Stickers on Laptops

First off, why?

Second, why do they have to use industrial strength adhesive? I just bought a MSI GS65 Stealth from Best Buy (cool rig, open box return as usual, saved $500). You’d think pulling the stickers off would be easy. Fingernail under and in the trash it goes. Nope.

The Intel sticker was the simply mutant in how it bonded to the shell. Maybe I should’ve pointed a hair dryer at it first?

Conversation 28 comments

  • joeaxberg

    Premium Member
    06 April, 2019 - 5:36 pm

    <p>Edit: I'm talking about the factory stickers on a laptop out of the box. </p>

  • jimchamplin

    Premium Member
    07 April, 2019 - 12:51 am

    <p>Oh, it goes very far.</p><p><br></p><p>There's an "Intel Xeon Inside" sticker on my Thinkstation S20.</p><p><br></p><p>That sticker is a decade old, and it looks better than the entire rest of the machine, which is an off-lease system that has definite signs of use. The machine looks ten years old. The sticker looks like someone put it on there this morning.</p>

  • wright_is

    Premium Member
    07 April, 2019 - 2:38 am

    <p>Yes, I hate it. This process usually takes longer than installing our standard image on the new laptop, including our base software.</p>

  • Greg Green

    07 April, 2019 - 8:35 am

    <p>The open box deals are great, and yours is really great. A third off? </p><p><br></p><p>Your laptop is a little powerhouse with that i7 and a 1060/6gb. Congratulations!</p>

    • joeaxberg

      Premium Member
      07 April, 2019 - 1:48 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#418858">In reply to Greg Green:</a></em></blockquote><p><br></p><p>Mine is an i7/16GB/512GB/1070 8GB</p><p><br></p>

      • Greg Green

        09 April, 2019 - 4:53 pm

        <blockquote><em><a href="#418906">In reply to joeaxberg:</a></em></blockquote><p>Holy moly, that’s even better! Is it an nvme drive?</p><p><br></p><p>Any heat or noise from it when working hard?</p>

  • Paul Thurrott

    Premium Member
    07 April, 2019 - 9:20 am

    <p>Terry Myerson hated the Intel stickers and told me that he wouldn't rest until they were no longer a requirement for PC makers. Obviously, that never happened. But it's pretty clear there are no fans of these stupid things. Except, probably, at Intel. </p>

    • pecosbob04

      07 April, 2019 - 12:01 pm

      <blockquote><a href="#418872"><em>In reply to paul-thurrott:</em></a><em>How does Apple avoid this abomination?</em></blockquote><p><br></p>

      • Vladimir Carli

        Premium Member
        07 April, 2019 - 4:33 pm

        <blockquote><em><a href="#418888">In reply to pecosbob04:</a></em></blockquote><p><br></p><p>lol… probably tells them to f… off</p><p><br></p>

      • lvthunder

        Premium Member
        07 April, 2019 - 5:14 pm

        <blockquote><em><a href="#418888">In reply to pecosbob04:</a></em></blockquote><p>Probably the same way Microsoft does. There are no stickers on my Surface Book.</p>

        • pecosbob04

          07 April, 2019 - 5:36 pm

          <blockquote><a href="#418948"><em>In reply to lvthunder:</em></a><em>Interesting though, neither aapl or msft purchase as many intel chips for laptops as many other companies. Are these other companies getting a better price in return for disfiguring their products? Apple in particular but Microsoft also to an extent are very protective of their supply chain economics and it seems likely that they would fight very hard to get 'best' pricing. Now of course aapl buys intel chips for mobile so that is a factor.</em></blockquote><p><br></p>

          • lvthunder

            Premium Member
            07 April, 2019 - 8:12 pm

            <blockquote><em><a href="#418951">In reply to pecosbob04:</a></em></blockquote><p>Sure. It's a form of advertising for the component companies. They probably phrase it like this. Here is the price per chip. If you include our sticker on the product we will pay you X amount.</p>

          • rbgaynor

            29 April, 2019 - 6:53 pm

            <p><a href="#418948"><em>In reply to lvthunder:</em></a><em>Interesting though, neither aapl or msft purchase as many intel chips for laptops as many other companies. </em></p><p><br></p><p>Globally Apple is the 4th largest PC maker, so only HP. Lenovo, and Dell buy more CPUs. So a few companies buy more than Apple, but not many.</p>

      • Daishi

        Premium Member
        07 April, 2019 - 5:35 pm

        <blockquote><em><a href="#418888">In reply to pecosbob04:</a></em></blockquote><p>I’d imagine it’s the same way that they avoid having to load their machines with crapware, by basing their profit margins on the sale price rather than on kick backs from third parties.</p>

      • Paul Thurrott

        Premium Member
        08 April, 2019 - 7:51 am

        <blockquote><em><a href="#418888">In reply to pecosbob04:</a></em></blockquote><p>By being Apple. I'm sure Intel was so excited to get Apple in its camp, it gave them the OK.</p>

  • bob_shutts

    07 April, 2019 - 9:33 am

    <p>Use GooGone.</p>

    • Paul Thurrott

      Premium Member
      08 April, 2019 - 7:51 am

      <blockquote><em><a href="#418873">In reply to Bob_Shutts:</a></em></blockquote><p>Yeah, there are a bunch of products like this. The one I use is called "Goo Be Gone," I think. But they still require a lot of work on the stickers and strong fingernails. (Or, better, some kind of small plastic wedge that hopefully won't scratch the device surface.)</p>

      • wright_is

        Premium Member
        08 April, 2019 - 8:21 am

        <blockquote><em><a href="#419037">In reply to paul-thurrott:</a></em></blockquote><p>I use a guitar plectrum.</p>

      • bob_shutts

        08 April, 2019 - 9:02 am

        <blockquote><a href="#419037"><em>In reply to paul-thurrott:</em></a><em> And there are some YouTube tutorials on the subject.</em></blockquote><p><br></p>

      • hrlngrv

        Premium Member
        29 April, 2019 - 6:01 pm

        <p><a href="https://www.thurrott.com/forums/general-discussion/hardware/thread/stickers-on-laptops#419037&quot; target="_blank"><em>In reply to paul-thurrott:</em></a></p><p>FWLIW, one good and relatively safe use for used insulin needles is injecting orange oil between such stickers and the surfaces to which they're affixed.</p>

  • illuminated

    08 April, 2019 - 3:30 pm

    <p>Sticker with the exact model of CPU would be somewhat useful. Now it is just an Intel. </p>

  • nfeed2000t

    08 April, 2019 - 5:56 pm

    <p>MFGs, stop placing <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">terrible</span> stickers on laptops or TVs! I even feel sorry for the folks who slap a "Clean Air Vehicle" sticker on their <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">beautiful red Tesla so they can use the car-pool lanes in California.</span></p>

    • hrlngrv

      Premium Member
      29 April, 2019 - 5:59 pm

      <p><a href="https://www.thurrott.com/forums/general-discussion/hardware/thread/stickers-on-laptops#419237&quot; target="_blank"><em>In reply to nfeed2000t:</em></a></p><p>What, you expect Teslas and other all-electric cars to have transmitters like LoJacks and HOV lanes to have receivers which could confirm eligibility and if not take photos of ineligible vehicles' license plates? That is, you expect companies and governments to incur serious costs rather than maybe US$0.03 per vehicle for stickers?</p><p>At least vehicle HOV lane eligibility stickers on autos serves some greater purpose. Stickers on electronic devices is purely useless advertising.</p>

      • lvthunder

        Premium Member
        29 April, 2019 - 6:58 pm

        <blockquote><em><a href="#424089">In reply to hrlngrv:</a></em></blockquote><p>Actually I expect to be able to use every lane since it's my tax money that paid to build it.</p>

  • innitrichie

    29 April, 2019 - 2:15 pm

    <p>They are annoying. I've been trying to get the Apple logo stuck on the home computer off and it seems like it's almost engraved even when I chisel away at it.</p>

    • rbgaynor

      29 April, 2019 - 6:47 pm

      <blockquote><a href="#424041"><em>In reply to innitrichie:</em></a></blockquote><p><br></p><p>Apple doesn't put stickers on their machines.</p>

      • provision l-3

        29 April, 2019 - 8:29 pm

        <blockquote><em><a href="#424097">In reply to rbgaynor:</a></em></blockquote><p>aaaand that was the joke. </p>

      • rbwatson0

        Premium Member
        29 April, 2019 - 10:24 pm

        <blockquote><em><a href="#424097">In reply to rbgaynor:</a></em></blockquote><p>No, Apple users put Apple stickers back ON their computers!??</p>

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