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Free Software Sticker Book - replace the OS/processor stickers on your computer

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I like repurposing the existing stickers. For example, my Kindle has an Atom processor inside, or so the sticker says, anyway. My laptop has a sticker with the tech support phone number for Suntory beer, and my desktop has a sticker advising the reader to not operate the machine when it is under water.

When I got a VoIP phone, it came with a bunch of stickers that said "this device cannot call 911 during a power failure". I attached those to various household objects -- it's true that my alarm clock can't call 911 during a power failure, after all.

I have an Intel SSD on the way, which apparently comes with an "SSD Inside!" sticker. Might have to stick that to my bike.

I really liked when my nephew put a Tic-Tac sticker on the alarm clock: "Two calories per tic-tac"

I am the same way. My fire extinguisher is "Dual Bios".

Excellent :)

I haven't owned a computer that came with stickers on it for about 3 years now.

I certainly have no intention of polluting my MacBook Pro's perfect exterior with a crappy home-made sticker now.

No removable stickers please, they're déclassé, just the glowing corporate logo thanks.

1) The glowing apple is highly aesthetic, unlike most of those fugly stickers.

2) The product is designed with the logo in mind. It's not an afterthought. It's part of the product's design.

3) Most laptops of other brands carry the brand of the laptop maker in a prominent place too. E.g. Dell laptops: http://www.treehugger.com/pink-dell-laptop.jpg HP laptops: http://www.laptopsarena.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/hp-bu... Sony laptop lid: http://regmedia.co.uk/2007/08/07/sony_tz11_1.jpg

4) In addition, most other brands of laptop also repeat that brand name inside the laptop, after you open the lid. The only brand I can see on my MBP once I open the lid is "Macbook Pro" in discreet silver letters under the screen. There's not even any noticeable writing underneath the laptop. Nor does it even say "Apple" explicitly anywhere.

5) In addition to all this branding from the laptop manufacturer (which exists on the macbook pro too, though it's easily argued that the apple branding is way more tasteful than most other brands), on top of that they also stick god damned "Intel Inside" and "Windows Vista ready" and god knows what other stickers.

Claiming that somehow the Macbook Pro is inferior because it has no removable stickers is completely stupid.

If you want a laptop that's largely free of stupid logos and stickers, get a Mac.

Am I missing the sarcasm (I'm serious, not being sarcastic myself)? Unless I'm mistaken all Macs have a prominent glowing logo that's visible at all times.

Yes, but they are well made and in colors that coordinate with the computer.

Stickers are in whatever eye popping nightmare color scheme the marketing people dreamt up for web/print ads, are generally unintelligible without a magnifier, are cheaply produced and show it, and are glued down with some substance whose residue yields to none of:

  water
  isopropyl alcohol
  methanol
  acetone
  methyl ethyl ketone
  toluene
  mineral spirits
  ethyl benzene
  xylene
  acetic acid
  diethylene glycol monomethyl ether
  nonylphenol polyethoxylate
  ethylbenzene

It took me 15 minutes to remove the stickers from the last Gateway I bought. I finally resorted to mechanical means, and still left a ghostly outline of one of sticker. In retrospect I should have checked that the machine worked first before I bothered to desticker it.

I use a very sharp knife and citrus degreaser. Some stickers on a recent eeepc were quite difficult to kill with just degreaser, but the knife peeled them right off. Then a few minutes of polishing with a microfiber cloth and optical cleaner got the residue off.

I would kill for a stickerless-laptop with Debian unstable pre-installed. That would easily be worth $100 to me.

I certainly have no intention of polluting my MacBook Pro's perfect exterior with a crappy home-made sticker now.

How else can you hide the Apple logo on the back?

I tend to look at the front of the laptop while I'm working on it. The logo on the back of the lid doesn't bother me that much from this angle.

And so stickers back there would bother you?

Stickers back there would still bother me because they tend to be ugly and, by definition, stuck on. But they'd bother me less than stickers at the front - which is where a lot of laptop makers stick their stickers.

It looked for a moment like they were actually selling a book of these stickers. A second glance showed me that I was wrong. Anyway, I imagine a book of stickers like this would be a make a neat gift for a FOSS fan even if he didn't actually put any of them on his computer.

Nice idea but only about 1% are worthy of sticking on a machine. Seriously, who is sticking a Drupal sticker on their laptop??

I suppose there could be someone out there willing to put a Drupal sticker on their server...

Answer: Proud Drupal developers (not the washed up cranky types)

Is there anyone that puts more stickers on a laptop than Sony? I count seven of them.

Okay, just removed all of them. I guess in the year I owned this one I never really noticed them until this article. Once I noticed them they started driving me crazy.

I had three stickers on my HP laptop, which I promptly removed. This is more a curiosity than something I'd actually stick on my computer, though the Stallman sticker in Book I is rather hilarious.

Right on time. I've always believed that "you are not your f------ computer", but after Section 331, I am just about to print a penguin logo and stick it my computer lid.

Can I have a CUPS sticker to put on my sticker?

[Insert Xzibit pic here.]

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