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How to Install a Gelaskins MacBook Pro Laptop Skin!
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May 30, 2025
Does your computer suffer from NakedLaptopItis?? Fortunately, there's a cure and it's pretty darn easy, thanks to Gelaskins! Tech expert Dave Taylor of http://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ demonstrates how a cool art sticker from Gelaskins that's die cut to exactly match your laptop can be cool, artsy and trend-setting. Better yet, it's also easy to apply, as he demonstrates in this hands-on video. The art featured is the sci-fi themed painting "Metropolis" from artist Peter Straub, one of hundreds of different artists who have their best works available as iPhone cases, video game control stickers and, of course, computer and laptop skins through Gelaskins. Here's exactly what Dave installs: https://www.gelaskins.com/products/metropolis-laptop-skin
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pure naked laptop itis with Gela skins
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detail here again and do you have naked
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laptop itis you know what I'm talking
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about it's a laptop that looks like what
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you bought from the factory not very
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exciting the good news is there are
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companies out there making skins or
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films that you can put on your laptop
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that make them look a hundred times more
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cool and they're really good for
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protection so I have for ever used
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jealous skins and I always have been
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sticking with Peter Straub he's an
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artist he does these really great sort
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of fantasy scenes and here's his latest
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one I hope you can see that pretty well
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and what I did is I went to jealous
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Gamescom and I got the specific size for
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my new MacBook Pro with touch bar so I'm
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gonna show you how I put it on and then
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we're gonna cure this naked laptop itis
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now first thing to do whenever you're
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doing a project like this is go wash
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your hands really well I've already done
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that I'm not going to show you how to
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wash your hands I will assume you know
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how to wash your hands second thing is I
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actually use screen cleaner for this
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task but clean the surface of your
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laptop that you're going to actually put
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the skin on and obviously you want it to
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be super super dry the only
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disappointment with this particular skin
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is that it doesn't have a cutout for the
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Apple logo jealous skins assures me
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that's coming but since this particular
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computer is so new on the market it's
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something where they're not quite ready
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to do that yet so I figured okay I'll
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get a skin that doesn't have the cutout
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and you can see let me pull it out of
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its plastic you can see that you know
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it's just gonna cover up my Apple logo
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that's okay maybe down the road I'll
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purchase a new version of the exact same
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art that actually won't have that
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characteristic so next thing to do is to
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decide your orientation and I like to
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orient it so that when my laptops open
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that it's oriented correctly rather than
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upside down it seems maybe weird to have
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it upside down so I'm gonna actually
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have the hinge
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towards me then I have the art facing me
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alright cuz then you open it up goes the
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right way and then it's quite honestly
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it's just a sticker so you peel it off
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it's this nice thick material and then
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of course the whole tricky part of this
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is to get it to line up just so and
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usually the way to do that is to just
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look at one particular corner I'm gonna
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look at my computer rather than at the
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camera as I do this not quite and the
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good news is that you can actually move
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this around and take it off again a
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couple of times I would say in my
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experience since this is something
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you're gonna live with for a good long
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time hopefully take the time to do it
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perfectly when you do it let's see so
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the bottom looks good the tops not quite
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right because I might have a little air
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bubble I'll just pull it straight let's
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see that looks well not perfect so I
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think we're done all I have to do is use
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my hands whoops got a little bit of a
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bubble there let's see if I can fix that
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and again having it be able to come off
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a little bit is nice so I can fix any
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less than perfect spots and it's just
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make sure the whole thing is nice and
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smooth looks like I got a big warpage
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going on here
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let's see me make and roll it on we'll
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see if that works
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hi there we go I can also just do it by
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actually using my fingers as I go as you
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can see I'm just I mean no special tools
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no credit card no plastic edges nothing
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special and here we go and looks like I
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got a couple of air bubbles I can work
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out it's a little sad I can see the
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Apple logo through the sticker but I
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think that we're good and voila my
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MacBook Pro with a Peter Straub painting
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by jealous kins
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that's really all there is to it and
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this is something where far as I
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understand the glues actually get a
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little stronger
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over time and I've also had stickers on
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for years and they do peel right off but
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once you get it on and you get it on
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properly and you've gotten your fingers
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around all the edges you're good to go
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it's not gonna come off when you're
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using it on a daily basis so I will tell
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you from experience people are
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fascinated by these and I often have
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kids come up and they just stare at it
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and it's just like is that a special
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kind of laptop I think it's really cool
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and it's a nice way to share your
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appreciation for art and if you go to
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jealous skins they have hundreds and
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hundreds and hundreds of choices and
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basically pick the style you like pick
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the art you like pick the artists you
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like pick the color scheme you like pick
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the texture you like you know and then
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they print it and mail it to you shows
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up a couple days later and as you can
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see it's pretty darn easy to put on and
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if you can't find something that you
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really like it jealous skins then you're
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a mighty particular customer so before
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we go any further please do me a favor
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and click on the subscribe button
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because I sure appreciate if you'd
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subscribe to my channel so this is Dave
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Taylor this is the jealous skins and
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this particular one you can get at
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jealous games calm this is metropolis by
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Peter Straub and you can pick it up this
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was $30 so really very reasonably priced
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and it's great protection for my
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computer independent of the fact that it
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also looks a hundred times cooler and
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most importantly we've cured naked
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laptop itis so this is Dave Taylor and
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I'll catch you in my next video
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