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Many to most typical laptop stickers don't advertise companies. Also, if you stick one over the glowing apple, you disable some rather obnoxious advertising.
New MacBook Pros no longer glow!
Exactly.
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'Obnoxious zealots' is probably a more common perception of these people
what a weird thing to get hung up about
At face value, yes, but the obnoxious zealotry often has further implications. I mean, how much of the technology baked into your average web project these days is chosen out of fashion rather than utility? Definitely too much.
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#223the most interested part of this article was that, people are actually worrying about sticking a sticker on their laptop. I would never resale a laptop with my hard drive on it, and nowadays most laptops (and definitely all macbooks have soldered hard disks)
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That's as many reasons as you can come up with. That doesn't mean there aren't more. For example, my reason is to give my laptop more grip so it doesn't slip out of my hands. Nobody can imagine everyone's needs.
You don't need stickers for grip (and fact they're not ideal for that anyway). You can do it with a laptop cover (still a sticker, but not of the kind we're talking here), tape, and other things. Still, sure you can come up with a few more reasons (hence my "pretty much it"). But I don't think you can came with 10 reasons, much less "thousands", never mind millions. And 95%+ would still fall in the categories mention…
> You don't need stickers for grip (and fact they're not ideal for that anyway)
You don't need to eat chocolate cake for sustenance (and in fact it's not ideal for that anyway).
It's a minor practical benefit to having a sticker collection on there, which is different to covers, or tape, or other things.
There probably aren't millions of discreet reasons, but there are millions of people with their own reasons, even if they largely overlap, the rationale will be slightly different.
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#225It's sad to see that in this thread most people jump in conclusions because they only assume there is only one reason why people put stickers on laptops. Without giving it much thought you place people in a 'category' that only exists in your mind. There are a million reasons why people put stickers on laptops. And also a million why people don't. I guess it's best to keep an open mind and don't think you know why pe…
> There are a million reasons why people put stickers on laptops. And also a million why people don't. Well, let's not get carried away. There are a handful of reasons at best: 1) they feel the laptop is drab/empty and want to decorate it 2) they are fans of an artist/band and want to promote it 3) they want to broadcast the world the company they work for and/or their choice of frameworks and tools 4) they want to c…
I put stupid stickers on mine to mock people who put stickers on their laptops. And also i love recursion.
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How else do you identify your mbp going through TSA. Call me laptop roulette paranoid.
It's the one next to my shoes and my wallet.
I think that's how pretty much everybody does it
Though every MacBook has some small details that can be picked up even if "identical"
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#227This article could be the definition of "first world problem"
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#228I used a flat white Dbrand skin and put my stickers on top. My stickers have 100% coverage: https://twitter.com/rxcs/status/888214143097987072 . No problems after 2 years aside from some slight fading of the colors on the reflective stickers. If OP is in this thread, check out 3M 1080 (or newer) series. It is used on cars, designed to not bubble or leave residue, and comes in clear.
That looks absolutely amazing!
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> I kept dropping a new-ish 15” they gave me as I often had to juggle things while getting in and out of heavily sprung doors. Why do you walk around with your laptop in your hands? For meetings? > IT hates it but they hate dented aluminum cases more. Even if it's a company issued laptop, what it's to IT whether you have stickers/tape or not?
Makes it harder to re-issue it out once you have left.
Aha. For shorter term employment makes sense. Usually in these hear parts the laptop will be deprecated/replaced before the employee (e.g. after 4-5 or so years).