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    Carbon Fibred my Laptop Lid

    Well my laptop lid was getting shitty and scratched up, so I bought some carbon fibre sticker to cover it over.

    After taking 10 weeks (no I'm not kidding) the sticker finally arrived.

    Here's a before and after of the lid. Have a couple of bubbles in it due to my complete lack of patience. But I have like 6m of it so I'm not that worried about it.


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    It's why I hate glossy laptop lids - they get scratched so quickly. Had my old Asus for about 5.2 seconds before there was a mark on it. Current Dell has an aluminium lid and Stav's EeePC has a matt finish so they both still look brand new after 6 months.
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    As much as I don't buy laptops for there looks it will definitely be on the list for the next one.

    Which will probably be in 6 mths or so Click here to enlarge

    Mind you it wasn't bad for 18mths old
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    that's what mine looks like! lol

    except it looks like you did the corners a lot better than mine
    what was your technique to get the corners good?
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    applied a fair bit of pressure around the edges

    then where the lid joins the front bezel ran a super sharp craft knife around the edges to trim it.

    looks pretty good imo. i have some orange opel stickers i was going to put on my brakes, but i might put it on the laptop instead Click here to enlarge
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    yeah... so much better than having to constantly deal with fingerprints

    i don't understand why technology manufacturers insist on producing glossy pieces of equipment, the only time it looks good is when you open the box...
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    noticable weight difference now? hows the boost in performance? Click here to enlarge
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    No fiberglass structure underneath, so pretty light.

    Gain 0.2% for every square inch!
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    siiiick! might have to do the same to my mac Click here to enlarge
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    Would do the same to my MacBook pro but I think it gets way too hot.
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