[tragic]

> * Resale - By putting stickers on my laptop, I am either going to have to try to remove them again once I come to selling it, lowering my resale price because the laptop isn’t in near pristine condition.

> * Damage - There is a worry that some stickers may leave a horrible hard-to-remove residue, or maybe leave a discolouration to the aluminium.

To which may be added a third - your Mac gets sent off for repair, but repair nowadays means "we take the hard drive out and put it in another Mac because even we can't fix them"

[AdmiralAsshat]

Or the repair person might helpfully "clean" the case. Like what happened to this poor guy and his autographed XBOX 360 case: https://web.archive.org/web/20080302171919/http://hawtymcblo...

[Mathnerd314]

That one ended up with Bill Gates autographing a case: https://www.engadget.com/2008/03/22/even-happier-ending-for-...

I guess the takeaway is that if you document everything and complain loudly when something goes wrong you might actually get decent customer service.

[RandomBacon]

> Taking it apart would have voided the warranty

Rrr... We must extinguish this lie! It is illegal in the US for companies to do this.

[rtkwe]

That was in '08. I think that might have been before the decision came out about that.

[derrikcurran]

I'm still trying to figure out how it happened. Did they have some kind of automated case cleaning system or something?

[qplex]

Most likely it's standard procedure to clean every unit that comes in for repairs.

[kalleboo]

> repair nowadays means "we take the hard drive out and put it in another Mac because even we can't fix them"

Even the SSD is soldered in now

[JoshTriplett]

Likewise; half the laptop repairs I've gotten involve screen replacements.