Name your computer :)

[dubbz]

Mine are called Selune (AMD64/XP), Shar (PBG4/Tiger) and Sharess (PMG4/Panther).

Named after D&D deities. They tend to keep the name even if I replace them. My old 32-bit Athlon desktop, which I sold, was also called Selune.

Some years ago, I used the name Athena for my PC, but only when I had Linux installed on it. Never bothered to change the default name in Windows.

Struggled awhile to find a name for my PM. It was nameless for a while, but I eventually came up with something. There's plenty of names to pick from, but I wanted a name that I liked, and something that was fairly easy to pronounce (not that I say them aloud often, but hey...)

 

[camomac]

i use to call my windows box names that i can't post here.
does that count?

 

[zflauaus]

My iBook is named Mac Flauaus instead of Zach Flauaus. My iPods name is iZac Newton. My PCs name is P.O.S.

 

[Graeme A]

Dual 2Ghz PM: Jupiter
17" PB: Ganymede
12" PB: Leda
iPod Photo: Callista

I followed a theme from when I worked for ICL and all the machines had planet names. I chose Jupiter and the moons based on the size of the machines.

 

[fartheststar]

I've got a Futurama theme going on..

My Linksys WRT54G is Professor Farnsworth
My Personal Desktop PC is Fry
The Desktop PC in the family room is Leela
My 12" iBook is Zoidberg
And my SSID is Planet Express

I was thinking of changing the names of my iPods to match the Futurama theme but iPornMini and JuicyFruit are just too cool.

I call mine "Bite My Shiny Metal Ass" in the spirit of Futurama. Also, as another poster mentioned, to let everyone else know that this computer is superior to any Windows one.

 

[barneygumble]

my mini is called 'my precioussss....'

 

[DanMacTR]

Sci Fi Theme

I named my first Mac Aiken (from a Julian May novel) and I am up to Aiken V now. (Performa 630, Blueberry iMac, TiBook 867, P3 750 ( 200$-sorry), 1Ghz iMac 17 inch)

 

[AJ Muni]

I named my first Mac Aiken (from a Julian May novel) and I am up to Aiken V now. (Performa 630, Blueberry iMac, TiBook 867, P3 750 ( 200$-sorry), 1Ghz iMac 17 inch)

Dont lie, you just love Clay Aiken...

 

[fitinferno]

Mine usually only has a name when I'm upset with it...and when that happens, it's either "computadora" or "ordinateur" since being upset always sounds better in something other than English

 

[jmufellow]

good ol' ROY

I named my eMac Roy. I think it's a good name for my trustee old brick sitting on my desk.

 

[OnceUGoMac]

My iBook's name is Booker T. Macington and my iPod's name is Sir iPod.

 

[risc]

Have you guys ever named your Macs or PCs? If so what did you name them?

If you're on a network of course you'd name them, my 3 Macs are named in order of purchase:

darwin
huxley
wallace

There is also my GFs iMac G5 which has the oh so original name "imac".

 

[invaLPsion]

My sig: Trinity

Old iMac : Cami (You'll be trippin' when u found out how i got thought that one up.)

 

[me_94501]

My iBook is named "MiBookG4," an obvious merger of "my" (or the Spanish word "mi") and "iBook G4". My iPod goes by the name "Cheap as Free" (a Homestar Runner reference and reference to the fact that I didn't pay anything for it since it was a Christmas gift. ).

 

[stevietheb]

The iBook is named "Gordo" and the iMac is named "Gus" after Mercury astronauts Gordo Cooper and Gus Grissom.

I inend for all computers in my network to take on astronaut names. What is the name of my network? "Mercury", of course.

 

[sambo.]

well, whenever i put a CD in my mini it blows alot of air, so i always tell it, that it blows good, so i guess an appropriate name would be ''bl0wah''

my SE30 was called Plato and my G3/PB is Socrates

 

[RacerX]

Well, the concept of naming computers has a long tradition in both the Mac and Unix communities. So it isn't that unusual to find Macs with names.

The names of my systems are the following:

Milnor (PowerBook Wallstreet)
Euclid (iMac)
Fermi (PowerMac 8100)
Ricci (PowerMac 7500)
Maric (my wife's PowerBook Pismo)
HAL 9500 (Quadra 950)
Phillips (PowerBook Duo 2300c)
Bonnet (Quadra 700)
Feynman (IBM ThinkPad)
Gauss (SGI Indy)
Morse (SGI IRIS Indigo)
Euler (SGI IRIS Indigo)
Archie (Sun SPARCclassic)
Riemann (DEC Celebris)​

I actually have more systems than that, but those are the ones that are named.

 

[Nermal]

The Futurama theme is awesome. Zoidberg has to be the best furturama character.

When I was at polytech, we got to name our computers. Mine was Zoidberg

 

[Mechcozmo]

My iPod is named "DONOTEAT"
Guess what model it is.

PC is called Frankie or FrankenBox. It is like Frankenstien's monster... bunch of random parts. But it has gotten more powerful over time....

Quicksilver is for the server... kinda duh name for those in the know. (Codename).

That's it really.

 

[ajwitte]

At work we have a convention that Macs get female names, while Linux and Windows boxen get male names. I liked it so I started using it at home too.

My Mac mini is 'vera'.
When I get a PB (when the bus speed increases) it'll be 'torry'.

I suppose the obvious name for a Mactel given this rule and my current naming theme would be 'layne'.

 

[Eluon]

name that mac

My iMac G5's name is Zeus (GF named it)

My iBook G4's name is Ethel.

My iPod 4th Gen 20 Gig's name is Zimri - which is Hebrew for "My Music"

My iPod Shuffle's name is Baby Pod.


I did have an older iMac G3 that complemented my iBook G4 that was named Fred. I have since upgraded to the G5.

Everyone at school makes fun of me for naming my mac's... but I find that all the mac owners at my school name theirs too.

 

[kalisphoenix]

At work we have a convention that Macs get female names, while Linux and Windows boxen get male names. I liked it so I started using it at home too.

My Mac mini is 'vera'.
When I get a PB (when the bus speed increases) it'll be 'torry'.

I suppose the obvious name for a Mactel given this rule and my current naming theme would be 'layne'.

Interesting. I always gave iStuff female names, and Power/non-Mac stuff male names. All deities or subdeities. My iBook is Lilith, my PMG3 Neptune, and I've also had most of the Greek/Roman/Middle Eastern pantheons ;-)

 

[Chrispy]

I named a dead pixel... him name is Chalmers.

 

[ITASOR]

I named my sometimes squeaky left palm rest "Lucy".

 

[joecool85]

All the names are in my sig. Except for the first dual 2ghz that came in DOA (I named it before it came in), that was Eleanor. The next one is Titan AE (After Eleanor)