QOTD: Do You Put Brand Labels On Your PC?
It's confession time for those of you who have gone sticker or decal-happy on your stuff.
I have a confession to make. You know those neat little system stickers that you get when buying a processor? I took one of those "Intel Inside" stickers that I got with my Pentium CPU and I stuck it on my Hewlett-Packard graphing calculator instead of on my PC case.
In my even younger years before I discovered chips and bits, I put a Transformers Autobot sticker on my first two-wheel bike. This bike also had streamers, so I guess in relative terms the Autobot sticker was pretty cool.
Either way, both instances were nerdy and inappropriate, but at the very least I'm not the full-grown owner of this scooter:
See even more pictures of this AMD Phenom and ATI-powered scooter at 8080.net.
This brings us to our QOTD: Have you ever inappropriately branded anything? It includes making something appear as something that it definitely isn't. Yes, it even includes putting an Apple sticker on your hackintosh, or putting a Type-R sticker on your Honda (which contrary to popular belief, does not add 5 hp).
Let us know in the comments below!
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Not a chance,
i like the case too look good,
the decals i believe make the systems look tacky.
friend of mine used to own a honda civic
front windsheild had a POWERED BY NISMO stick on it
back windsheild was "TOYOTA RACING DEVELOPMENT"
sides had a mixture of "SUBARU TECHNIA INTERNATIONAL" and "RALLIART" stickers on it
yet on this stock standard honda he didint have a single MUGEN or SPOON Sticker on it whatsoever xD
i had a sanyo hardisk mp3 player on it and i stuck a pentium 4 sticker on it(looked pretty cool).
Also i had a sony vaio laptop with a pentium m cpu and i stuck a core 2 duo sticker on it, and guess what it fooled everyone. Even though it was larger than the regular laptop stickers.
I've got a 'Hybrid' badge underneath the 'Tacoma' on the back of my 20 year old Toyota truck. I had some guy at the gas station ask me how 'efficient them there hybrid trucks are' and he couldn't believe it when I told him it got 150mpg. Bless him.
Back in a day when I was working at the computer shop and it was like 1998 or something and I was an Amiga fanboy - some Customers ordering a PC did not want the CPU sticker saying they look ugly. So after a year or so... I have collected hundreds of them - starting from first metalic Pentium MMX ones through P2, P3, P4 and so on... One day I had an idea of tiling my toilet's top with them - worked like a charm... Pity I never took a picture of that
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@tinnerxp:
I humbly request you invent time travel so you can take that picture!
Ha ha
Yeah I thought about putting an Apple sticker on my NC10 hackintosh. Only the fact that the Samsung branding was raised and would have ruined the look stopped me. Sad eh?
Nah, I keep the decals in the original packaging because there is a good chance I will upgrade later and sell the kit on ebay. It looks good on ebay if you have all the original packaging, decals, etc and the kit is unmarked and you can show this in the pictures.
I have the Core 2 sticker from my Q9450 proudly displayed on the front of my rig. I love computer hardware, and even though it's a year old now, I still get a small kick out of seeing it every time I power up. I wish I'd gotten an nVidia sticker to reminde me of how baller my 8800GTSs are.
As for inappropriate branding, I once drew a "K" on an old cymbal I had to make me feel like I owned a nice expensive Zildjian one, which at the time, I most certainly did not.
I'm all for it.
I branded the inside of a bin liner with the Core2Duo and Vista stickers that came on my laptop.
I'll peel off the Vista sticker off my laptop and replace it with a Windows 7 one as soon as possible!
This will automatically modernise the machine and it will fetch more cash when it comes time to upgrade.
I firmly believe that the Vista logo has devalued the thing anyway and replacing it can only re-value it to it's true worth so I'm not really cheating am I?
I just put the little stickers that come with it on the case
My bin is Vista premium certified, along with an Intel core 2 and an Asus sticker.