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    Alienware Logo Bindi Dot?

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by Farseen, Oct 23, 2008.

  1. Farseen

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    I woke up one morning and realized my Alienhead developed a Bindi ... what the hell is with that! bah!
     

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  2. whizzo

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    haha sorry to laugh but that's sorta funny... your laptop musta discovered religion...

    joking aside, probably a paint "defect" on the alien head. if you want it fixed, you'll have to ship it back to AW...

    or just take a silver/grew marker and cover up the mark :D
     
  3. Oceanus

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    It looks kind of neat.
     
  4. whizzo

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    definitely not Alienware-ish though...
     
  5. Farseen

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    haha yeahhh, it's annoying. bah, oh well. i'm not sending it to Alienware. It'll most likely be shipped back with some scotch tape over it.
     
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    what does it look like without the light on?
     
  7. Farseen

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    Just a scratched circle without backlighting. It looks a little worn away though, like I didn't hit it on anything to chip it.
     
  8. ojchillinndc

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    It's your Alienhead morphing out it's third eye.

    AW probably could tell you where you can go to get some paint to cover that up. Or you could go to a paint store and get one of those markers you have to shake up to get the paint out to cover it up. Should be an easy fix.
     
  9. Farseen

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    I'm assuming anything I "paint over" it will look like I "painted over" it dont you think? lol. It'd look even worse if it looked covered up.
     
  10. findvikas

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    Hey Farseen... your alien become Indian Woman :) lolz
    on a serious note... it does not look that bad
     
  11. Farseen

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    haha - i bet you'd kill for this one vikas ;) you'll never have it! it's mine!
     
  12. shadedurza

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    Ahaha this is great! unfortunate but great! forgive me but I just rofld.
     
  13. Oceanus

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    I like how it's kind of evenly aligned. If I were to get a scratch on my Alien power button, I'd want something like that.
     
  14. findvikas

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    and make it a 'Cute' looking alien :p
     
  15. shadedurza

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    Itd be cool if you could make the dot be a different color. :p
     
  16. Oceanus

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    rofl

    A touch of red for the bindi dot. :) You COULD make it somewhat a different color if you painted a different color over it.
     
  17. whizzo

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    which is sorta like saying "if i had my leg amputated, i'd want it be a straight cut" :D
     
  18. Oceanus

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    Well, if it's going to happen anyway, you'd at least want the amputation to look nice, right? I think I'd prefer a straight cut over the angled cut.
     
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    Whoa, you mean this isn't a common issue? My m9700 AND my Orion backpack have also seemed to have discovered religion over time. The backpack I can understand, as I treat it slightly better than an abused stepchild (it rarely has a laptop in it of course), but the m9700 never left the desk I set it on after opening it. I babied that thing the entire time I owned it, cleaned the vents, covered it with a cloth at night, only turned it on to actively use it, gently caressed it with a diaper, etc, and the dot still appeared after about six months.

    Freakin' weird. I always figured it was just some defect in the plastic or something...
     
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    Whoa. Alienware Easter egg! lol 3 cases so far yeesh.
     
  21. whizzo

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    then i'm missing one... bindi dot, startup via right mouse, what's the third?
     
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    That looks cool, third eye-esk

    Now you have a reason to repaint or do some styling to your laptop!
     
  23. shadedurza

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    No i was talking about the 3 cases of the bindi dot lol.
     
  24. exiled

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    wow lol that is quite funny. i dont think anyone would bother to send it back to aw to repaint something like that. i would just go buy my own paint and paint it back
     
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    Hahahahahaahah lol, You made me literally ROFL
     
  26. Oceanus

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    I would keep it.
     
  27. ojchillinndc

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    Yes, I would too. I cringe at sending any NB back to any company for a fix. I definitely wouldn't let it bother you. It just means your AW is extra special.
     
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    you guys cannot be serious. i would definitely try to cover the scratch up somehow.
     
  29. Oceanus

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    Like I said earlier, I actually like it. XD
     
  30. ChutneyRemix

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    hey try calling them up, if it happened to 2 ppl, it may be an easter egg
     
  31. t2ppp124

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    I think its quite unique, id keep it :)

    Tom