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."

Comments

WD40

[mcgrew]

Baby oil works better.

Re:WD40

[nschubach]

Goo Gone... works for everything I throw it on. (sometimes even paint...)

Re:WD40

[Ark42]

Watch out for glossy "piano finish" surfaces like found around many newer TVs, monitors, and laptops. Goo Gone will actually smear the glossy surface as well as remove any gunk, leaving you with basically melted plastic that hardens into dull rough matte plastic after a short while. My 46" LCD looks great after I removed some stupid sticker from the side of it ::rolls eyes::

Re:WD40

[alphax45]

Blow dryer is the best. Melts the glue and no residue. My dad is a truck driver and this is what he use to use to remove the decals when he switched companies. Works for every sticker I have ever tried so far.

Two words: rubbing alcohol

[uptownguy]

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.

Re:Two words: rubbing alcohol

[IICV]

Of course not! Try it in someone else's home, your shit is flammable.

Not on Mac? Really?

[e065c8515d206cb0e190]

Try to remove that huge apple that says "I overpay my hardware" with WD40...

Re:Not on Mac? Really?

[DeadboltX]

You may not be able to remove it with WD40 but you can sure cover it up with a WD40 sticker

I like the stickers

[elrous0]

Makes me feel like a NASCAR driver. Vrooom...vroooom!

Re:I like the stickers

[Haffner]

left turn! left turn! left turn!

Next step:

[poptones]

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...

That's why

[phantomfive]

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.

Re:That's why

[men0s]

It shouldn't have exploded but merely felt a nice breeze as something went sailing over your head.

Re:Goo Gone or limonene

[NReitzel]

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.

Re:Goo Gone or limonene

[ThatMegathronDude]

The only downside for pure citrus orange oil is that your laptop may smell like oranges for days.

That's a downside?

Re:I like stickers

[Hatta]

I peel them off and put them on other things. My Atari 2600 has Intel inside.

Re:Goo Gone or limonene

[elrous0]

It smells like victory.

Re:"Designed for Microsoft Windows XP"

[Radish03]

I tried that with a Vista sticker on my toaster. The day after putting the sticker on, the toaster died.

I suspect the toaster took it as a threat and just offed itself, lest it suffer a worse fate.

Re:Goo Gone or limonene

[totally bogus dude]

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.