When you buy a new laptop, you will see that it almost always comes with a series of stickers under the keyboard area, almost always to highlight some of its outstanding technical features, such as the fact that it has an Intel Core processor or a dedicated graphics card. from AMD. You may be tempted to remove these stickers , but are there any that you should always leave on? The answer is yes, and we are going to tell you which ones and why.
Laptop stickers are often annoying. They can rub against your wrists when you’re using the computer, with the heat from our hands and the laptop itself they can start to peel off and even move, and of course they’re a collection of bacteria, so again you might be tempted to remove them as soon as possible. you buy the laptop However, there are some stickers that you should not remove, and you will soon see why.
What stickers do laptops usually have?
As we have mentioned before by way of example, laptops almost always have stickers that indicate the processor and graphics card that the device has, although many times others are added that indicate outstanding technical characteristics, such as THX audio or keyboard. made by some reputable manufacturer.
You can remove these stickers if you want without any problem, since they do not contribute anything except that, to indicate some of the features or hardware pieces that the equipment assembles. Some users may want to keep them for aesthetic reasons or for pure “posturing”, to show off that they have a laptop equipped with the latest technologies, but really, in general, they only serve to annoy and accumulate bacteria, reasons why it is actually advisable to remove them .
The best way to remove them is by applying heat (with a hair dryer, but at a minimum and from a distance so as not to cause damage) and then lifting them with a plastic tool (never use a box cutter or screwdriver as you could scratch the laptop) or, for example , with a credit card or similar. Then, it is recommended to clean the area with isopropyl alcohol to remove all traces of adhesive from the surface of the laptop and make it look as if you never had stickers on it.
The stickers that you should not remove from the laptop
However, as we told you at the beginning, there are some stickers that it is advisable to leave on the laptop, more to have them on hand than anything else. If you decide to remove them, we recommend you save them in a place that you can find later, as they can be very useful. Not all laptops carry them, but we are referring to the stickers that contain a QR code .
For example, in the image above you can see the stickers that a Lenovo Legion 5 laptop brings, which include that of its AMD Ryzen 7 processor, the integrated AMD Radeon graphics or its dedicated NVIDIA RTX graphics; however, you can also see that on top of all these there is a sticker with a QR code that says “eSupport”, and that if we scan it with a mobile phone it will take us directly to the manufacturer’s support website, where without having to enter any data or search, we can now access everything related to the specific laptop we have, such as drivers, FAQs and even to process the warranty.
So, now you know, if your laptop has a sticker similar to the one we have shown you, it is recommended to leave it on or if you remove it, store it somewhere that will later allow you to use it if you need it.
