Who has removed the Intel and Windows stickers from their palmrest?

I am considering whether I should remove the Intel Centrino and Windows Vista stickers from my palmrest

Who's done it?
What are the pros and cons of removing/retaining them?
Should I wait until they are partially effaced through wear and tear and remove it then?
How old was your laptop before you removed the stickers?

Thanks :smile:

 

I took em off on the first day. If you ever want to take them off, you should do it sooner than later. The later that you take it off, the more difference between the color under the sticker and the rest of the laptop will be. It'll usually be lighter under the sticker.

 

i dont really like stickers... but the intel and windows sticker etc. is especially sticky.... i usually remove the spec advert on the laptop but, for intel and windows i leave em on. they dont look too bad actually; they are quite small.

the disadvantage of removing it is; you could leave a mess. and if you do decide to sell it might reduce its value.

 

I've had my T61p for about 5 weeks, so the color difference shouldnt be too much of an issue.

What's the best way of removing them? Tools, solvents?

 

Just pull it off slowly but firmly. If it leaves any residue, just put some baby oil on a soft cloth and rub it down and rinse it out with a little water. Notice I said LITTLE. Little baby oil, little water.

 

stickers last about 5 minutes on my laptops. i know what i have inside. pros and cons? none really, no effect on performance. haha. goo gone works great removing the adhesive.

 

I didn't get a spec advert on the laptop. I only have 3 stickers and they are all quite small - (1) Intel, (2) Windows and (3) Energy Star sticker on the lid.

 

Also, some people have used a blow dryer on the stickers to heat them up making for an easy removal. If you do do this, make sure not to heat up the case itself too much, just the sticker. Clean any goo residue with baby oil.

 

If I am peeling them off, is there a chance that the paint from the palmrest will come off also? Or are the Thinkpad palmrests not painted?

 

I have seen many laptops where the stickers have partially been worn away through continuous friction with the palm/wrist. It's such an ugly look

 

no paint. just high quality ballistic plastic.

 

always; no cons; not unless you want a mess; about 10 minutes out-of-the-box (I do turn it on first)

Just grab a corner with your fingernails, and pull v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y. If there's any sticky stuff left on the palmrest, use the sticker itself to dab most of it off and then rub the palmrest with your finger to obliterate the rest.

I have never had to use goo-gone or anything else to get the rest of the sticky stuff off.

 

Keep the stickers on; they absorb heat and keep your laptop cool, especially the dark colored ones.

lol

 

Technically I removed them, but I bought new ones and put them back on again. I had to remove them to apply a palm rest protector, and I put the new ones on top.

lmao

 

thats why my laptop is always so hot, why didnt i get this advice earlier

 

I hear the NVIDIA stickers are all black. Too bad they won't be using those anymore.

 

I removed mine as they came crooked.

 

has anyone tried to use rubbing alcohol to remove their stickers / the goo?

 

I love useless knowledge. Brilliant. Its like when people ask me why I have loops in all the network cable, I tell them speed loops. Centrifugal force makes the data move through the cable faster.

 

Thinkpad user should definitely remove all stickers to keep that professional all-black look.

 

I hope this is a joke, unless the stickers are copper or other metal, it's insulating not cooling.

 

yes....this is my favorite thread. I also armor all my machine so the surface is more slick and air moves faster past it and cools it quicker.

 

took out vista and put on the ubuntu (sticker and OS) right after i got it

 

Did you find a driver for your Ubuntu sticker? It's kinda pointless putting one on unless you have the latest drivers...

 

Drivers for linux stickers are built-in.

Seriously, I recommend removing the stickers. Sometimes they can cause wear on the display bezel, depending on where/if they contact it when the lid is closed.

 

It totally works, I went to office depot and stole all the stickers from the computers on display. It totally solved the nvidia overheating problem. OMG

 

i just wrap my computer in electrical tape...

 

My T61p is almost a year old, and the print on the windows sticker have worn off (it's my main computer at school, and my hand must have rubbed against it so often that the paint rubbed off). Recently, it even moved a little bit on the palmrest (for the same reason as the worn paint). I tried taking it off but the glue underneath is very sticky and would be a PITA to clean off the palmrest, so I just leave it. I don't plan on removing the Intel sticker though.

 

I just took off my stickers today after one year of use. I took a thin razor blade and sliced it underneath a corner so I could grasp it with two fingers. After that, I just slowly peeled it off. It didn't leave any physical residue (you can't feel anything), but under the right light at the right angle, you can see a faint (very faint) filled-outline of the sticker. The outline is slightly a lighter black than the palmrest. I decided to remove the stickers (C2D & XP) because I'm installing Vista soon and it just looked goofy with one sticker on the left side.

 

I got a new palmrest which didn't have any stickers because my first palmrest was acting up. This palmrest also happens to have the IBM logo on it instead of the Thinkpad one I have on the outiside.

 

I was able to take them off my T60 by using my fingernail and being careful (no need for a hair dryer, etc). Not wanting to throw them away, I stuck them on the bottom of the notebook where they still remain intact. I think it looks a lot better without them.

 

boooo ... PM me when you decide to ditch the vista and return to XP .. I'll tell ya some tricks for installing clean XP without using system update, lol

 

alright .. you convinced me .. I just removed my stickers too, with a special tool called nail

the laptop looks more clean I guess

 

it moves by time due the heat from ur hand, so i eventually removed them

 

but does it look better? or does it look a bit empty?

 

Can we get pics of your guys' naked laptops.

 

if you like more clean, then it looks better ... lolol

but seriously, it looks good .. not like a sales person's item

 

Here you go,

I also took mine off because it looked like it was rubbing off onto my screen bezel.

 

very neat and clean

 

I just removed all stickers too - Vista, Intel and Energy Star. Didn't leave any residue or marks. Rather than throw them away, I stuck them to the underside of my T61p.

 

If you remove the stickers, will that affect resale price?

 

Not unless you find a pretty shallow buyer. Plus, the stickers are available on the web for couple of $. So, if you feel like it you can buy it, stick it and then sell it.

 

i always use a hair dryer and try not to get the casing too hot. i had a gericom laptop (== piece of crap) where a few key caps melted away, such thing never occured to me again, but i also got more cautious.

 

I doubt it. Imagine buying a used laptop and seeing that the stickers are worn away or partially lifted, wouldn't look too good would it? They look better with the stickers off anyway!

 

Yeah I always remove stickers. They are ulgy, and can be very annoying.

 

I took them off too. Right after i took it out of the box

 

The Vista sticker was ugly, so I removed it ASAP. Then, after a week of looking at it, the Centrino 2 sticker, which isn't bad, looked a bit out of place on the clean black of the Thinkpad. So both are gone

 

I relocated all (Vista, Centrino 2 vPro, Energy Star, Wacom, WWAN MAC, WLAN MAC) of mine to the battery bay. This keeps them out of the way, but maintains them for future reference.

 

Just removed mine as I was reading this thread! Much prefer the clean back & red asthetic...

 

In case you need to return the machine, would Lenovo give you trouble for the missing stickers?