AMD Wants To Eliminate Stickers On Laptops

Azhar said:
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 mean the ones that say "Multimedia!" and "Internet!" on them? :p (Oh wait, that was the mid to late 90s)
 
The first thing I do with the stupid stickers is soak them in lighter fluid for a few minutes and peel them off.

A couple of wipes with a paper towel with some more lighter fluid pulls any leftover adhesive right off.
 
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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does that sticker really say "the upmost 3d performance"? LOL!
 
Not a big deal, but I definitely prefer when I buy things and they're not plastered with marketing, so I appreciate the gesture. Can't stand the stickers, not like it's hard to remove them.
 
Obviously we like to show off our nice requirement some times and stickers work well for this. I just wish the stickers were included in a plastic bag with the manual so you can choose which stickers you want to apply to the laptop (like when you buy desktop products separately).
 
nobody_here said:
i think it's more the stigma that comes with an AMD sticker these days....if it has an AMD sticker on it anyone who keeps up with computers is going to pass on it for the Intel equipped one :)
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Doubt it. Almost every non-techie relative and friend I have own an AMD machine bought during one of the many holiday sales throughout the year. The only Intel users are the techie/gamers like me.
 
"That one doesn't have that intel sticker, I've heard they're good" customer moves on...
 
teenk said:
Doubt it. Almost every non-techie relative and friend I have own an AMD machine bought during one of the many holiday sales throughout the year. The only Intel users are the techie/gamers like me.
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this is exactly what the problem is. I highly suspect all of those amd laptops were purchased simple due to price. amd does not want to be considered cheap and what people settle for. plus as you already stated, your tech savvy friends went straight for intel.
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teenk said:
Doubt it. Almost every non-techie relative and friend I have own an AMD machine bought during one of the many holiday sales throughout the year. The only Intel users are the techie/gamers like me.
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Here's what I see. AMD sees that there is a percentage of people who pass on a laptop if they see AMD or more specifically no Intel sticker. Even though you might think the percentage of people who do not fall into this category is small, they exist. AMD cannot afford to lose those customers. If all they have to do is stop spending money to put stickers on the products to gain a few more customers, that's a win win. I assure you the number of people who are attracted to a product because of an AMD logo is nearly nil.
 
I think most laptops are ugly anyway, so the ugly "bumper stickers" don't really matter.
 
Oh yeah? Well your lappys all suck, cause mine came with more stickers than all of yours. AH. Take that.

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I like the processor/GPU stickers. Anything other than that is unnecessary.
 
But, how will I know what operating system my laptop is designed for!? :rolleyes: Yea, haven't bought one in awhile..<stares at Thinkpad 600 with NT/95 and D600, D610 with XP stickers> Well at least I know I have MMX technology and Centrino support.. ;)
 
Hmm, I like to peel them off and stick them to my calculators. Because everyone knows that my Ti-83 sports a Pentium 4 and is Windows Vista capable.
 
The AMD analogy is broken.motor oil / mats / windshield wiper is comparable to resistors, capacitors, etc.

There are plenty of "bumper stickers" on cars to advertise the *important* insides:

Dodge -- HEMI (Chrysler)
Mercedes -- AMG
Ford -- SVT
etc
 
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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You know its strange, when I bought my first gaming PC when I was 14, the computer store guy highly reccommended AMD, and I have used AMD processors ever since. Only recently in my life have I taken the time to look at technology forums and I was surprised to find out how entrenched these anti AMD attitudes are. Personally I have always viewed Intel CPUs as unnecessarily expensive.
 
Conroe was huge for Intel, since then, AMD has been playing catch-up, though more aptly fall-behind, in the highend market. I've always liked AMD, and am recently back to building AMD rigs. However, for the discussion, AMD doesn't really have any mobile cpu out that competes on any level that I can see.
 
I rock the two stickers that came on my dell E1405, intel centrino duo, and the designed for windows xp / windows vista compatible. (which btw doesn't run that great on here with 1gb of ram so i went back).

I like the stickers, although they arent in the greatest of spots, much like I have an evga and AMD opteron stickers in clear view on my desktop case (although theirs an x4 in there now), they look good IMO, and thats all that matters. Anything more is excessive however, im not ricing a civic here.
 
DeathPrincess said:
Is it because 95% of them say "intel"?
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heheh, I was thinking that too....

DeathPrincess said:
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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But this might be the truer reason. I've seen plenty of old crusty computers with AMD brand name on it. After the computer's lifespan goes past several months or a year the sticker becomes associated with some negative spyware ridden pile of dust with long boot times. So 75% or so of a computer's lifespan, the sticker is a liability.

NoNRG said:
I had no idea this topic would garner so many responses.
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I know... it's funny. I probably wouldn't be interested either if I went to bed sooner.
 
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I want to comment about the "powered by corsair" sticker noted in the thread, then I got to thinking and that's the only one that really makes sense. Afterall, it's the PSU right? :D

Also, what AMD isn't mentioning is how much money they'll save by not having to actually print the stupid stickers to go alongside each piece of hardware they sell to OEMs. I'm sure that's a major reason why they're pulling them, not because it looks gaudy.
 
Parmenides said:
But this might be the truer reason. I've seen plenty of old crusty computers with AMD brand name on it. After the computer's lifespan goes past several months or a year the sticker becomes associated with some negative spyware ridden pile of dust with long boot times. So 75% or so of a computer's lifespan, the sticker is a liability.
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I also got the same warm feelings from looking at Pentium 4 stickers.
 
Intel pushes their Branding harder than their technology, of course AMD wants to remove stickers. They just removed a brand (ATI) that was stronger than their own.
 
I was pretty happy to see the core i7 sticker on the bottom of my M11X... though I suppose the green Alienware lettering and alien head with flashing eyes does more than those stickers ever could. :p
 
The only reason they're doing this is because someone at AMD finally noticed (after four years) that Apple doesn't allow any stupid stickers on their computers, and yet people still buy them!

I still can't believe how stuck in the 20th century the rest of the computer industry is. People stopped caring about the brand of the CPU a long time ago - as long as it's fast+enough to play Farmville and view Youtube, it's good.
 
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