Anyone take their Windows and Pentium stickers off?

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dmcgibbo · #1 Post by **dmcgibbo** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 10:28 am

Anyone take their Windows and Intel Pentium stickers off their Thinkpads? They came off after tons of use on my old TP but I am considering trying to take them off on this one.

I don't want to start to take them off though and be left with gummy sticker nastiness but if there's a good way to get them the whole way off that would be great. Any tips? Thanks

ZPrime · #2 Post by **ZPrime** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 10:32 am

I moved mine because I didn't want it to wear down/rub off. It was warm and humid at the time so it came up pretty easy - i just peeled. it was a little bit of a pain though, and some of the sticky sort of "folded back" on itself. As such, one corner of the sticker wants to peel up a little, but it's not too bad.

I have a 15" T42p and was able to fit the Pentium M sticker in the upper right corner of the bezel/palm-rest. It just fits up there, if the Windows sticker is the same height it should fit too. (Mine was a bare frame model so I didn't get a windows sticker. Kind of wish I had one though. I'd love to purchase another P-M sticker too so I have one that sticks properly...

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ian · #3 Post by **ian** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 12:39 pm

I'm perfectly well aware which O/S and which processor 'equipe' my T42 - the stickers came off after about 2 days - just slide a nail (finger as opposed to 4 inch) or sharp object (wifes toungue?) under a corner and peel off - remaining residue (from sticker, not toungue) can be removed by sticking the sticky part of the sticker (you try getting it in a sentence three times!) repeatedly onto the remaining grunge on the palmrest...

Do I make myself clear??

MichaelMeier · #4 Post by **MichaelMeier** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 12:45 pm

DavidNZ · #5 Post by **DavidNZ** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 1:43 pm

The day i bought mine, i did exactly what ian outlined. Except the part about the wife's sharp tongue. Ian, she's pretty [censored] at you for that one - I'd watch out, mate.

The stickiness can also be removed with some diluted nail polish remover.

dmcgibbo · #6 Post by **dmcgibbo** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 2:27 pm

ok the IBM is now debadged

it's amazing how much oil and sunlight get onto the case b/c it is discolored where the two stickers were (but i'm sure my palm on it for a few days will change that). i detest those stickers. in fact, i detest all stickers - especially the ones that dealerships put on people's vehicles.

btw, i thought the wife's tongue comment was great! michael's comment about stroking his case is pretty disturbing (i mean come on it's not a mac) haha...

ian · #7 Post by **ian** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 2:28 pm

Now that's one thing I've never tried - I imagine getting the nail polish remover actually on to her toungue must be REALLY difficult...

ian · #8 Post by **ian** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 2:31 pm

dmcgibbo wrote: michael's comment about stroking his case is pretty disturbing (i mean come on it's not a mac) haha...

Anyone who passes their time 'stroking' a laptop is seriously derranged and should have their thinkpads.com membership revoked...this said, I have grave doubts about the kiwi trying to paint his wifes tongue with nail-polish remover but I'll not mention it here...

cakos · #9 Post by **cakos** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 3:55 pm

I had mine off the very second day I hah my Thinkpad

MadeInJapan · #10 Post by **MadeInJapan** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 7:02 pm

Well, I went the other direction. I bought my T-30 used and the stickers were not in good shape. I searched through eBay and bought new ones and replaced the worn ones with the nice, new shiny ones! I like all my stuff to be stock...just a preference I suppose...plus the new stickers covered up the discolored rectangles.

MichaelMeier · #11 Post by **MichaelMeier** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 12:57 am

Matt · #12 Post by **Matt** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 4:03 pm

My WinXP sticker came off on its own, the Centrino sticker is still there. I don't really care one way or the other.

lvlolvlo · #13 Post by **lvlolvlo** » Fri Sep 24, 2004 12:22 am

i took mines off with a combination of something i forgot and these screen cleaners thingies i picked up from comp usa

cakos · #14 Post by **cakos** » Fri Sep 24, 2004 1:44 am

MadeInJapan wrote:Well, I went the other direction. I bought my T-30 used and the stickers were not in good shape. I searched through eBay and bought new ones and replaced the worn ones with the nice, new shiny ones! I like all my stuff to be stock...just a preference I suppose...plus the new stickers covered up the discolored rectangles.

anyone want to buy my brand new sticker? hahahahaha

johnchan · #15 Post by **johnchan** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 5:05 pm

i took the stickers off, it looks so much better now. You know how expensive things don't flaunt, now it does not.

christopher_wolf · #16 Post by **christopher_wolf** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 5:23 pm

I seriously can't see a point to those Stickers, they just annoy me; I know darn well what I am running and I can tell you that Windows XP isn't the only thing that runs fine on the T43. I took them off and bounced them a tad to get the sticky goo off of there.

LtTPfan · #17 Post by **LtTPfan** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 5:29 pm

dmcgibbo wrote: i detest all stickers - especially the ones that dealerships put on people's vehicles.

If I were to ever buy a new car again, which I won't, I'd make the dealer take the stickers off or pay me for advertizing.

o1001010 · #18 Post by **o1001010** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 6:54 pm

residue can be easily removed with rubbing alcohol

#19 Post by **GomJabbar** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 9:16 pm

I'm stuck on stickers!

I want everyone to know I have Intel Inside!

The Windows XP sticker adds a nice color accent.

turbolium · #20 Post by **turbolium** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 9:23 pm

if you place a hot cup of tea on the sticker snd in a minute the glue will become soft and you dont even need to use any nails since stickers will come off by itself

semaj · #21 Post by **semaj** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 11:09 pm

2 words

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worked great for me to get rid of the sticky residue in the past

dansu · #22 Post by **dansu** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 1:33 am

I put the intel sticker on the back of my calculator. Adds 10 mhz.

#23 Post by **AlphaKilo470** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 1:46 am

My beyond aging 380ED still has the discolored rectangle area on the wristpad from where the Pentium sticker used to be so I just peeled off a Pentium 4 sticker that was on one of the Dell desktops at school and put it on my wristpad and it's a perfect fit, covers the rectangle perfectly and less comptuer literate people now see my ThinkPad that really has a P-MMX 166 and think it's a P4.

#24 Post by **GomJabbar** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 1:47 am

turbolium wrote:if you place a hot cup of tea on the sticker snd in a minute the glue will become soft and you dont even need to use any nails since stickers will come off by itself

Just don't knock it over while it's there, or more than stickers will be coming off.

davidspalding · #25 Post by **davidspalding** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 1:25 pm

Mine come off computers immediately after verifying that the thing won't "release the magic smoke" on power-on. If the sticker won't lift off residual adhesive, Goo Gone or the equivalent from any five and dime store will work. (I use a soft damp cloth after it to remove the Goo Gone from the surface.)

Some wankers suggest nail polish, but that can melt some plastic surfaces. I know. I've done it.

epbrown · #26 Post by **epbrown** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 7:27 pm

I typically remove mine, but on the TransNote peeling it off removed some of the dye on the Endurimer cover.

NTL1991 · #27 Post by **NTL1991** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 7:59 pm

I keep mine on as to show it off... I havent thought of taking it off, I even thought about buying an XP sticker to replace the 2000 Pro/ME sticker

Nick

johnchan · #28 Post by **johnchan** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 8:40 pm

i wished the IBM logo wasnt there either, like no name, that'd make this laptop perfect, except for the fan noise pulsing thing of course!

#29 Post by **AlphaKilo470** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 8:54 pm

johnchan wrote:i wished the IBM logo wasnt there either, like no name, that'd make this laptop perfect, except for the fan noise pulsing thing of course!

I like the way the logo was done on all of the older ThinkPads where it was small and didn't interfere with anything and would be placed either to the side of the screen, right under the screen or above the keyboard. While I don't really think that having the ThinkPad logo on the wristpad is all too bad, I do think it's a little too large and that it interferes a good bit with the rest of the computers looks.

turbolium · #30 Post by **turbolium** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 9:14 pm

laser engravings look cool !!!
i've seen a guy with asus (mabe something else) with engraved cover of some funky drawings, made my day W00t

Anyone take their Windows and Pentium stickers off?

Anyone take their Windows and Pentium stickers off?

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