Morning the Home and End

OK, so all the wierless keyboard apple do are the slimline type and even the third party ones have gone this direction. There do not have numberic keypads, whitch I can live without, but they also seem to of droped the Home and End keys! What I wanted to know is who decided that we did not want Home and End keys. I am posting this here because recently I had t get a new keyboard and it does not have End or Home, whitch are both verry usefull in FCP7. What's goinbg on?
Ben

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fn left arrow is home.
fn right arrow is end.
Russ

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