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AMD Hates Laptop Stickers As Much As You Do
pickens writes "David Pogue writes in the NY Times that when you buy a new Windows PC, it comes festooned with stickers on the palm rests: one for Windows, one for Skype, one for Intel, one for the laptop company, maybe an Energy Star sticker and so on. 'It's like buying a new, luxury car — and discovering that it comes with non-removable bumper stickers that promote the motor oil, the floor mat maker, the windshield-fluid company and the pine tree air freshener you have no intention of ever using,' writes Pogue. But the worst thing is that when you peel them off, they shred, leaving adhesive crud behind. 'When you've just spent big bucks on a laptop, should you really be obligated to spend the first 20 minutes trying to dissolve away the sticker goop with WD40?' But AMD has a solution. Starting next year, AMD will switch to new stickers that peel off easily, leaving no residue; after that, it's considering eliminating the sticker program altogether."
Try to remove that huge apple that says "I overpay my hardware" with WD40...
They have them on desktops too, even some monitors have obtrusive logos. One of the things that Apple got right with their computer products.
-- these are only opinions and they might not be mine.
... it's probably calculated into their cost / profit-margin.
My MacBook had nothing of the like. It just didn't.
"I use a Mac because I'm just better than you are."
but what about the other dozen stickers on the laptop?
I think you may have purchased a Nascar.
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That's why I buy Apple, I hate branding so much that I am happy to report it came out of the package without stickers marking my allegiance to one company or another. It also comes with this cool light on the back in a funny shape that's not really useful, but I'm sure I'll figure it out its purpose someday. It's really cool, you guys should try it.
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Right now my bamboo plant on my file cabinet is running an Intel Core i5 and Windows 7 based on the stickers.
~~ Behold the flying cow with a rail gun! ~~
The only downside for pure citrus orange oil is that your laptop may smell like oranges for days.
That's a downside?
It makes a certain black man get confused and think that there's a kid in trouble.
I peel them off and put them on other things. My Atari 2600 has Intel inside.
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Easy off stickers next year, and maybe, some time in the future, no stickers at all! And people say big corporations can't be nimble.
Read the EFF's Fair Use FAQ
"It's like buying a new, luxury car — and discovering that it comes with non-removable bumper stickers"
Funny, that's pretty much the same reason why I'll never consider getting a tattoo either.
Alex, I'll take keybindings not used by Emacs for $400....
Perhaps you could look at business laptops, generally they only come with 1 or 2 stickers
1 for the Chipset/Processor
other for the OS(If it was included)
and, removing the stickers on thinkpads is extremely easy, run Prime 95 + Furmark for 15-20 minutes, use TPFC to disable the fan. Soon the sticker area heats up enough that you can just peel it off with minimal residue..
And, its unlikely that a short burst of high temp's will damage the processor in any way
My kitchen garbage has been adorned with this sticker for over a decade.
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I prefer to use C4. I prefer the smell of almonds to oranges.
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Really? I read it 14 times, each time with a different voice, gradually getting faster and faster.
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It smells like victory.
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Damn.. not only does it make for great breakfast every morning, but it can help clean my gadgets too? This makes me wonder if you can legally marry peanut butter.
which is totally what she said
Nota Bene: You should not make a great breakfast with it after cleaning gadgets.
It's so much easier to say "Kids, don't try this at home."
make sure it's made from organic free-range babies.
Of course not! Try it in someone else's home, your shit is flammable.
What about after "marrying" it?
which is totally what she said
Blow dryer is the best. Melts the glue and no residue.
I was working in the lab once and need to remove some stickers. A colleague made your suggestion about a hair dryer. We didn't have a hair dryer, but we did have a heat gun (for shrink wrapping stuff). It turns out that a heat gun will melt your monitor about two seconds after it gets the stickers hot enough to slide off.
When the "Designed for Windows" sticker came off by itself after two years of using my ThinkPad, I put that sticker on my wall, next to the window.
What about his left C4?
I've got some foxglove growing out in my yard if you want to test that theory.. And if you survive that, there's a local amanita variant I can probably find without too much trouble if I go looking for it.
Nose oil.
No, seriously.
Peel off as much of the sticker as you can, preferably until there's just a schmutz of glue left, then rub your finger on the side of your nose and use that to loosen the rest of the glue. After a little rubbing, you can wipe it all away with a cloth or towel.
It's free, all-natural, always handy, and something you want to get rid of anyway.
Cause their shit is inflammable?
I peel them off carefully then stick creatively.
My waste bin is designed for Windows XP.
I have a Gigabyte brand microwave oven.
My TI-82 calculator sports an Intel Dual Core CPU.
The flush tank has Intel Inside.
My kitchen clock can be overclocked jumper-free.
And I have a NVidia VHS video player.
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These days most of the babies used to make baby oil are kept in cages and fed a genetically-engineered diet which is designed to greatly boost the production of the fats which most of the oil is squeezed from. So it's not really "natural" anymore; as they saying goes: garbage in, garbage out.
If you can, try to find baby oil which is squeezed from organic free range babies. It has a much higher quality due to the more varied diets and additional nutrients they get from natural foraging behaviour; however it's a fair bit more expensive and many stores don't carry it at all. I think the average free range baby yields about 3 litres of baby oil when squeezed; you get around 10L from a battery-farm baby.
if my shit is flammable then I've got bigger problems