How colorful should a laptop computer be?

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Posted Friday, 27 June 2008, 01:11 HST @383

I see more white and silver laptops than black models when I walk around campus and the shopping mall these days. Colored laptops might look nice in the home, but do people really want to live with one color choice for 2 or more years?

If you don’t like the stock color of your device, Colorware will sell you a custom painted Blackberry, iPhone, iPod, game console or laptop. They’ll also paint your equipment. Their process takes a few days, and you have to wait for the mail or FedEx, though.

It’s easy to wrap a laptop in decals. Students and programmers like to do this, because it’s a great way to personalize a computer. The decals also help the user identify their computer easily.

But I’m not sure I’d go to a job interview with a laptop covered in bumper stickers, unless I knew the client well enough. An accountant might not visit carry a bright purple computer with Astroturf on the lid to a major client meeting.

Erica DeWolff has posted a nice article about this issue at Professionalism and computer color: What do you think? The comments on that article are fun to read.

Skinit.com, schtickers.com, skinvo.net and other companies sell a variety of large, colorful stickers that are custom cut each model’s dimensions - and some companies will let you design your own laptop skin.

Tags: art, authority, blackberry, computer, iPhone, iPod, mobile, student, theft

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1 John D. Cook // Friday, 27 June 2008, 02:23 HST @432

I find it annoying when I’m teaching and I look out at a sea of laptops with bumper stickers. I’m looking for faces to gauge how well I’m connecting, and instead I see advertising. It would still be a problem if the laptops were clean, but the stickers add insult to injury.
2 billso // Friday, 27 June 2008, 09:17 HST @720

If they have OSS or Tux stickers, that’s bonus points in my book. We see a lot of surfboard and swimwear stickers out here.

I imagine you see more than a few football stickers out there in Houston. Texans or Cowboys? I’m a lifelong Bucs fan, myself.
3 Erica DeWolf // Saturday, 28 June 2008, 08:01 HST @667

Thanks for the shout out and the link to my post- it certainly is an interesting subject, and I was lucky enough to have several different opinions shared with me in the comments section of the post- check it out! Thanks again!