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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."

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  1. Re:buy a mac by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yes, but removing a bit of sticker residue from a palmrest is a lot easier than removing the smell of Steve Jobs' spent semen from a rectal cavity.

  2. Re:WD40 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Remove the Microsoft Windows 7 or Microsoft Windows Phone 7 sticker? I don't fucking think so. Why do you freetards insist on removing your noses despite your faces? Do you just tire of smelling your own bullshit? Microsoft Windows 7 and Microsoft Windows Phone 7 are superior to this freetard shit in every possible way and I proudly bear the stickers of their success on my computing devices. You people disgust me with your Lunix and Crabble puke. Stealing the fruits of the billions of dollars Microsoft Research has invested in producing the intellectual property that you dorks so cavalierly pilfer to inject into your Gnom and KED and Quark shit. You all disgust me. You people need to look into the mirror and reevaluate your lives.

  3. Re:Not on Mac? Really? by geminidomino · · Score: -1, Troll

    Apple makes money because people don't buy hardware specs, they buy form.

    Fixed that for you. Apple products have a recurring theme of "what we think you should be able to do." It's a bit lessened now on PCs, but hardly gone, and none of them certainly offer any MORE function than their Windows or Linux counterparts.

  4. Re:Not on Mac? Really? by ihatejobs · · Score: 0, Troll
    If you buy Apple, you are paying for your hardware and paying to get raped up the butt and apparently you love every minute of it.

    And aside from that, a PC running Windows plus a bunch of YourPCNameHere bloatware plus all the requisite security software might have better specs, but it may or may not run any faster.

    Thankfully you can just hit the format button and get rid of all that junk.
    Here's my two step process on how to make a machine run better than anything OS X has to offer:

    1) Buy Laptop.
    2) Install Linux.

    When you are evaluating buying a computer, the ONLY thing you should be evaluating is the hardware, since computer hardware comes with the innate ability to install whatever the fuck software you want on it. If you throw in the software on top of it, you are just allowing yourself to get played. Enjoy your assrape though :).

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  5. AMD Mobile Chips? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Great! Now if AMD could just get back to making chips worth buying.

  6. Re:Next step: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Choke on a cock.

  7. Re:Not on Mac? Really? by sexconker · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yea? How well does the software my work has me use run on Linux?

    Final Cut
    DVD Studio
    Photoshop
    Illustrator
    Word
    Duxbury Braille Translator

    Final Cut and DVD Studio are dog turds.
    Them not running at all would be an improvement.

  8. Specs are everything. Opt for the blowup girl. by MikeFM · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'm quite willing to pay a little more for a computer that isn't complete crap and butt ugly. Specs aren't everything.

    You can keep your cheap crap PC. Enjoy your Dodge Neon and formica countertops too. That blow up girlfriend you have is as good as the real thing too I'm sure - read the specs: three holes, huge boobs, and you don't need to use birth control or share the remote! Hahaha you unexperienced n00bs crack me up.

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