AMD Wants To Eliminate Stickers On Laptops

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The New York Times says that AMD wants to get rid of those unsightly stickers that are plastered all over new laptops. The company will start with easily removable stickers and then eventually move to not using stickers at all.

As A.M.D. points out, it’s like buying a new, luxury car — and discovering that it comes with nonremovable 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.
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First thing I have done on every item with these stickers is remove them.

Fingernail + 70% isopropyl alcohol + cotton ball = stickers gone.
 
DeathPrincess said:
Is it because 95% of them say "intel"?
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Well that would make AMD want to use more stickers to keep up with their consumer awareness, not less.

I don't mind ATI, nVidia, Intel and AMD stickers. I've grown used to them that it's part of a laptop. But if they start putting motherboard and RAM and PSU and NIC stickers on it, I'd get a little annoyed.

Almost every time I get called to fix a private owner's laptop, I always find that they don't remove the new computer stickers that advertises features inside and around laptops. Those, I can do without.
 
Yeah, never been a big fan of stupid stickers on laptops. Especially the ones listing all of the specs and what not that people don't ever seem to remove.
 
rufio said:
First thing I have done on every item with these stickers is remove them.

Fingernail + 70% isopropyl alcohol + cotton ball = stickers gone.
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Me too. I can't stand stickers. Especially those raised up "designed for Windows" and "Intel Core" stickers that attempt to look like they are permanently part of the laptop casing. Many people don't know you can remove them for fear of defacing their laptop.
 
Azhar said:
But if they start putting motherboard and RAM and PSU and NIC stickers on it, I'd get a little annoyed.
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Centrino? ;)

The funny thing is that most people leave the stickers on there. Heck, I've been guilty of it myself! However, it isn't necessarily a bad thing because I've encountered many people who would have zero idea what was in their system if it weren't for the stickers.
 
Azhar said:
Well that would make AMD want to use more stickers to keep up with their consumer awareness, not less.

I don't mind ATI, nVidia, Intel and AMD stickers. I've grown used to them that it's part of a laptop. But if they start putting motherboard and RAM and PSU and NIC stickers on it, I'd get a little annoyed.

Almost every time I get called to fix a private owner's laptop, I always find that they don't remove the new computer stickers that advertises features inside and around laptops. Those, I can do without.
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You haven't got a corsair PSU/ram? I have only ever used those things on a frankensteined HP desktop I upgraded to proper standards. It amused me for some reason because "powered by corsair' looked so out of place. To most people those stickers are "good" points. The more "good points" something as, the better it is. It doesn't matter what they are for.
It's one of the reasons I like homebuilds over prebuilts. Specifically, It doesn't have that windows "this here software is real authentic hologram level" crap all over it, that always rubs off and ends up being a white faded sticker on everything, so serves no real purpose other than make crap messy. Especially when they stick it on the bottom, where it rubs on your hot thighs.
 
Zap said:
Centrino? ;)

The funny thing is that most people leave the stickers on there. Heck, I've been guilty of it myself! However, it isn't necessarily a bad thing because I've encountered many people who would have zero idea what was in their system if it weren't for the stickers.
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if it's not obtrusive, I don't mind Centrino stickers either. Here's my laptop:

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You mean, I don't lose my warranty if I take the plastic screen off my display?!

:O

I guess that's what people think will happen if they take them out.
 
DeathPrincess said:
You haven't got a corsair PSU/ram? I have only ever used those things on a frankensteined HP desktop I upgraded to proper standards. It amused me for some reason because "powered by corsair' looked so out of place. To most people those stickers are "good" points. The more "good points" something as, the better it is. It doesn't matter what they are for.
It's one of the reasons I like homebuilds over prebuilts. Specifically, It doesn't have that windows "this here software is real authentic hologram level" crap all over it, that always rubs off and ends up being a white faded sticker on everything, so serves no real purpose other than make crap messy. Especially when they stick it on the bottom, where it rubs on your hot thighs.
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Yeah I know, you get stickers from buying premium hardware. That's different from buying a computer off the shelf with all of those hardware stickers plastered all over semi-permanently (like Intel's foil stickers are). At least the manufacturer stickers are easily removed, but most people don't even do that.

I don't mind if it's kept simple. Intel Inside, Powered by Mobility Radeon.. that's it. If they go overboard, then I'm breaking out the nail polish.
 
Azhar said:
if it's not obtrusive, I don't mind Centrino stickers either. Here's my laptop:
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But it's a double edged sword. It may look fine now, but in 2 years time people will point and s++++++ and say "hey look grandpas rockin' that core2". It's good you can buy things like this. I've always wanted to stick 4 of them on a netbook.
 
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rufio said:
First thing I have done on every item with these stickers is remove them.

Fingernail + 70% isopropyl alcohol + cotton ball = stickers gone.
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I was just thinking about how to get them off here's what came on mine. Glad I have two stickers telling me I have windows lol.

 
rufio said:
First thing I have done on every item with these stickers is remove them.

Fingernail + 70% isopropyl alcohol + cotton ball = stickers gone.
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There was LOTS of stickers on the MSI laptop I just bought. It literally took me 30 minutes to remove the stickers and the residue. I agree with AMD on this one.
 
Steve said:
The New York Times says that AMD wants to get rid of those unsightly stickers that are plastered all over new laptops. The company will start with easily removable stickers and then eventually move to not using stickers at all.
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You only take off the stickers for rubbish stuff, or stuff you are embarrassed about.

If I owned a BMW M3, I'd keep the M3 sticker on cause it's shows it's an M3 and hence almost certainly better then whatever the person looking at it is driving.

If AMD want to make it easy to remove the stickers announcing it's got an AMD cpu then what does that say?
 
Atara said:
I was just thinking about how to get them off here's what came on mine. Glad I have two stickers telling me I have windows lol.

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Yeesh!

I prefer not stickers, I don't even put hardware stickers on my case (though I have a window, so anyone could jsut look).

My first thought was also because the majority of stickers said Intel on them.
 
Funny that AMD uses a luxury car analogy when their product is often fighting for shelf space on the economy lot.

The fact here is that people do not particularly trust AMD as a brand being sold at retail. And with a lot of people, if they have a choice between Intel and AMD, they go with Intel because they trust it.

What this whole article really means is "AMD will no long pay manufacturers to put the stickers on laptops, since the stickers were not doing them any good to begin with."
 
ocellaris said:
Funny that AMD uses a luxury car analogy when their product is often fighting for shelf space on the economy lot.

The fact here is that people do not particularly trust AMD as a brand being sold at retail. And with a lot of people, if they have a choice between Intel and AMD, they go with Intel because they trust it.

What this whole article really means is "AMD will no long pay manufacturers to put the stickers on laptops, since the stickers were not doing them any good to begin with."
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RTA

AMD says it will make it optional, and if the company doesn't want to apply the stickers, AMD will still pay the same for the money to be used in other ways.
 
Another thing about the stickers is that they itch your palm when you rest your hand on them. Especially those thick foil ones.
 
Atara said:
I was just thinking about how to get them off here's what came on mine. Glad I have two stickers telling me I have windows lol.
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Those are the ones that took me a long time to remove (GX640 here). Be prepared for the huge silver one on the left. The residue from that alone took 20 minutes. I didnt have any Goo Gone, you might want to give that a try.
 
It's like when I got my car. Brand new car, shiny bright blue paint job, looking great, except for the stupid silver painted on logo of the car dealership. I don't want it on there, but it'll cost me $300 to get it taken off and repaint that area of the trunk lid.

I don't like it on my car and I don't like them on my laptop. It took me almost an hour to get them off my company laptop when I got it, and that was only 3 small stickers. They're such a PITA.
 
seems counter-productive to not use this simple marketing tool. but whatever.
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Zap said:
Centrino? ;)

The funny thing is that most people leave the stickers on there. Heck, I've been guilty of it myself! However, it isn't necessarily a bad thing because I've encountered many people who would have zero idea what was in their system if it weren't for the stickers.
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Abso-ephing-lutly

Do they expect me to dismantle my laptop when the say 'proof! or STFU"
 
niconx said:
Me too. I can't stand stickers. Especially those raised up "designed for Windows" and "Intel Core" stickers that attempt to look like they are permanently part of the laptop casing. Many people don't know you can remove them for fear of defacing their laptop.
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I have an ASUS N61J laptop and the texture is sort of funky... it's not lik hard plastic. It seems kind of rubberish and I actually do fear that scraping it or something similar will destroy it or leave one of those weird white marks. whatever the hell it is, feels good man.
 
i wouldn't mind settling for removable stickers.. but really, no need for a sticker to tell me its intel or a windows os.
 
I think there should be a middle ground. If you buy a prefab laptop, fine, have stickers. If you custom build one on dell/hp/whatever's site, there should automatically be no stickers. You picked the parts, therefore you know what's in it, and know at least something about computers to know at least a little of what you want.
 


These are the only types of stickers allowed on my laptops. everything else has to come off.
 
When I bought my Vaio Z i was sorta pissed I spent 2 grand on a laptop to have it littered with stickers. The normal intel+nvidia ones, plus the FullHD and three other stickers I can't remember now. I used some orange oil and took them all off. I like the look much better without the stickers. A nice clean look.

Also, Apple seems to get along fine without stickers.
 
DeathPrincess said:
Is it because 95% of them say "intel"?
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This probably has something to do with it, but the fact of the matter is these stickers are annoying. Some of them such as spec stickers are meant to be removed anyway, but you'd be surprised how many people leave all the stickers on these machines for their entire service life. Whats sad about that is half the customers didn't know what the specifications of the machines were despite having stickers on them which provided this information and seeing it every day.
 
Talk about a classic "Hey we're not a for-profit corporation.. we're you're friend and we understand you" move.. complete publicity stunt.

Really? Announcing news about fucking stickers?
 
I am glad I only had the intel core sticker and the windows 7 sticker, nothing else whatsoever. Have to love buying business class hardware.
 
BlueStorm said:
Talk about a classic "Hey we're not a for-profit corporation.. we're you're friend and we understand you" move.. complete publicity stunt.

Really? Announcing news about fucking stickers?
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from article said:
At a meeting with Advanced Micro Devices the other day, representatives talked to me about chip sets and clock speeds, of discrete graphics and die sizes. But in passing, they mentioned an additional company initiative that really perked me up: laptop stickers.
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:cool:
 
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