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Why have a naked laptop when you can get one of the hundreds of different cool, artistic laptop stickers from Nuvango and put 'em on yourself. But when you get the logo cutout? That can be tricky. Dave Taylor of http://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ shows you step-by-step exactly how to install your own laptop sticker perfectly.
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hi Dave Taylor here again and this time
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I'm filled with anxiety about this video
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so bear with me what I'm going to do is
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I got a brand new full-size sticker to
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put on the back of my much-loved macbook
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pro why do I need a new one because I
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always have a sticker on the back it's
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just sort of something I've started I
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don't know like 10 years ago and I just
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had to get an entirely new display from
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Apple which actually turned out to be
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surprisingly inexpensive for an out of
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warranty service but it's totally
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different story anyway now it feels
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naked I'm so used to having a sticker so
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I went to new van Gogh don't know where
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the name comes from I went to new van
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Gogh and I had them send me a sticker so
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this is going to be wicked cool check
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out this image right so what we need to
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do is we need to actually peel it off
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and put it on perfectly now here's where
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there's a wrinkle here is I actually had
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them cut out the apple logo so that the
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apple logo would be visible through the
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sticker as opposed to behind the sticker
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you know what i mean so there's a cut
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out so they actually punched that for me
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i had to actually go through customer
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service so by default the company to
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send you a solid sticker but apparently
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if you contact them they're willing to
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get that in the dye lot done or whatever
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it is and it works so to start let's
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take the sticker out of the bag which by
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itself took me a little bit of thinking
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to try to figure out what they've done
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but it's a little fold on the bottom
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pull it out and let's see we have this
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so I'm going to just go ahead and get
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these pieces out of the way and has
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instructions that basically says clean
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the surface of your device with the soft
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cloths remove any oil dirt or cheese
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puffs teens yikes let's try not to have
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too much in the way of cheese puffs
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there and here's our sticker now we're
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not quite ready yet because let's start
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by actually cleaning the laptop itself
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and I actually the first thing I did she
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do this you still see it the first thing
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I did is I washed my hands thoroughly to
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get any of the oils off of my hands
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that's a good step 0 now i'm going to
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use just a screen cleaner and i'm going
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to go ahead and clean the back of my
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computer now obviously you want to make
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sure it's perfectly dry because you
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really want this sticker to work but
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they're using this sticker material I
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think it's from 3m and since I've used
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these before I know you can take it off
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once or twice as your sort of fitting it
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properly and then it just rocks I mean
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it just stays on forever so clean laptop
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clean hands sticker ready to go I'm
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going to orient it so I can see the
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Apple let me get rid of that thumbprint
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and now boy here we go and basically as
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you can see I'm just peeling the sticker
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off and I'm going to get to a point
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where let's see what happens with the
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Apple cut out i'll look at that can you
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see what's happened the Apple cutout is
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still on the paper and there's just a
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hole in the sticker so now here's the
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challenge the challenge is to line it up
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perfectly and see if I can do it so I'm
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going to start in the middle because
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obviously it's the apple logo we want to
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get lined up oh this fills me with
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anxiety no not quite that was close
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though and it's kind of interesting
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because it's not actually very sticky
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right now so it actually feels like it's
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just sort of floating above the laptop
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here we go how's that look so you're not
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quite square shoot close but this is one
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of these things where you just have to
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have a little bit of patience and let's
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see so we need to get that square on the
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corner then we need to get it over the
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apple logo and I think we got it let's
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see so now all I have to do is sort of
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from the center out and I don't like
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that
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still not quite right so we'll lift it
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up come on you could do it lift it up
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whoo and we'll try one more time and you
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know the reason I go through all this
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hassle is because I'm going to be
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looking at this darn sticker for who
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knows how long and so I really want it
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to look perfect so it doesn't bug me I
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my slightly OCD about this it's possible
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we won't go there but let's see that
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looks much better see it's possible it's
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never going to be absolutely perfect but
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we're just going to go ahead and do this
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and you know the reality is is that the
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sticker isn't perfectly aligned on the
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center of everything but given that it's
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actually perfectly aligned over the
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Apple logo I wonder if my apple logo is
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perfectly in the center of my computer
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haha maybe it's an apple problem not
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Anna van gogh problem in any case as you
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saw it's pretty easy like any of these
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sort of covers or stickers or anything
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you always start from the middle and
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push your way out to the edges and let's
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see there's a little overlap on the top
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here this all seems pretty easy and
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lights up and hope you can see that
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perfect worked great so this is my new
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new van Gogh this is the hyper mass is
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the name of this particular art piece
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laptop skin for a 15-inch macbook pro
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retina I can breathe now I got it to
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work and it's 30 bucks the cutout was
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free so you want to learn more about
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these go to new van Gogh com this is
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dave taylor and now that my laptop
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doesn't look naked and I have this
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wicked cool sticker on it I'm out of
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here
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