Poll: "intel inside" sticker or not?

[sacear]

Where would you prefer or accept the "intel inside" sticker on the upcoming Macs with Intel CPUs?

[mad jew]

#4

The sticker would be unacceptable anywhere IMO.

[DeSnousa]

4. No sticker without a doubt. Besides i believe Apple wont call them intel but a new G range or new name. My thought's anyway because intel P4 and etc are marketed for pc's and the stickers are so you know what you have, like how windows have stickers. Not really sure, but time will tell. Its just its a year away :eek: :D

[Nermal]

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[asqy]

4. No sticker without a doubt. Besides i believe Apple wont call them intel but a new G range or new name. My thought's anyway because intel P4 and etc are marketed for pc's and the stickers are so you know what you have, like how windows have stickers. Not really sure, but time will tell. Its just its a year away :eek: :D


I think they will call the new intel processors G5s

So when the powerbook and the ibook get the intel processors they will be G5's

Maybe. But then again if they did that there would be comparisions with the G5 currently found in the imac.

Bleh. I'd prefer my apple to not have an intel sticker on it.

[mad jew]

There, I've added a real poll for you. And you two that voted #4, I've added your votes for you :)


Thanks Nermal.

Unexpected results so far... :rolleyes:

[chaosbunny]

Hm, underneath the keyboard? Inside the superdrive? Inside a ram slot? On the top side of the battery?

[yellow]

Oh, hell no.

[sacear]

There, I've added a real poll for you. And you two that voted #4, I've added your votes for you :)Hey, thanks! That's cool. I appreciate that very much. :D

[AmigoMac]

:eek: :mad: are you serious? No sticker!

[Savage Henry]

Althought I voted "None-whatsoever" as a preference, I expect there'll be one on the outer cardboard packaging ... in addition to a little gadget that plays Intels trademark chimes when you open it ;)

[Nermal]

in addition to a little gadget that plays Intels trademark chimes when you open it ;)

I haven't had the privilege of hearing one of those :rolleyes:

[Applespider]

While there are both Power PC and Intel Macs on the market, I suspect they're going to have to have some identifier to make it more transparent to the customer which they are buying.

While I'd rather have nothing or just on the box, I'd accept one of those plastic peel-off immediately stickers that are usually stuck on PDA/Phone screens to advertise functions. It works in the store to highlight what it is but is removed easily as soon as it gets home!

[bartelby]

Doesn't matter does it?
Stickers peel off.

[AmigoMac]

Doesn't matter does it?
Stickers peel off.

Peeling the sticker off will void the warranty! :eek: ;)

[Chaszmyr]

I expect and accept a sticker (or probably not actually a sticker, but some sort of small Intel logo) on the box. I think hell really will have frozen over if iMacs start shipping with Intel Inside stickers in the bottom right-hand corner.

[efoto]

I said #3, on the packing box solely because I'm sure Intel will be pushing to get their name on it somewhere, and depending on what this partnership is really doing, Jobs might actually agree.

I would much prefer to see a label on a disposable box than on the Mac itself. If it goes on the Mac I will be outraged and immediately attempt to remove it. Even if Intel redesigns a new 'intel inside' label for use with the Macs, it doesn't matter, they having nothing now and look amazing. Screw stickers, they cheapen the product.

[efoto]

Peeling the sticker off will void the warranty! :eek: ;)

I hope you are kidding....you are right?
Unless it is an infomative lable (usually inside the battery bay or etched into the casing on the bottom, any visual advertising label can be removed with fear of voiding anything. If the sticker is meant to stay, it will be called out on the sticker itself.

So some of you keep stickers on your PC desktops and laptops!? :eek:
Hahaha, that about made my day for laughing....can anyone post pics of a laptop in use that still looks like it's on the BestBuy sales floor? I would woot.

[MacDawg]

Doesn't matter does it?
Stickers peel off.

I hate peeling stickers off that leave a gooey residue!
No stickers at all!

If they just *have to have* stickers to get the processor, put it on the box.

If it *has* to be on the computer, then it should be a static cling sticker of some kind that peels off with no residue, like the ones they use on your windshield to designate an oil change.

Hmmm we don't have PPC stickers do we?
None of the other components have stickers.
We aren't buying a NASCAR auto, its a computer!

No stickers!!

Woof, Woof - Dawg

PS - Did I say NO STICKERS

[iGary]

Oh, hell no is right.

[MacDawg]

So some of you keep stickers on your PC desktops and laptops!? :eek:
Hahaha, that about made my day for laughing....can anyone post pics of a laptop in use that still looks like it's on the BestBuy sales floor? I would woot.

If I still had my laptop from my old job I would take a picture of it for you. We were not allowed to take the stickers off... including the Intel Inside sticker and various others.

It DID look like it came straight out of NASCAR

NO STICKERS!

Woof, Woof - Dawg

[mad jew]

To all those who voted on something other than option 4, are you saying you would prefer having an Intel sticker over not having an Intel sticker? :confused:

[zelmo]

I hate peeling stickers off that leave a gooey residue!
No stickers at all!

If they just *have to have* stickers to get the processor, put it on the box.

If it *has* to be on the computer, then it should be a static cling sticker of some kind that peels off with no residue, like the ones they use on your windshield to designate an oil change.

Hmmm we don't have PPC stickers do we?
None of the other components have stickers.
We aren't buying a NASCAR auto, its a computer!

No stickers!!

Woof, Woof - Dawg

PS - Did I say NO STICKERS

I like where you're going with the whole NASCAR idea. Anyone know where I can get ATI, IBM, and Cambridge Silicon Radio stickers for my PowerBook? :D

OT, there will be a small Intel logo on the box, maybe even one printed in the Getting Started documentation. No stickers on the computer. Steve would never allow it.

[zelmo]

To all those who voted on something other than option 4, are you saying you would prefer having an Intel sticker over not having an Intel sticker? :confused:

Hell no! I just figure Intel will push for some acknowledgment, and figure the shipping box is a safe location. Looks "good" on the cart when they wheel your new Mac out to the register, but won't actually be seen once you take out the computer and set it up.

[mad jew]

Hell no! I just figure Intel will push for some acknowledgment, and figure the shipping box is a safe location. Looks "good" on the cart when they wheel your new Mac out to the register, but won't actually be seen once you take out the computer and set it up.


Agreed. I voted option 4 (obviously) but it's wishful thinking and I reckon your idea will be the one that actually happens.

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

Had to vote "No sticker at all anywhere". But if the sticker is removable I don't really care... ;)

[AmigoMac]

I hope you are kidding....you are right?


No, I'm not :mad:

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;)
Oh yes, I'm. Even if they paste the sticker inside the box, I'll peel it off. ;)
as long as they don't replace the apple stickers, everything is OK.

[buryyourbrideau]

i could care less about having a sticker on the packaging

it wont be there on the computer to remind me anyways.

the box goes in the garbage ;)

[Azurael]

I think the hardware manufacturers can be quite pushy - for example, you never find a recent PC notebook with an ATI graphics chip that doesn't have a "Graphics By ATI Radeon" sticker on it, yet iBooks and PowerBooks don't have them. I strongly doubt that the word Intel will appear anywhere beside in the spec listings for the machine and 'About This Mac' :D

[efoto]

I think the hardware manufacturers can be quite pushy - for example, you never find a recent PC notebook with an ATI graphics chip that doesn't have a "Graphics By ATI Radeon" sticker on it, yet iBooks and PowerBooks don't have them. I strongly doubt that the word Intel will appear anywhere beside in the spec listings for the machine and 'About This Mac' :D

I sure hope ideas like this are right, I really don't want to see any of that crap covering the thoughtfully designed casing for my Mac.

[Le Big Mac]

I think the hardware manufacturers can be quite pushy - for example, you never find a recent PC notebook with an ATI graphics chip that doesn't have a "Graphics By ATI Radeon" sticker on it, yet iBooks and PowerBooks don't have them. I strongly doubt that the word Intel will appear anywhere beside in the spec listings for the machine and 'About This Mac' :D

They can be pushier with the commodity computer makers. Apple's different, though, and I suspect there won't be a sticker for the reasons everyone suggests. Probably on the box there will be a logo or something.

Also, Intel can advertise specfically about Apple itself. That's a bit harder when there are dozens of PC makers out there.

Maybe, though, Apple will include an intel sticker with the Apple stickers that come in the welcome package. Then I can stick the the intel inside on my car, and thereby add a few horsepower.

[pimentoLoaf]

On the box -- the pretty one with a picture and specs.

I doubt Apple will allow the sticker on the machine, the way Toshiba does. My tosh2430-s256 (I use it for games and... AppleWorks 5) has several stickers -- Intel, WinXP, and Harmon-Kardon, and one other I peeled off that I don't remember.

Unless Apple embosses the Intel logo on. :eek:

[efoto]

They can be pushier with the commodity computer makers. Apple's different, though, and I suspect there won't be a sticker for the reasons everyone suggests. Probably on the box there will be a logo or something.

Also, Intel can advertise specfically about Apple itself. That's a bit harder when there are dozens of PC makers out there.

Maybe, though, Apple will include an intel sticker with the Apple stickers that come in the welcome package. Then I can stick the the intel inside on my car, and thereby add a few horsepower.

I think that the best marketing idea for both Apple and Intel would be if Intel has some new chip that would be used solely in the Apple. It allows much easier differentiation between Macs and PCs, a great platform for Intel to debute a chip on, and then it makes the marketing for Apple much easier and more *special* since they have their own chip....that happens to be made by Intel :)

[puckhead193]

no where, i don't want to see it, but if it had to be, i would put it on the box, not the actual computer, or else that thing is coming off!!

[killuminati]

aw hell no.

[Nermal]

Hmmm we don't have PPC stickers do we?

Some beige models had 'PowerPC' printed on the front of them :eek:

[dotdotdot]

I have news for you - the Intel Inside stickers on PCs, just like the AMD stickers and Designed for Windows XP stickers, do NOT like being touched. If you touch them, they stick harder to the machine.

Meaning that peeling off a sticker will damage the machine's exterior.

[Jaffa Cake]

Good God no.

Given how much time and effort Apple puts into getting the industrial design of their products right, I seriously doubt they will compromise their standards by adding Intel stickers.

[homerjward]

i put "on the box" because i think it'd be nice to differentiate between PPC and intel macs. i just hope they don't put intel stickers in with the apple stickers :eek: of course, are they going to put "powerbook intel" or similar where they put powerook g4 (or ibook g4) right now? and what about if MacSkinz makes a new clear side panel like for the G5? is it going to say "Pentium D" on it?

[efoto]

i put "on the box" because i think it'd be nice to differentiate between PPC and intel macs. i just hope they don't put intel stickers in with the apple stickers :eek: of course, are they going to put "powerbook intel" or similar where they put powerook g4 (or ibook g4) right now? and what about if MacSkinz makes a new clear side panel like for the G5? is it going to say "Pentium D" on it?

Intel will undoubtedly want to have their name/sticker in as many places as Apple allows them. Surely there will be a debate about this to some extent. I would much prefer that Steve ''let'' them have the box and, if they want, include some stickers inside (like the Apple ones we receive now) for customer use as they see fit. I would rather he 'compromise' those locations than give the actual useful computer skin a silly sticker. If they come in the box, you can always just throw them away :)

[sacear]

I doubt Apple will allow the sticker on the machine, the way Toshiba does. My tosh2430-s256 (I use it for games and... AppleWorks 5) has several stickers -- Intel, WinXP, and Harmon-Kardon, and one other I peeled off that I don't remember.You mean like this...
http://oscar.pharmacy.arizona.edu/miscjunk/laptopdecals.jpg

[mad jew]

You mean like this...


Stunning! :rolleyes:

Lets hope not. :(

[sacear]

Some beige models had 'PowerPC' printed on the front of them :eek:Quite so...
http://pcp02220027pcs.echryh01.nj.comcast.net/misc/uglymac.jpg

...and this one with stickers even, just to give a preview of what to expect with the Intel Macs. :eek: ;)

[efoto]

You mean like this...

That is a horrid thing...ewwy. I don't want those on PBs of the future...no good at all. Those look like the kind that can at least come off somewhat easily. The one I am worried about is the Intel stickers that are metallic in nature and quite well adhered. As long as those stay away, I won't be too upset.

[witness]

Intel stickers are always the hardest to get off!

[Platform]

No.........please no :o

[rainman::|:|]

sacear, get a bottle of Goo-Gone, a washcloth, and FIX THAT POOR POWERMAC. It always makes me so sad to see even a beige Mac covered in stickers, I used to remove them at my school (both the old, peeled-off ones, and the bar codes they really used for identification) with goo gone, it's great :)

as for the intel logo... i would imagine if it went on an actual Mac, Apple would print the logo the same way they do the Apple logo, or the machine's name, so it would not be removable. This is why I doubt it'll be visible. Probably, it will be on the serial # identification sticker, which is always well hidden anyway. And on the box. I voted "box only" because I really don't like the idea of it tarnishing the Mac... but i'm not going to flip out if it's on the ID label.

[sacear]

That is a horrid thing...ewwy. I don't want those on PBs of the future...no good at all. Those look like the kind that can at least come off somewhat easily. The one I am worried about is the Intel stickers that are metallic in nature and quite well adhered. As long as those stay away, I won't be too upset.Like the "Windows XP" sticker in the upper left corner of the photo? I think that's not coming off without a fight! :eek: :mad:

[sacear]

sacear, get a bottle of Goo-Gone, a washcloth, and FIX THAT POOR POWERMAC. It always makes me so sad to see even a beige Mac covered in stickers, I used to remove them at my school (both the old, peeled-off ones, and the bar codes they really used for identification) with goo gone, it's great :)Yeah, actually, I am very particular about keeping all my computers and peripherals clean and dust free. I'm borderline obsessive compulsive about that. Right now, I'm actually using a PowerBook Pismo from 2000 that looks absolutely brand new and runs perfectly. Been running Panther for over a year on it and never a single problem. :D

I can't believe someone put a sticker over the speaker grill of that Power Mac 7300. That one was in a University lab and pretty much got abused. It is now cleaned up and living a much more proper Macintosh life. :)

as for the intel logo... i would imagine if it went on an actual Mac, Apple would print the logo the same way they do the Apple logo, or the machine's name, so it would not be removable. This is why I doubt it'll be visible. Probably, it will be on the serial # identification sticker, which is always well hidden anyway. And on the box. I voted "box only" because I really don't like the idea of it tarnishing the Mac... but i'm not going to flip out if it's on the ID label.Along the lines that you're thinking..., IF Apple does use an identifier logo for the new Intel processors, then I think Apple will use the name of the processor itself (maybe making up an entirely new "Apple use only" logo) and not the "Intel" name and logo. And IF Apple does use a "processor identifying logo," then that will likely be embossed or screen-printed on to the computer as the "PowerPC" logo once was. That is my guess. I just can't see Apple using stickers on their computers and I certainly hope they don't. I hope they don't use any "processor logo" at all and just let the new Mac model speak for itself.

I don't recall ever seeing that "PowerPC" logo on any PowerBooks, just the desktop Macs. I had a 68k PowerBook 180 before this G3 Pismo, yet there were many PowerBook models in-between. Does anyone recall ever seeing the "PowerPC" logo on a PowerBook?

[runninmac]

Hell NO! you can guess what one i voted for.

[jdechko]

I voted not at all, but I would not be surprised if they put something on the box to designate that it was an Intel-based Mac. Quite honestly, after hearing the news about the switch to Intel, this was the first thing that I thought of. :p

[efoto]

Like the "Windows XP" sticker in the upper left corner of the photo? I think that's not coming off without a fight! :eek: :mad:

Exactly like that one. Those are the little bastages that cause many problems, especially when on the wrist-rest of a PowerBook *cry*

[arm]

Not. No "intel inside" sticker at all, would be preferable.

[QCassidy352]

I don't see how anyone could really object to a sticker on the outer packaging... how often are you really going to look at that box, even for those of you who hang on to it at all?

[devilot]

While I'd rather have nothing or just on the box, I'd accept one of those plastic peel-off immediately stickers that are usually stuck on PDA/Phone screens to advertise functions. It works in the store to highlight what it is but is removed easily as soon as it gets home!
I agree, I love static clings. Hee. I tend to peel them off and put them on random surfaces. :D

[dubbz]

There should be a HUGE blue intel logo deeply engraved on both sides of x86 PowerMacs.


Actually, I voted #3 (IIRC). I don't mind a sticker on the box, if Intel insist.

[dsharits]

as long as they don't replace the apple stickers, everything is OK.
That is a horrible thought. What if they would stop including the two Apple stickers and replace them with two Intel Inside stickers? :eek:

[wrldwzrd89]

I'm one of the few that voted option #5...It really doesn't matter that much to me, to be honest, whether or not there's an Intel Inside sticker or where it is placed.

If Apple decides to put them on, I'll support that, because it'll cross-promote Apple and Intel. If they leave it off, I'll support that, too - since, in that case, I would guess that Apple didn't want to mess with the image their Macs have in the marketplace.

[Ajsfiremouse]

A sticker woulden't hurt anything. I would think that it would need to be different from the ones on PCs...

[iAlan]

'Intel Inside' is used on PC's to differentiate between those PC's with an Intel chip versus other chips. Here the public gets to choose as there may be a perceived quality difference that the consumer wants. Intel is a brand much like Sony, Pioneer and Panasonic are for TV's for example, so people may have a preference.

With a Mac there will be no choice. There will be no other chips so there should be no need for any sticker on a MAC machine or packaging - just the chip specs as is the case on packaging now.

[Aldaris]

Maybe we'll get "Power Mac I's", "PowerBook I's", or maybe a nice "iMac I" or "iBook I"...

I think they should make this as pain free as possible and leave the sticker on the paper (If there is indeed a sticker) and allow the user the option of the sticker... (although I and many others according to the polls, see putting an Intel sticker a sin above all others!)...

Ya' know recently on Apple's Power Mac G5 page they had two pictures one of a PMG5(internal) and another of an average PC(internal), and the point of the two together was Mac's are nicer kept, Apple doesn't make "sloppy" machines... If you ask me too many sticker's and logo's are sloppy-KEEP IT SIMPLE:KEEP IT SINGULAR:KEEP IT APPLE

[PaRaGoNViCtiM]

No, No, No stickers on the Mac, the cardboard box fine, but not on the Computer!!!!

[jiv3turkey748]

no sticker at all i hate how pcs come with like 5 stickers on them it looks horrible

[PaRaGoNViCtiM]

no sticker at all i hate how pcs come with like 5 stickers on them it looks horrible
I agree!