Complaint about laptop keyboards

I don't like how laptops leave open, unused space below the keyboards.  I prefer my old TRS-80 Model 100 in that regard. (Model 100 also had good battery life.) I've been told people like the empty space to rest their hands on.  But typewriters didn't have any such space.  I will admit that as someone who "hunts and pecks" I don't hold my hands the same way a touch typist does. (Like a numeric keypad a touch pad/trackpad would best be placed to the right of the keyboard.)