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Wearing a watch while typing on your MBP

NovemberWhiskey

NovemberWhiskey

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The MBP is such a beautiful machine made of aluminium, that I'd feel bad if I happened to scratch up the palm rests with my watch.

When I was trying out a machine in the store yesterday, I noticed I had to pay special attention to weather or not my watch (with a metal band) would scratch the palm rests.

Do any of you who wear watches with metal bands have issues with scratches/damage?

And no, I won't stop wearing a watch or switch to a band made of silk to accommodate the MBP.
 
I wore my metal watch initially whilst using my old aluminium powerbook. It eventually left small puck marks and scratches so I'd probably advise against it. That said they're not too bad but if you want to keep your machine pristine I'd avoid it. If you don't want to take off your watch to type an alternative would be to get a moshi palmguard or equivalent product.
 
EDIT, woops .Andy and Eddyisgreat beat me to it. I should have refreshed the page before I posted. :eek:

Try the Moshi Palm Guard. Some people love it, some people hate it.
 
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I have an Invisible Shield. And my family uses watches/bracelets and I wouldn't ask my mom to take them off so that she can use my laptop so the InvisibleShield really comes in handy =].
 
macjram said:
I have an Invisible Shield. And my family uses watches/bracelets and I wouldn't ask my mom to take them off so that she can use my laptop so the InvisibleShield really comes in handy =].
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Yeah the Invisibleshield works wonders. My mom types on her MBP with all kinds of jewelry and a watch on...wow is that thing scratched up.

The sad part is that it's my old MBP. :(
 
I wear a watch with a metal buckle but I don't have any scratches or anything on my palm rest. I don't know what I would do if I started getting them. I don't like taking my watch off and I don't want to put a guard on my palm rest either. Hopefully it won't happen!
 
JCastro said:
I wear a watch with a metal buckle but I don't have any scratches or anything on my palm rest. I don't know what I would do if I started getting them. I don't like taking my watch off and I don't want to put a guard on my palm rest either. Hopefully it won't happen!
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I've owned my MBP since 2006 (although I think they're made from a different material now) but there are no scratches on the palmrest. I wear my watch all day, every day.
 
I take mine off or type with raised wrists to avoid scratches. 90% of use is clamshell with external keyboard. I baby this laptop like no other.....
 
I keep a screen cleaning cloth on the area where your wrists lay to prevent the scratching from my watch. Not one scratch though my "E" key looks bad.
 
Its a good point actually, I wrote my entire dissertation on my MBP and I wear a watch all day every day. Now although there were no scratches on the palm rest i found it was uncomfortable with a metal strap knocking on the MBP, so I would take mine off while typing.
 
If the scratches are going to bother you, definitely get some kind of protective covering. The day I got this machine, I let someone try it out and she had metal buttons on her jacket so now I have fine scratches in the palm rests. I'm not the type to really care so not a big deal for me... but BE AWARE of how easy it is to scratch the surface.
 
A watch? What's one of them? Didn't they go out with the ark a bit ...?
Perhaps it's time to go 'write-naked' finally..
 
A Watch? Huh???

Seriously...
I don't understand the appeal of having them any more!! We're not in the 1900's, are we? Yeah, some materialistic people might feel better cause they have this bit of "bling, bling" wrapped on their wrist but honestly.. is it really that useful?

Why?

Cause each and everyone of us has either has mobile phone, a electronic organiser of some kind, a digital music player, a pedometer, a heart rate monitor, a portable television, a dab radio or some other electronic gadget and all of them tells you the bleedin time!

Me, I stopped wearing a watches when I realised I had too many gadgets trying to tell me the time - it gets a little annoying!! Especially when you have a clock in the house that chimes every two seconds:eek::eek:
 
Depends how I am sitting and what time of day it is; my form slags off as the day wears on. I have gotten into the habit of taking my DateJust off, though.
 
MacAndy74 said:
I wear a watch with a leather band. :)
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It has a metal tooth and rim though right?


UltraNEO* said:
Me, I stopped wearing a watches when I realised I had too many gadgets trying to tell me the time - it gets a little annoying!! Especially when you have a clock in the house that chimes every two seconds:eek::eek:
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My ideal watch would connect via bluetooth to my iPhone and tell me if I have any new messages, emails, missed calls (wee icons) as well as letting me skip song, previous song and pause. Oh and tell the time. But an actual analogue face.
 
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