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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."
Baby oil works better.
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us mac users have never had this problem.
A bottle of rubbing alcohol costs 99 cents. Lasts for years. A tiny dab on a microfiber cloth and that sticky residue is history. Takes about 30 seconds. Leaves your laptop looking nice and bare.
I would have to say that explosives are the most abused technology in all of history.
Try to remove that huge apple that says "I overpay my hardware" with WD40...
It makes sense, but aren't the ones who add the stickers the manufacturers? Also, I assumed the stickers were there by the request of the component manufacturers, how can they be so easily "eliminated"?
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Never mind the fact that AMD will be the source of confusion for "normal" folks in the not-too-distant future. Yay for having Intel and AMD stickers on the same system!
Note: yes, I'm aware that most nerds won't be affected by this...but it will certainly confuse some normal folk, I guarantee it.
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Goo Gone works amazingly well, on even the most ridiculously adhesive residue I've encountered... and it's cheap.
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.
Makes me feel like a NASCAR driver. Vrooom...vroooom!
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My MacBook had nothing of the like. It just didn't.
"I use a Mac because I'm just better than you are."
Wow great! So I can buy a shiny new laptop and not have to spend the first twenty minutes of its life removing the ugly mess of stickers that the manufacturer seems obliged to festoon upon its creation? Or no, I just have one fewer to remove because AMD is just one company (or two, I suppose, depending on the motherboard chipset and graphics subsystem). So all that would be left for many is that ugly "Windows" sticker...
Wonder if AMD will do anything about that? Sure would be nice to be able to buy a shiny new laptop and not have to spend the first hours of its new life formatting and loading an operating system that doesn't suck.
Ah, who am I kidding? It could come loaded with the latest and greatest uber-Ubuntu and I'd still reload it just because it's not partitioned the way I want it...
Which contains the same shitty foxconn made parts.
but what about the other dozen stickers on the laptop?
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This is one place where apple really shines. You buy a new machine, it comes with no stickers on it. It looks really sleek. No stickers, nice clean lines, really helps the machine look nice. I don't know why none of the PC makers can do this. Make a machine that is esthetically pleasing, and don't mess it up with stickers. Also, does anybody find it odd how they related it to cars? When you buy a car, it has the manufacturer's logo, possibly a hood ornament, the type of car (sunbird, tempo, Ranger), the model of the car (SX,ZX,whatever). Also you get the dealership slapping their name on it too. Often the dealer will not only put their name on the body of the car, but also around the license plate. It's basically a billboard for the manufacturer and the dealership. I kind of equate it to buying a $50 t-shirt with some designer name printed across the front. Basically you're a walking billboard. I would love to be able to buy a car with no markings at all on it.
Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.
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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For those of you who prefer completely natural cleaners, d-limonene (orange oil) works wonders. Goo Gone is limonene diluted with a (cheaper) petroleum solvent.
The only downside for pure citrus orange oil is that your laptop may smell like oranges for days.
Don't take life too seriously; it isn't permanent.
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?
I wouldn't mind a single technical information summary sticker on the underside of the laptop. You know, where the manufacturer typically puts a sticker with serial number, model number, etc.? Something which is sort of the computer equivalent of the 'nutrition facts' box on food packaging, which included info about:
* CPU make/model/revision/speed/number of cores.
* Amount of RAM originally installed
* List of built-in devices (wifi chip, ethernet chip, audio chip, GPU, memory card reader chip, etc)
Only thing is, I think putting all that info on a sticker, in text large enough to read, would lead to a giant sticker, which might interfere with things like removable batteries, removable access panels (e.g. the panel you normally remove to access the memory slots, etc), cooling vents, removable drives, etc, which are all usually accessed on the bottom of the laptop.
It makes a certain black man get confused and think that there's a kid in trouble.
Perhaps the most annoying sticker placement I have ever encountered is on the mating surface of copper plumbing fittings. Makes a 10 second cleaning job into a five minute ordeal. Any other sad or funny stories?
No, I'm gonna spend 20 minutes sandblasting them.
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
It's not like the technology hasn't been around and in use for the past couple decades or anything...
My kitchen garbage has been adorned with this sticker for over a decade.
We don't see the world as it is, we see it as we are.
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I prefer to use C4. I prefer the smell of almonds to oranges.
It smells like victory.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
No no, that's napalm!
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Whether or not it's "natural" depends entirely on your definition of the word.
Are we going to start calling citric acid artificial because a lemon tree made it? Or call honey artificial, because a bunch of bees made it?
We're just as a part of nature as bees and lemon trees, so why is stuff we made suddenly unnatural?
Moreover, since it's completely arbitrary, why does it matter where we draw the line?
It's a completely useless definition. That is, unless you want to make millions off of people who think "natural" things are better than "unnatural" things. Barnum called those people "suckers".
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No, that stuff smells like gasoline.
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I was a combat engineer in the army.. your right C4 has little to no odor.
You are entitled to your own opinions, not your own facts.
Mainly because our minds can invent new things faster than our bodies can adapt to them, thus something invented by us is more likely to cause serious trouble for our metabolism than something that bees or trees invented millions of years ago.
Forget magic. Any technology distinguishable from divine power is insufficiently advanced.
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?
Protip: You can get ~20% alcohol with the correct yeast. This may or may not be legal in your jurisdiction.
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.
Modern staple foods are almost universally descended from plants that were deliberately exposed to high levels of artificial ionizing radiation or chemical mutagens in order to induce mutations. Mankind induced the mutations, then mankind artificially and selectively bred the mutations into the food supply. Outside a few minor heirloom varieties, there is virtually no maize, wheat, rice, or soy on the planet which isn't the result of these artificially-induced alterations of the plant genomes.
Which is to say, no, there is almost nothing you can eat "which is part of the ecosystem without human intervention." It's all been meddled with.
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.
You should also insist on cold-pressed baby oil. The other stuff is crud and could as well be made of seniors.
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If you get your baby oil at a farmer's market, you could watch them squeeze the oil, and also be assured that you are supporting your local baby oil farmers.