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    Inspiron 7559 soft-touch coating - will it "melt?"

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Naketotsu, Apr 28, 2016.

  1. Naketotsu

    Naketotsu Notebook Enthusiast

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    I've bought my first dell laptop a few months ago. It's a black Inspiron 7559. So far I'm very satisfied with its performance. However, recently someone told me that the layer of soft-touch paint all over the back lid and the keyboard surface will react with water in the air and become gooey in a year or two.

    I went Googling and noticed that Dell seems to LOVE soft-touch finish and put it on a lot of their models, even on Latitude and older XPS models. So I wanna ask long-time Dell users - Did your Dell laptop become sticky and gooey? If so, how long did the coating last?
     
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    SMOKE_SKULL Notebook Deity

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    I have an Eurocom Racer a few years old in soft touch and its exactly the same today as it was when it was new. I dont live in a humid or hot environment either though. I dont see why Dell coating would be any different. I suspect if your hard on your machine and scratching it badly and subjecting it to severe wear payterns that it could peel the finish.
     
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    That's good to know, thanks!
    I live in a humid country though. There have been a lot of cases of "melted" razer mice here, but now that you mention it, I've yet to see complaints about that happening on razer book itself. I wonder if they use paints of different grades on laptops and mice...
     
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