I’ve been learning it recently on my laptop. Use the Emulate Numpad option in the settings. The other thing I’ve done is remapped ; to numpad-/ (I think, whatever it is that allows me to focus on an object).

I suspect that ultimately you’ll just want a full keyboard because there are a bunch of variations that are probably useful to power users.

The other thing is that my MacBook doesn’t really want to render anything without also burning the house down, so I’m looking to build a desktop machine anyway.