What's your Mac's name?

[Kyle]

Did you name your Mac? What is it's name?

[Chaszmyr]

Sasha. My old one was Jane.

[arn]

Well primary hard drive names:

old one: Fee
current: Chaosmint

[bennetsaysargh]

my hard drive's name is BENNET because my dad was to lazy to name it something cooler

[kishba]

Apple Cider --- My old Pismo Powerbook G3 400 (I sold it awhile ago)
Apple Crisp --- My father's Quicksilver 867
Apple Butter --- My G4 350 tower (arn used to own it... I wonder what he called it :-p)

... and my main dear is lovingly called Freya (PowerBook 800 DVI)

I've named all of the macs in my house even if they aren't mine :) Our old graphite airport base station is called Apple Orchard

I used to stick to a naming scheme (Apple XX) but with the purchase of Freya I sorta left it behind.

[kishba]

Arn...

so your 350 tower was named Fee?

[MrMacMan]

My Current iMac - Dude!
Old Bondi Blue - Ól hunk of garbage (I named after is kept getting slower and slower :( )

[janey]

Well...it depends on what I happened to like at that moment...right now I'm obsessed with the Matrix (can't wait until May) and Apple, so all of the servers and computers are named after characters from the Matrix. The laptops and everything else start with the letter 'i'.

[edesignuk]

Well, I'm very boring, mine is just called "QuickSilver" :)

[vniow]

Ms. V's sex machine.

[Freg3000]

I call mine.....beautiful.

Oh gosh that was corny. Sorry. :)

P.S. For the record, I don't have a name for mine.

[janey]

ah one of my friends called their computer iPorn. I don't even want to know how much porn he has in that poor power mac and on my file server...probably like 1 terabyte.

[AssassinOfGates]

Hades. For all those slain in multiplayer games :)

[TEG]

My Mac Is named Waipahu. Its a great machine, and I was born in Hawaii. When I buy my 40GB iPod, I'm going to name it "ohana" which is Hawaiian for pearl.

TEG

[kettle]

eXtrusion and eXile for OS X partitions.
Cupboard and Wardrobe for storage.
Namaste and Regulator are another two mostly because I was listening to more HEVY DEVY (devin townsend / strapping young lad) than is really advisable.:eek:

[chadmacd]

g3 All-in-one
HD1 == Einstein
HD2 == Darwin

iBook == iBook

Chad

[AmbitiousLemon]

have 3 themes going on with the 3 setups i use most often.

iMac:
partition1 Waponi Woo
partition2 Luggage
ipod: Tweedle Dee
cell: Tweedle Dum

Powerbook g3 (just sold):
partition1 Ender
partition2 Petra
airport: Bean (didn't sell the airport so its name is a bit out of place now)

g3 tower (just scrapped, bad logic board)
Thermus aquaticus
G4 (933) tower
Polymerase

[Skandranon]

My Power Mac went through a new name everytime I formatted the master HD and then when I added a new internal drive. Here goes the long history of names....

Power Mac 400:

1. SHIRLEY (after the lovely Shirley Manson of Garbage)
2. RASHAKAE
3. RAIJIN
4. SKANDRANON & ZYLO (two partitions)
5. HALCYON & ONYX

SuperDrive TiBook:

6. SOLON

(i'm open to suggestions for the Al17 that's on back order....) :cool:

[DaedalusDE]

We've got a bunch of macs for my drama department, they all have shakepearian names:

500mhz G3 iMac: Shakepeare
600mhz G4 Tower: Titania
933mhz G4 Tower: Mercutio
80gig FW Drive: Hotspur

and then there's my work computer

dual 1ghz G4 Tower (which was bought with xtras for 7000 dollars at the jaguar release party):
Processor One: Daedalus
Processor Two: Icarus
Hard Drive: Helios

[pyrotoaster]

I have a little naming scheme to my Macs, all of which I still own.

iMac G4: Tessera
iMac G3 DVSE: Kihei (it's the name of a Hawaiian Island)
Powerbook G3: Wallstreet
Performa 6115CD: Bongo
Powerbook 165: Dart
Mac SE: Maui
(My first Mac) Macintosh Classic II: Apollo
Also, my iPod: Dulcimer

I'm just a big happy family of Macs. :D

[PC Clone]

...

[Maclicious]

ibook 300: Incanus
ibook 500: Digital Sun

[cr2sh]

My cube is called "Danny Glover" and the 80gig external is "Destroyer"

[irmongoose]

iMac internal: Nestor
iMac external: Calculus
iPod: Snowy

And they all have matching icons.




irmongoose

[benixau]

Well, i think i am kinda boring. my MDD2002 tower's called Fred.

Fricking redundant electronic device. of course i suppose most of you here already know that :)

[bbarnhart]

Are you asking computer network name or hard drive name?

My 8500 is called Brian's Computer and the Rendezvous name is Brian-8500. The hard drives are called Pop, BigTruck and Crate.

The iBook is called iBook 466, Rendezvous is iBook-466 and the hard drive is called Hard Drive.

My duel HP is called HPDUEL for the network name and the hard drive is affectionately called C:.

[arn]

Originally posted by kishba
Arn...

so your 350 tower was named Fee?

heh... I believe so...

arn

[mc68k]

j/k :)

The name of my motherboard architecture for the 9600 'Mach V' series was Kansas. So I named it K4N545.

My last work machine was a B&W G3/450, I named it Y053M173.

My current machine is a G4/450, I named it S4W7007H.

Bear in mind I do name my machines so I can speak to them familiarly, but rather for a unique name on the network. My HDD names are all generic.

[Choppaface]

dual 500 g4 ==> "Twin Turbo"
800 mhz powerbook ==> "Wankel" (invented the rotary motor, e.g. mazda rx-7)

[iAlan]

my iMac is called 'iMac-kun'
my iBook is called 'iBook-kun'
my iPod is 'iPod-kun'

Not very original....

[blogo]

I call mine for "G4 466", because thats so informative.

[rkriheli]

Dual 1GHZ: Akhenaten
Dell PC: Nefertiti
Powerbook 12" : Anubis

Network: Amarna

[ibjoshua]

old mac's HD: driveMe
new mac's HD: driven

not very original either

i_b_joshua

[ooartist]

Macimus

[superkatalog]

my harddrive is called "calanda". it's the name of the mountain i'm looking at, when i look out the window. and also the name of the beer, that a brewery produces 400 metres from my flat....

[MacFan25]

I don't have a name for my mac. I don't even think that I have thought about naming it. Maybe I should name it. Hmmm.....

[medea]

Woody.

[kzoonut]

Dual 867: "DoubleTrouble"

[GeneR]

I'm realizing that in the name department, I'm not too creative.

300 Mhz G3 BW Tower: Baby Nook-Nook
366 MHz G3 SE iBook: My iBook

:D

[Kwyjibo]

Since I got my iPod and iBook around the sane time i gave them similar names.

20gb MacPod- eBob
800mhz Combo iBook- iBob or KiBook

[applemacdude]

My PB 3400 is Dalia after my girlfriend:D
My PM 7500 is 750.000
My SE is just SE/E

[iconrad]

My Hard Drive is HAL, I bought it in 2001. I thought it was appropriate.

[cubist]

It's sometimes easier to make the name of the machine (on the lan) and the boot partition the same. I'm not a believer in multiple partitions. I used to name my computers after chemical elements (e.g. chromium, silver, iron, etc.) but it got too confusing, so now I just name them after their numbers in my system cardfile:
G4 cube = number26
sun ultra 5 = number5
powerbook g4 = number4
various other macs = number28, number20
various pc's = number106, number19
I guess it's kind of like a football team :-)

[idkew]

My Titanium PowerBook - MyTai
My Firewire HD - Bier
My USB HD - Toad

[jaykk]

Powerbook 550 -> Ti Blonde

[pEZ]

iMac 700 MHz Flat Panel: Liquid Iridium

It's written in Japanese, too.

[ThomasJefferson]

Motorola Starmax 3000/160
Name = Mother Ship
(Is it time to upgrade to System 7.6? aka, please die so I can buy a new powermac.)

ibook 600
Name= Hovercraft

Compaq 5600s
Name = Well, I call this thing a lot of names. None of which I choose to say in the company of such gentlemen as we have at MacRumors.

[ShaolinMiddleFinger]

"Ohana" is actually family. I'm not sure about it being pearl....

Originally posted by TEG
My Mac Is named Waipahu. Its a great machine, and I was born in Hawaii. When I buy my 40GB iPod, I'm going to name it "ohana" which is Hawaiian for pearl.

TEG

Back to topic.... my computer is named "Macintosh HD"..... yes, I'm original..heh

[Centris 650]

My Centris 650 was named-Max
My iMac Rev A is named-Bondi
My iBook SE (FW) is named-Optimus

I have a pict of Optimus Prime in the background and had an autobot symbol as a hd icon. However I trashed the HD icon since I upgraded to os x.

[Rower_CPU]

Originally posted by TEG
My Mac Is named Waipahu. Its a great machine, and I was born in Hawaii. When I buy my 40GB iPod, I'm going to name it "ohana" which is Hawaiian for pearl.

TEG

Actually, "ohana" means family. I lived in Hawaii for 7 years and it's a very commonly used expression.

"momi" is commonly used in place of pearl.

[AmbitiousLemon]

Originally posted by rkriheli
Dual 1GHZ: Akhenaten
Dell PC: Nefertiti
Powerbook 12" : Anubis

Network: Amarna

Ah Amarna junky. i love that period as well. My other favorite Egyptian is Hatshepsut. Guess i like the rebels.

[Liamcow]

I Took the name for my iPod from MacAddict name for their iMac mouse: "Mighty Whitey"

My 12" PowerBook is named "Columbia" because the video was streaming on an eMac when i went in to buy it...Just thought it would be fitting for a few days...

And my PowerMac's 2 hard drives are
"Xanadu" and "#2"

[Steradian]

I though I would revive this thread rather than create a new one. I was inspired by ibookin@mwny's thread.

So

My 'puters names are Excalibur (powerbook), Camelot, (450 G4 tower), and Luke (Dual ghz tower)

Guess my real name after seeing what I named my powerbook :D

[mac15]

your all very weird and not very wonderful

mines iMac , nothing special

[maradong]

Originally posted by TEG
My Mac Is named Waipahu. Its a great machine, and I was born in Hawaii. When I buy my 40GB iPod, I'm going to name it "ohana" which is Hawaiian for pearl.

TEG

Now that is cool. My Debian is called "ali'i" ( a boss, chief, somebody who got the wisdome to govern a group of people :) ),
and as soon as my powerbook arives i ll call it "mana" , which describes absolute power.

P.s. Ohana means a familly, or familly member not a pearl huh?

[bertinman]

had a PC with Darwin 1.4 on it ---
named it Darwin-Box 'cause it was a box :)

got an old Beige G3 ---
named it Apple-Box 'cause it too was a box :)

made my first purchase: a 1GHz PB ---
named it Flat-Box 'cause it is flat :D

lame but I don't care,

My HD is named 'Kick in the Pants.' My wife's boss discribed me like that because she thought I was funny... kinda had to be there I guess.

- bert

[gotohamish]

Originally posted by Kyle
Did you name your Mac? What is it's name?

My TiBook is Four Degree. (http://www.fourdegree.com)

and my 1.3Ght Sawtooth tower is Weapon, as it was that release of G4 that was the first one to be classed a super-computer weapon by the US government.

See this link for the ad. (http://www.windowssucks.org/g4.html)

[gotohamish]

My backup hard disk is called Kirsten, as I told my girlfriend if we ever broke up, then Kirsten Dunst was my backup plan...:D

[groovebuster]

The G4 in my Home-Office is called Music-Box, my PowerBook listens to the name Six-Pack.

:)

groovebuster

[Jimong5]

My Dual 867 MDD has the name "Saier Blizzy"
and its 60 gig HD is Frozen Heart

[The Shadow]

My PM is called "Zen" after the main flight computer onboard the "Liberator" spacecraft in the 1980's science fiction series "Blake's 7".

My next laptop will be called ORAC (oral response activated computer) which was a portable supercomputer in Blake's 7 which had the power to read all databases and control all other computers in the known universe.

Obvious choices, I know.:)

[Stelliform]

Originally posted by The Shadow

which was a portable supercomputer in Blake's 7 which had the power to read all databases and control all other computers in the known universe.


Much like the Powerbook in Independance Day. :D

[Tae Kwan Leap]

It's been swabbed.... and wiped. Everything is clean. Beautiful. So that it slides perfectly. Nice. Everything cleaned. Oiled. So that your action is beautiful. Smooth, Charlene.

What's this computer's name?

Sir, the computer's name is Charlene, sir

[Doctor Q]

Originally posted by idkew
My Titanium PowerBook - MyTaiI vote for idkew's choice as the most clever name so far. Short, accurate, cute, and thirst-quenching.

My dual G4 is named Gemini.

[NavyIntel007]

Originally posted by Rower_CPU
Actually, "ohana" means family. I lived in Hawaii for 7 years and it's a very commonly used expression.

"momi" is commonly used in place of pearl.

Yeah ya'll haven't you seen Lilo and Stitch?

"Ohana means family, family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten"

It's the greatest Disney movie ever.

[Mr. Anderson]

Coming from a Unix background in the 80s, we always wanted to come up with 'cool' names. Went through a Monty Python phase, Beer phase, junk food phase.

My harddrives on my mac are Mothra, KingKong (120 gig) and Hydra.....not great, but they work:D

D

[janey]

hmmmm this thread is back again :D

AluBook - elle (after elle woods from Legally Blonde)
iBook - aaplgoddess (my AIM screenname)
Power Mac - neo (remnant of my matrix-loving days, see previous post in this thread)
dual cinema displays - pisces (to make my science teacher laugh-we're doing astronomy right now)
iPod - trash (yeah trash, one of my friends renamed it by accident it used to be "jane's iPod")
Windoze PC - @&*$)!*&$(*&#%(*&% (a whole string of bad words that i was yelling at the computer just a couple of hours ago because it crashed while compiling this program i needed)

[Mr. Anderson]

Originally posted by übergeek

Power Mac - neo (remnant of my matrix-loving days, see previous post in this thread)


which make ibookin's new machine called trinity more interesting .....;)

D

[janey]

Originally posted by dukestreet
which make ibookin's new machine called trinity more interesting .....;)
oh no *groan*
it's still cool...
power mac > ibook
neo > trinity

[Steradian]

Originally posted by übergeek
hmmmm this thread is back again :D
Power Mac - neo (remnant of my matrix-loving days, see previous post in this thread)



You mean you still don't love the matrix, what's wrong with you girl ;)

I think that My bext computer (however far off) is going to be named merlin :D (I hope to have a dual PPC 970 tower, or ultra fast g4(5)) :)

[janey]

Originally posted by Steradian
You mean you still don't love the matrix, what's wrong with you girl ;)
i do but not to the point where i name all of my characters after people from the matrix...however the name of the next computer i get will be persephone (also from the matrix and greek (?) mythology)

[maluscanis]

Beaux-Regard

[TaiyoT2]

My computer name is
Getamac

Powerbook g4 867mhz

[irmongoose]

Originally posted by TaiyoT2
My computer name is
Getamac

Powerbook g4 867mhz

But you already have a Mac...



irmongoose

[celaurie]

Heh. I named them all... Chloe, Emma, Troi and Jadzia. Why!? (http://celaurie.worldonline.co.uk/macs.html)

*giggles* :rolleyes:

[jaguarx]

12" PB: Natasha
Don't ask why, i just like the name.

[Megaquad]

My big OSX partition - Zion
My 3 gig OS9 partition - Junkyard
:)

[chiiyo]

I don't have a Mac yet, but I'd be a switcher as soon as I get the money!

Right now my Windows PC is called June. Love her lots. Kind of a love-hate relationship.

I intend to call the Mac I buy next (hopefully the 15" AluBook) Tsubasa, which means wings in japanese.

[WinterMute]

The Tibook doesn't have a name, but the hard drive on my PowerBooks have always been called Dexter after a dog I used to have.

The iPod is called Ummon, and the eMac is called Hannah's eMac.

I also have a sword called Gordon... am I losing it?

[Quixcube]

G4 Cube = GreyMatter
G4 Cube = Fang
Sawtooth = Flotsam
Sawtooth = Jetsam
Sawtooth = VideoDiva
Sawtooth = Celaeno
MDD = Cinderella
Quicksilver = MightyBot
Pismo = Vic or Victoria
TiBook = DavidGray
iMac = Ethel
iMac = Isabella
Xserve = Asterope

They just seem to perk the place up.

[Hemingray]

Main HD: HAL (was previously HAL9000 in the MacOS 7-9 days, then when OS X came around I had two separate partitions, HAL9000 and HAL X. Now that I merged both partitions, it's simply HAL.)

Secondary HD: Holly From Red Dwarf, of course! (I also have a backup HD named Queeg. :D )

[celaurie]

Originally posted by Quixcube
G4 Cube = GreyMatter
G4 Cube = Fang
Sawtooth = Flotsam
Sawtooth = Jetsam
Sawtooth = VideoDiva
Sawtooth = Celaeno
MDD = Cinderella
Quicksilver = MightyBot
Pismo = Vic or Victoria
TiBook = DavidGray
iMac = Ethel
iMac = Isabella
Xserve = Asterope

They just seem to perk the place up.

*jealous* Um, looking for a house boi?