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Re: Preserving Laptop Stickers on MacBooks

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Post by magduf » Fri, Jul 12, 2019, 4:58 PM UTC

Kaibeezy wrote: post #244

aflag wrote: post #216

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There's at least two other options. Once, a friend of mine came from a conference, he was really excited about his stickers and gave me one. I thought it'd make him happy if I sticked it to my laptop, and so I did. Some time ago a work colleague went on this rant about how stickers are dumb. Only to find a sticker on his laptop when he got back from lunch. He thought it was funny and it became a running joke for a wh…

My kid stuck a white Apple sticker dead center on my X220. Funny for a minute. When I peeled it off, it left a ghost apple in residue (or maybe a clean spot) that’s resisted further removal attempts. My favorite hammer has a Windows (3.1x) sticker on one side and a 1st gen Intel Inside on the other.

Those "Designed for Microsoft Windows" stickers are best placed on trash cans.

Re: Preserving Laptop Stickers on MacBooks

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Post by jaclaz » Fri, Jul 12, 2019, 5:48 PM UTC

archagon wrote: post #313

jaclaz wrote: post #248

Only for the record, there are already people selling laptop wraps. leather and wood: https://www.rvinyl.com/Laptop-Wraps Various skins, already tailored for specific models: https://mightyskins.com/pages/laptop And you can even create your own design: https://mightyskins.com/collections/custom-laptop Another one (Macbook): https://dassidecal.com/collections/macbook-skins-cases And yet another one: https://www.decalg…

Any transparent ones, or ones that match the color of the laptop exactly?

Hmmm. Like: https://www.bestskinsever.com/laptop-skin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGGWWIwio-4

Re: Preserving Laptop Stickers on MacBooks

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Post by craigmcnamara » Fri, Jul 12, 2019, 6:40 PM UTC

citeguised wrote: post #166

craigmcnamara wrote: post #111

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I have googly eyes on mine. Not only can I definitely find my computer in a sea of identical MacBooks, people across from me at meetings seem to enjoy them.

You don‘t seem to be the only one https://devlids.com/lids/stevenjudd

There are dozens of us!

Re: Preserving Laptop Stickers on MacBooks

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Post by gaebn » Fri, Jul 12, 2019, 9:31 PM UTC

hk2001 wrote: post #338

gaebn wrote: post #328

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I was accusing others for being insincere, not narcissistic. Guess you've read only the quoted part of my message, hope the reason is not some sticker on the inside blocking the view.

You were accusing them of being both. Now who is being insincere?

I have nothing against being narcissistic, provided you are honest about it. If I say that you are trying too hard with your "No u!" game, will you accuse me of trying too hard?

Re: Preserving Laptop Stickers on MacBooks

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Post by magduf » Mon, Jul 15, 2019, 2:31 PM UTC

esmi wrote: post #168

numlock86 wrote: post #164

In my company I introduced stickers on working machines. We have a lot of developers with different skillsets spread over the entire campus. There are many departments sharing similar technology stacks and needed skills. This helps people to get together if they have questions or ideas they want to verify or share with others not in their department for example. Got a problem with a particular thing in Erlang, Redis,…

Reminds me of Merit Badges. :) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merit_badge_(Boy_Scouts_of_A...

Not exactly. The nice thing about Merit Badges is that they're standardized: they're all the same size and shape, and they're not very large (around 1.25" in diameter IIRC).

Also, when you put your merit badges on your sash, they're placed in an orderly fashion, 3 per row. They aren't just slapped on there randomly, some partially covering others, oriented in different directions, etc. With stickers on laptops, they always just look like a big jumble.

If this company came up with merit badge-like stickers for all these technologies and had people place them on their laptops in even rows, oriented the same direction, then I would be for it. But the way I see people use stickers on laptops now, it just looks trashy.

Re: Preserving Laptop Stickers on MacBooks

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Post by magduf » Mon, Jul 15, 2019, 2:35 PM UTC

lozf wrote: post #319

Stratoscope wrote: post #134

I have devoted my life to removing stickers from all my computers. The first thing I do with a new ThinkPad is remove the Intel and Lenovo stickers from the palmrest. (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…

Our old toilet had a "Designed for Windows" sticker from an old ThinkPad, and the current one has "Intel Inside".

I used to put "Designed for Windows" stickers on the trashcans at work.

Re: Preserving Laptop Stickers on MacBooks

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Post by betandr » Wed, Jul 17, 2019, 11:55 AM UTC

I like this idea although I use vinyl stickers on my MacBook and then, before needing to sell it, I peel them off again. They leave very little residue which I clean with some isopropyl alcohol and they prevent the case from being scratched because they're covering it. For me there's not much difference between a vinyl sheet then stickers or just the stickers themselves.