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Stickers are purely a way to identify your laptop in a sea of otherwise identical MacBook pros.
Stickers are purely an extension of one's ego.
Call me weirdo but I never jumped on the sticker wagon. I don't see the point of advertising companies for free. My support would be more in terms of using their services (paying, yes) than paying and also putting stickers on my laptop. Is just because fanatism or feeling proud of using something? I'm not trying to be jerk, but I never understood that movement.
How else do you identify your mbp going through TSA. Call me laptop roulette paranoid.
> * Resale - By putting stickers on my laptop, I am either going to have to try to remove them again once I come to selling it, lowering my resale price because the laptop isn’t in near pristine condition. > * Damage - There is a worry that some stickers may leave a horrible hard-to-remove residue, or maybe leave a discolouration to the aluminium. To which may be added a third - your Mac gets sent off for repair, but…
Even the SSD is soldered in now
(Tip: If you have a Swiss Army knife with the plastic toothpick, the flat point of that toothpick is a perfect tool for lifting a corner of a sticker.)
The one exception was when I realized I was using my late 2013 MacBook Pro in Windows more than in OS X. I thought it would be fun to turn it into a WinBook Pro, so I got a Windows 10 decal for it:
https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B014I1ICX8/
I lined it up just right so the machine lights up the Windows logo as if it had always been there.
I guess this wouldn't work so good on the new MacBooks...
Some keywords cones to mind based on my own feelings;
- software tribalism and identity signaling to peers. like a mini resumé.
- idealism and dreaming, the cool stuff I wish I was using (Who sticks a .NET logo there, right?)
- added uniqueness, my laptop is mine, my special tool, it is set up as an extention of my unique set of skills
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Stickers are purely an extension of one's ego.
No, this is what an naive outsider might think looking from the outside, thinking the “hipster” Mac users are just feeding ego, missing completely that they are only doing it so they don’t pick up someone else’s computer at work.
i would like to see some proper psychological research on why we put stickers and brands on our pretty and expensive laptops. Some keywords cones to mind based on my own feelings; - software tribalism and identity signaling to peers. like a mini resumé. - idealism and dreaming, the cool stuff I wish I was using (Who sticks a .NET logo there, right?) - added uniqueness, my laptop is mine, my special tool, it is set up…
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Why do you need a case for your laptop? I've never dropped a laptop in my life (I have tripped over cords before but the magsafe has saved me every time). Shit, I bought the very first iphone the day it came out and I haven't used a cased on any of my phones either and still have never broken anything despite dropping my phones every once in a while.
I'm also a no case person. I don't remember ever dropping my iPhones. But it is not for everyone. Once a friend took my phone to look at something and he dropped it, shattering the glass. I was more amazed that in its entirety of 3+ years, I never dropped the phone once but it slipped my friend's hand in just that few minutes. :-)
i would like to see some proper psychological research on why we put stickers and brands on our pretty and expensive laptops. Some keywords cones to mind based on my own feelings; - software tribalism and identity signaling to peers. like a mini resumé. - idealism and dreaming, the cool stuff I wish I was using (Who sticks a .NET logo there, right?) - added uniqueness, my laptop is mine, my special tool, it is set up…