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.
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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.
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.
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!
hmmm i think it depends upon the people or the buyers. If they are technie - they wont be going for the colors. however in case of children or students they want more mike ming kindaa laptops…
So the best question is to whom you want to sell the laptops.
I hate when people put stickers on their laptops. Keep your laptop clean for gods sake. But I guess it all depends on how you use your laptop. If your an artist then I wouldn't badger you if I saw colours on your laptop.
When it comes to hardware, I prefer my devices black and simple. It isn't easy to find this anymore as every manufacturer goes with lots of colors. You were right about the business aspect, one can't be credible when he pulls out a laptop covered with stickers.
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