Microsoft sticker on your Mac - Where's yours?

[howesey]

I just though, if you want Windows on your machine, you have to have the Windows licence sticker on your iMac/MBP.

Where did you stick yours? :D

[/dev/toaster]

Personally, I wouldn't stick ANY stickers on my mac. I hate that when you buy a windows laptop, or even desktop you get a dozen stickers all over it. I don't feel the need to list the entire specs of my system on the case.

[Electro Funk]

I just though, if you want Windows on your machine, you have to have the Windows licence sticker on your iMac/MBP.

Where did you stick yours? :D

In the words of iGary... "I think i just threw up in my mouth a little bit"

[Steve1496]

I just though, if you want Windows on your machine, you have to have the Windows licence sticker on your iMac/MBP.

Where did you stick yours? :D


Odd. I bought the retail Pro version and there's no sticker in it. Even so it wouldn't be seen on my iMac.


Steve

[Nermal]

if you want Windows on your machine, you have to have the Windows licence sticker on your iMac/MBP.

That's completely wrong.

[calebjohnston]

Stickers on computers = wrong. (:

[Macmaniac]

I took a Intel Inside P4 Sticker and stuck it on my Palm Pilot, looks really funny there:D

[im_to_hyper]

Ha, this is a joke, right? :D

I tend to put computer stickers everywhere, my iPod Apple logo stickers are on my Toshiba and I have some Pentium 4 stickers on AMD K6 boxes, to make them look nicer.

[jessica.]

I'd bet that we'll soon see stickers on our macs.

[Mord]

i have a big fat rainbow apple on the side of my pc, does that count?

[Dont Hurt Me]

I just though, if you want Windows on your machine, you have to have the Windows licence sticker on your iMac/MBP.

Where did you stick yours? :DBoy are you asking for it here at the Cult of Macheads:D

[mkrishnan]

That's completely wrong.

On so many levels. :D

[Whiteapple]

What kinda propaganda do we like?

Apple stickers on skis, car, books, and so on?

Microsoft windows sticker under Macbook pro, Intel Inside on the right hand side of the trackpad, all the warranty if void stickers (about 6), the stickers they give you when you have sent your machine back (6 times also), the ATI sticker?

[zac4mac]

I'm putting the sticker in my desk drawer. XP Pro OEM. still installing....///////fkngms

[cwedl]

I just though, if you want Windows on your machine, you have to have the Windows licence sticker on your iMac/MBP.

Where did you stick yours? :D

Thats quite true! If you stick Windoze XP on your Mac, it should be law that you have put the sticker on your Mac as well. Preferably in the middle of the screen or wherever it causes the most disruption. ;) :p

[eXan]

[QUOTE=]Microsoft sticker on your Mac - Where's yours?[QUOTE]

Near my iMac on the Asus notebook :D

[howesey]

I wouldn't dare stick one on my Mac.

I said this as the licence agreement states it must be on the case of the machine. So, it has to be on by law.


Steve1496, if you got no stickers, they either forgot to pack one, or it's not a legit copy.

[discreteaudio]

Boy are you asking for it here at the Cult of Macheads:D

I am new to the Mac world - purchased my mac about 2 months ago, and after a few weeks of tinkering and figuring it out - I at this moment have a Macbook that is 100% running Windows 7. It runs the Mac better than Mac OSX did.. Kinda od. I guess, "Im a PC"..?

[smurfjammer]

My sticker is still in the shrink wrap packet that it came in - I would never stick it to my mac.

[old-wiz]

I said this as the licence agreement states it must be on the case of the machine. So, it has to be on by law.


The license agreement is not force of law. EULAs are all but impossible to enforce.

[Willis]

I took a Intel Inside P4 Sticker and stuck it on my Palm Pilot, looks really funny there:D

I put a P4 sticker on the back of an old nokia when I was at school. Yeah, I was cool.

I am new to the Mac world - purchased my mac about 2 months ago, and after a few weeks of tinkering and figuring it out - I at this moment have a Macbook that is 100% running Windows 7. It runs the Mac better than Mac OSX did.. Kinda od. I guess, "Im a PC"..?

ew ew ew... bit of an expensive PC wouldn't you say?

Also, a Mac is only a Mac when it's running Mac OS.

[Bill Gates]

I wouldn't dare stick one on my Mac.

I said this as the licence agreement states it must be on the case of the machine. So, it has to be on by law.


Steve1496, if you got no stickers, they either forgot to pack one, or it's not a legit copy.
Retail copies do not come with a license sticker.

[steveza]

Indeed, the license agreement that requires a sticker on the case of the machine only applies to OEM installations which cannot be moved between computers. The retail/volume license/software assurance/TechNet/etc. versions do not have stickers and can be used on another machine if it is uninstalled.

[instaxgirl]

Guys, this thread's 3 years old.

[steveza]

Guys, this thread's 3 years old.What's your point :)

[themoonisdown09]

Where did you stick yours?

I won't tell you that, but I do know where you can stick yours! :D

[Wolf103FM]

I took a Intel Inside P4 Sticker and stuck it on my Palm Pilot, looks really funny there:D

back when I was in school I would peel the Designed for XP stickers off the gateway computers and stick them on the toilets in the bathroom

[Quillz]

Personally, I wouldn't stick ANY stickers on my mac. I hate that when you buy a windows laptop, or even desktop you get a dozen stickers all over it. I don't feel the need to list the entire specs of my system on the case.
The "Intel" stickers are required by contract.

Fortunately, most are easily removed.

[jessica.]

I am new to the Mac world - purchased my mac about 2 months ago, and after a few weeks of tinkering and figuring it out - I at this moment have a Macbook that is 100% running Windows 7. It runs the Mac better than Mac OSX did.. Kinda od. I guess, "Im a PC"..?

It only takes one newbie.

[dsnort]

Where did you stick yours? :D

On the inside of the rubbish bin, with the rest of my MS software!:D

Sorry, ain't nobody paying me to advertise for them!

[JuanGuapo]

The only sticker I have ever considered putting on my MBP is a small label on the bottom that says, "Hello, I belong to [me]. If I am lost, please call (xxx)xxx-xxxx".

On my PC notebooks, I'd usually leave the stickers b/c some of them leave a residue on the case. HP was infamous for loading up an otherwise nice notebook w/ a ton of stickers.

I know, I'm silly in thinking that people are honest enough to return it if it ever got lost...it's a holdover from childhood :)

[areusche]

When I was doing some part time work at my college, I noticed that those annoying OEM stickers would magically disappear off of most of the computers.

It didn't really matter since we had a paper log of every install (asset tag and license key).

It started to matter if we needed to reinstall windows. I found that people had been ripping them off and using it to activate fully licensed copies of windows XP pro.

That was totally clever! Nowadays I don't put them out with the machines, but keep them with the install media. It's too risky to have them get lost and especially have prying eyes write down the key.

[aleksandra.]

I am new to the Mac world - purchased my mac about 2 months ago, and after a few weeks of tinkering and figuring it out - I at this moment have a Macbook that is 100% running Windows 7. It runs the Mac better than Mac OSX did.. Kinda od. I guess, "Im a PC"..?

Suit yourself. My Mac runs 10-20°C hotter under Windows 7. I would never call it 'better', even if there're fewer processes and less RAM is used up by OS. I guess I'm just a human.

[areusche]

Suit yourself. My Mac runs 10-20°C hotter under Windows 7. I would never call it 'better', even if there're fewer processes and less RAM is used up by OS. I guess I'm just a human.

I noticed that on my install XP doesn't properly control the fan speed for some reason. I boot into OS X and set the fan speed to 5000 rpm and the reboot into XP.

I think it has something to do with the SMC drivers on the windows side. I think there is an application that will let you control this, but I had a bad experience with it and haven't reinstalled it since.

Windows on a Mac is a definite thing. Our machines are incredible and can run whatever we throw at them! It's just a driver thing that I hope Apple fixes (doubt it).

[jashsayani]

Retail copies do not come with a license sticker.

Thanks for the info Bill Gates. Are u planning to include stickers with Windows 7 ??
:D

[ziggyonice]

The "Intel" stickers are required by contract.

Fortunately, most are easily removed.

I don't think that's accurate actually -- I believe the computer manufacturer gets a small cut from Intel should they put those stickers on the machine. Apple would never do that, so they don't get the cut. Hence the reason why Macs don't have "Intel inside" or "Designed for Windows Vista" stickers on them.

[Osarkon]

Guys, this thread's 3 years old.

So it is. And no surprises to see a newbie resurrecting the dead.


On my desktop I have put all the stickers I was given with the components on the case, but that's just because they're shiny.


Nothing on my macbook.

[MacAndy74]

I don't stick anything on my Mac. And if I was going to stick something on it... wouldn't be a Microsoft or Windows sticker... Whyyyyyyy? :rolleyes:

[Decrepit]

Just as an FYI, when you buy a PC, they have stickers because the vendor is paid to put them there. It's the same reason that PCs come preloaded with a pile of crap applications with 30 day trials or whatever.

Let's say I was a top 3 PC vendor. I built something for $1000, and will be selling it for $1200. 20% margin. Not bad.

Now let's say that MSFT will discount my cost of goods by $10/machine if I put their sticker there. And NVidia says the same thing. And so does Intel.

You went from a $1000 cost of goods sold to 970, it lets you drop your price by 30 bucks to undercut your competition, or maintain it and make an extra $30/machine.


When I worked for one of the top3, we got a presentation on why all the crapware was installed.

A slide showed AOL.
AOL icon on the desktop = $1.00 / machine. (Sell 3 million machines annually...)

AOL icon on the desktop CLICKED by the user = $5.00 / machine.

AOL icon clicked, and registered = $10.00 / machine.

AOL icon clicked, registered and maintained beyond 30 days = $something ridiculous like $100 back.


Apple chooses to have very clean looking equipment. They have no competition in their chosen market segments, and as such have not had to stoop to advertising for other companies to lower their costs to remain competitive.

[thejadedmonkey]

I wouldn't dare stick one on my Mac.

I said this as the licence agreement states it must be on the case of the machine. So, it has to be on by law.


Steve1496, if you got no stickers, they either forgot to pack one, or it's not a legit copy.

Maybe that's true if you got the retail or OEM version, but there are other versions (ie XP Corporate or MSDN verions) that I was able to download off of a server, and hence don't have any physical parts, such as a sticker, to put anywhere.