Bonus feature: You can apply one of these to the back of your non-Mac laptop and pretend you have a Mac!
Preserving Laptop Stickers on MacBooks
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#32Maybe I read a little fast, but why only mention "MacBooks"? Wouldn't this system work for any laptop?
You could just use a clear vinyl and trim it to size before sticker bombing your laptop. Matte or gloss depending on your taste, and stick to the automotive ones for UV-resistance and lasting quality. I’ve been doing this for years on work laptops using a 3M clear vinyl wrap.
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#33This is brilliant! Kind of a coincidence, I've been thinking about something like this a week ago. I wonder how well this would work on a ThinkPad.
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#34This is nifty, but I don't really see why this beats using a case. I've been switching laptop cases for a while (actually need to get a new one) and I put them up on my wall when I'm done.
Checkout a photo - https://imgur.com/a/nWz95Ex
They're like $15 on Amazon and I honestly don't mind that people can see them since the laptop is going to be covered in stickers and won't be looking like something off the shelf anyway.'
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#35Oil, peanut butter, or what I used is "HG stikkerverwijderaar" (I don't know the English word or brand name) which I bet is just turpentine.
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#36This is nifty, but I don't really see why this beats using a case. I've been switching laptop cases for a while (actually need to get a new one) and I put them up on my wall when I'm done. Checkout a photo - https://imgur.com/a/nWz95Ex They're like $15 on Amazon and I honestly don't mind that people can see them since the laptop is going to be covered in stickers and won't be looking like something off the shelf anyw…
I tried this with a transparent case but the result was kinda meh, made the macbook feel weird due to the way the case wraps around the screen to clip
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#37Or just buy Goo Gone https://googone.com/
Agreed. I really don’t see how removing stickers off an aluminum case is really that difficult. Even for the “bad” ones that leave residue there are plenty of products for this purpose that won’t damage the metal.
The idea is to keep the stickers when you have to change laptops or something, not keep your laptop clean when removing them
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#38I'd love this for a non-Mac laptop, as well.
I think that might work for certain popular brands - Dell XPSs certainly crossed my mind, as well as the Lenovo Thinkpads. Both are likely to have a vinyl equivalent available that could be used, although I'd want to thoroughly QC how the Thinkpad lid holds-up with the residue on removal.
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#39Has anyone ever tried this with ThinkPads, with the rubberized matte coating?
I was looking at the skins sold on eBay, and wondering whether they'd mar the coating. The old coatings hold up very nicely for over a decade, and I don't want the skin to react with the coating, nor to later leave behind an adhesive that can't be removed without ruining the coating.
I'm also wondering whether the skins could be transplanted, like if one laptop breaks in a hard-to-repair way, so you move your SSD and skin full of decals to the replacement laptop.
(I have an unapplied backlog of nerdy decals, to make the perfect social nerd cafe laptop out of a spare Coreboot X200. So long as being social doesn't mar the coating, because priorities.)
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#40I 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.