contemporary computers because it would suit me very
well.
In most things on the Mac I am very contemporary however, I like the
"right click", the scroll wheel on the mouse and I am extremely fond of
OS X and (unlike you) very much like the Dock, but all the extra keys
on the keyboard I would not miss if they were removed