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Free Software Sticker Book - replace the OS/processor stickers on your computer
- antidaily 17y agoNice idea but only about 1% are worthy of sticking on a machine. Seriously, who is sticking a Drupal sticker on their laptop??
- j_baker 17y agoI suppose there could be someone out there willing to put a Drupal sticker on their server...
- josefresco 17y agoAnswer: Proud Drupal developers (not the washed up cranky types)
- swombat 17y agoI haven't owned a computer that came with stickers on it for about 3 years now. I certainly have no intention of polluting my MacBook Pro's perfect exterior with a crappy home-made sticker now.
- ZeroGravitas 17y agoNo removable stickers please, they're déclassé, just the glowing corporate logo thanks.
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- swombat 17y ago1) The glowing apple is highly aesthetic, unlike most of those fugly stickers. 2) The product is designed with the logo in mind. It's not an afterthought. It's part of the product's design. 3) Most laptops of other brands carry the brand of the laptop maker in a prominent place too. E.g. Dell laptops: http://www.treehugger.com/pink-dell-laptop.jpg http://www.treehugger.com/pink-dell-laptop.jpg HP laptops: http://www.laptopsarena.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/hp-business-laptop2.jpg http://www.laptopsarena.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/hp-bu... Sony laptop lid: http://regmedia.co.uk/2007/08/07/sony_tz11_1.jpg http://regmedia.co.uk/2007/08/07/sony_tz11_1.jpg 4) In addition, most other brands of laptop also repeat that brand name inside the laptop, after you open the lid. The only brand I can see on my MBP once I open the lid is "Macbook Pro" in discreet silver letters under the screen. There's not even any noticeable writing underneath the laptop. Nor does it even say "Apple" explicitly anywhere. 5) In addition to all this branding from the laptop manufacturer (which exists on the macbook pro too, though it's easily argued that the apple branding is way more tasteful than most other brands), on top of that they also stick god damned "Intel Inside" and "Windows Vista ready" and god knows what other stickers. Claiming that somehow the Macbook Pro is inferior because it has no removable stickers is completely stupid. If you want a laptop that's largely free of stupid logos and stickers, get a Mac.
- psranga 17y agoAm I missing the sarcasm (I'm serious, not being sarcastic myself)? Unless I'm mistaken all Macs have a prominent glowing logo that's visible at all times.
- jws 17y agoYes, but they are well made and in colors that coordinate with the computer. Stickers are in whatever eye popping nightmare color scheme the marketing people dreamt up for web/print ads, are generally unintelligible without a magnifier, are cheaply produced and show it, and are glued down with some substance whose residue yields to none of: water isopropyl alcohol methanol acetone methyl ethyl ketone toluene mineral spirits ethyl benzene xylene acetic acid diethylene glycol monomethyl ether nonylphenol polyethoxylate ethylbenzene It took me 15 minutes to remove the stickers from the last Gateway I bought. I finally resorted to mechanical means, and still left a ghostly outline of one of sticker. In retrospect I should have checked that the machine worked first before I bothered to desticker it.
- jrockway 17y agoI use a very sharp knife and citrus degreaser. Some stickers on a recent eeepc were quite difficult to kill with just degreaser, but the knife peeled them right off. Then a few minutes of polishing with a microfiber cloth and optical cleaner got the residue off. I would kill for a stickerless-laptop with Debian unstable pre-installed. That would easily be worth $100 to me.
- jrockway 17y agoI certainly have no intention of polluting my MacBook Pro's perfect exterior with a crappy home-made sticker now. How else can you hide the Apple logo on the back?
- swombat 17y agoI tend to look at the front of the laptop while I'm working on it. The logo on the back of the lid doesn't bother me that much from this angle.
- duck 17y agoIs there anyone that puts more stickers on a laptop than Sony? I count seven of them.
- duck 17y agoOkay, just removed all of them. I guess in the year I owned this one I never really noticed them until this article. Once I noticed them they started driving me crazy.
- ascuttlefish 17y agoI had three stickers on my HP laptop, which I promptly removed. This is more a curiosity than something I'd actually stick on my computer, though the Stallman sticker in Book I is rather hilarious.
- goatforce5 17y agoCan I have a CUPS sticker to put on my sticker? [Insert Xzibit pic here.]
- psranga 17y agoRight on time. I've always believed that "you are not your f------ computer", but after Section 331, I am just about to print a penguin logo and stick it my computer lid.
- jrockway 17y agoI like repurposing the existing stickers. For example, my Kindle has an Atom processor inside, or so the sticker says, anyway. My laptop has a sticker with the tech support phone number for Suntory beer, and my desktop has a sticker advising the reader to not operate the machine when it is under water. When I got a VoIP phone, it came with a bunch of stickers that said "this device cannot call 911 during a power failure". I attached those to various household objects -- it's true that my alarm clock can't call 911 during a power failure, after all. I have an Intel SSD on the way, which apparently comes with an "SSD Inside!" sticker. Might have to stick that to my bike.
- astine 17y agoIt looked for a moment like they were actually selling a book of these stickers. A second glance showed me that I was wrong. Anyway, I imagine a book of stickers like this would be a make a neat gift for a FOSS fan even if he didn't actually put any of them on his computer.