Whiteboard sticker for your laptop • Hacker News Board

Re: Whiteboard sticker for your laptop

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Post by macspoofing » Sun, Jan 29, 2017, 2:05 PM UTC

scrollaway wrote: post #80

macspoofing wrote: post #73

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>I think this is a really good idea Is it? Either you're looking at the whiteboard or at the screen. If the laptop is open, you can push it closed if you write on the back. If it is closed, you don't want to press too hard lest you damage the screen. Why not just use a piece of paper?

Okay, is there some dissonance I'm not picking up on here in this thread? The item is sitting at 220+ votes, at the top of HN right now and looking at the timeline, it appears the only reason this is on sale is because people begged the author to sell them. And in the thread... a bunch of people suggesting "Why not just DIY?", "Why not paper?", "It's useless on the back" etc. This is obviously a popular item. Maybe s…

Healthy skepticism is also warranted.

But you bring up a good point. Should the primary point of these kinds of threads be about giving props and praising the startup/service/product or should criticism and skepticism be allowed in as well.

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I actually like it as product to personalize your laptop, as opposed to something to help your productivity.

Re: Whiteboard sticker for your laptop

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Post by component » Sun, Jan 29, 2017, 2:31 PM UTC

felipebueno wrote: post #148

dhimes wrote: post #142

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Why is this being downvoted? Is it incorrect? If not it seems useful.

Staingate is a real thing and @achow's comment is correct and is very useful and that's probably what is happening with @component's mbp.

Sadly, yes it is "staingate"

Did a bit more digging and found a site [1] which has a gallery of affected MBP, showing the different levels of "staingate"

[1] http://staingate.org

Re: Whiteboard sticker for your laptop

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Post by nomel » Sun, Jan 29, 2017, 8:37 PM UTC

tedmiston wrote: post #92

sumitgt wrote: post #34

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But, in that case, how would it be different from just drawing on my Surface with my surface pen? It's kinda exactly what you need.

One upside of the Boogie Board approach is trivial battery usage.

I've found they're extremely fragile though. I can't imagine it would hold up in a backpack, without a hard cover.

Re: Whiteboard sticker for your laptop

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Post by King-Aaron » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 5:27 AM UTC

We used to make whiteboards at a printing company I worked for. It was mainly just white SAV (self adhesive vinyl) with a laminate over the top.

Ten dollars is an awful lot to pay for that, when you're talking about just a laptop size. You'd be looking at much less than a dollar in materials.

Edit: Though the fella obviously recognises this, and has a DIY on the page... And I can see people buying them for the convenience element. Still though...

Re: Whiteboard sticker for your laptop

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Post by cr0sh » Wed, Feb 01, 2017, 12:23 AM UTC

I_am_tiberius wrote: post #130

cr0sh wrote: post #40

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I hope by "whiteboard" you meant a 4x8 sheet of melamine bathroom/kitchen tile underlay sheet - and not one of the more expensive kind with the fancy aluminum borders (which, if you wanted to replicate those, you could find the parts in the hardware aisle of the home improvement store)...?

No unfortunately I bought one of those expensive ones.

Well - maybe next time?

The 4x8 sheets of melamine backer board is cheap, cheap, cheap! Where I currently work, we have 80 linear feet of the stuff on our walls in our dev area (held up with nails and construction adhesive). It isn't fancy, but my employer believes more in results than being "impressive" (plus, we don't get any clients back here anyhow).