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I 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 wi

by swombat 17y ago

I 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 ago
No removable stickers please, they're déclassé, just the glowing corporate logo thanks.
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- swombat 17y ago
  1) 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 ago
Am 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 ago
  Yes, 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 ago
    I 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 ago
I 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 ago
  I 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.
  - jrockway 17y ago
    And so stickers back there would bother you?
    - swombat 17y ago
      Stickers back there would still bother me because they tend to be ugly and, by definition, stuck on. But they'd bother me less than stickers at the front - which is where a lot of laptop makers stick their stickers.

by swombat 17y ago

I 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 ago

No removable stickers please, they're déclassé, just the glowing corporate logo thanks.

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swombat 17y ago
1) 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 ago

Am 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 ago
Yes, 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 ago
  I 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 ago

I 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 ago
I 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.
- jrockway 17y ago
  And so stickers back there would bother you?
  - swombat 17y ago
    Stickers back there would still bother me because they tend to be ugly and, by definition, stuck on. But they'd bother me less than stickers at the front - which is where a lot of laptop makers stick their stickers.