What's your computer's name

[jbomber]

Anybody got a really interesting name for their computer? For some reason, I've always named my machines after women. Maybe it's because they're so temperamental :D

8500/150 Powermac - Betsy
G3 Pismo Powerbook- Val
G4 Powermac Server - Nia
G4 Ti Powerbook - Mariko

[janey]

iBook-soon to be renamed apollo (because me and Josh's iBooks are almost identical-his is named Diana-Mercury (http://forums.macrumors.com/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=19210) decided that mine should be named Apollo as soon as I install Panther on it)
Aluminum PowerBook-andrea
Power Mac G4-sidney
iPod-It's Alive
peecee-the_biatch :D

[pEZ]

My iMac is named Luxo - unoriginal, but fitting. I haven't named my new* iPod yet.

*new meaning a used hand-me-down

[Giaguara]

Zen.

[BaghdadBob]

I used to change mine whenever I was in the mood, but it's been "Superego" for several years now. For those who don't know it's a psychology thing. At the time I had just renamed it from "id".

[Doctor Q]

I think we already had a thread for this topic. My dual G4 is named Gemini.

[XnavxeMiyyep]

We did. My PM G4 is Salmonious.

[Roger1]

My computers name is "untitled"

[jbomber]

Originally posted by übergeek
iBook-soon to be renamed apollo (because me and Josh's iBooks are almost identical-his is named Diana-Mercury (http://forums.macrumors.com/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=19210) decided that mine should be named Apollo as soon as I install Panther on it)
Aluminum PowerBook-andrea
Power Mac G4-sidney
iPod-It's Alive
peecee-the_biatch :D


Hahahaha,

My PC at work is named "The B*tch" too.
My Mac at work is named Wintermute.

[plinkoman]

my pc - forbin (not insulting because i use linux)
my iPod - i don't know yet
my iMac - i don't know yet
the 17" powerbook G5 i'll be getting around this time next year - god

[King Cobra]

Right now it's just Supercube

But right now it seems to be attracting a lot of bugs, mostly at night...that could be my LCD monitor, though.

Then I step in. :eek:

Perhaps I should call mine the Bugzapper.

[Steradian]

Hmm wonder how many times this Thread has been made...o well, my 'Puters name is Excalibur, my big shinny Ti Book for lil ole Arthur :D

[scem0]

grape iMac = Sally

PC = Clown

Future G5 = Beast :D

scem0

[GroundLoop]

Mine is named "Phlegethon"

The river that flows with fire which burns and does not consume. It is one of the five principal rivers in the realms of Hades.

Hickman

[Kwyjibo]

ibob or KiBook, i write KiBook and say iBob

[jefhatfield]

when i first saw the icebook ibooks, i thought of calling them the "FUJITSU" lifebook ibooks

that's exactly what they look like to the untrained eye

and the 12 inch powerbook looks like the "ibook plus" to me....or "g4 ibook";)

[funkywhat2]

Duo = Duo

Gateway = The Peice of ****

[eyelikeart]

my iMac I named "iMac" & my TiBook I named "Powerbook G4"

the hard drives...80GB in the iMac is "80GB" & the 30GB in the Ti is "30GB"

analogously...my 120GB firewire drive is "120GB" & my 10GB firewire drive is "10GB"

word ;)

[tazo]

if i ever get a 12'' notebook I will call Amigito. :)

Right now mah mac does not have a name, I call my dell POS though :):p

[dreamlance]

Originally posted by funkywhat2
Duo = Duo

Hey! That's the name of my (future) ibook! :p My PC was named Boogers before it met its fiery end. The Mac I use at work really doesn't have a name :confused:

[zarathustra]

Usually my Macs just have been "Macintosh HD".
A few exceptions:

Blinky - iMac 333
Nemo - 400 Pismo (it was called that way before "Finding Nemo" BTW)
Spanky - DP 1.25 Ghz PM G4

[SPG]

The Mothership
Network connection setting? You guessed it... The Mothership Connection!

I've always had more fun naming the various drives... Big Booty, Satan's Little Helper, two partitions named Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, Heavy Lifter, Back That Ass Up (backup drive of course). I once had a whole slew of syquest cartridges with biblical names beginning with M. It started with Moses since it traveled, then it got tough after a while, Mordechai, Methusila, and a dozen others.

[Wardofsky]

Sage.
Guess why.

Toshiba: That's pretty much it...

[job]

My iMac - batman

My brother's iMac - superman

My father's old 7200 (with a 7500 mobo and a ZIF G3/400Mhz upgrade) - spiderman

My father's geological workstation - the_hulk

Can anyone detect a certain trend? ;)

Those names are also the network names of the computers. All of them are connected via Airport or the x86 equivalent.

[Durandal7]

My eMac is named Silicon Apex.

[hvfsl]

PB G4 550 - G4 PowerBook
PB G3 233 - Old Powerbook

Win2000, 2500XP, Radeon8500 - Marks PC
Win2000, 1700XP, Geforce 3Ti - Doms PC
Win2000, 1500XP, AllinWonder Radeon - Video PC
Win2000, 1200AMD, Radeon - Doms PC 2

I don't believe in calling my computers names since you are making them your friend, while they are just tools. When people start to call their tools names, they are spending too much time with them, this actually causes psycological problems when people reach old age. This is similar to what young children (and some adults) do when they create imaginary friends. I am not trying to judge anyone that does it, just making them aware of the issues.

[maradong]

Gandalf,
kahuna lapa'au ( hawaii => healer , doctor )

[RandomDeadHead]

Blotter

[scem0]

Originally posted by eyelikeart
my iMac I named "iMac" & my TiBook I named "Powerbook G4"

the hard drives...80GB in the iMac is "80GB" & the 30GB in the Ti is "30GB"

analogously...my 120GB firewire drive is "120GB" & my 10GB firewire drive is "10GB"

word ;)

I am overwhelmed by your creativity :rolleyes:.

I could only guess what you would name a 40GB HD... ;)

I forgot to add that my Macintosh SE upstairs is named 'grandpa'.

scem0

[Doctor Q]

Originally posted by job
My iMac - batman
My brother's iMac - superman
My father's old 7200 - spiderman
My father's geological workstation - the_hulk
Can anyone detect a certain trend?Yes, of course. They are all male computers!

[Das]

I call my powerbook Mic, my 450 G4 Chupa and my PC Das. And when they crash I call them *@#(&^ #*&#@(*& peices of %^$@!

[jbomber]

Originally posted by hvfsl
PB G4 550 - G4 PowerBook
PB G3 233 - Old Powerbook

Win2000, 2500XP, Radeon8500 - Marks PC
Win2000, 1700XP, Geforce 3Ti - Doms PC
Win2000, 1500XP, AllinWonder Radeon - Video PC
Win2000, 1200AMD, Radeon - Doms PC 2

I don't believe in calling my computers names since you are making them your friend, while they are just tools. When people start to call their tools names, they are spending too much time with them, this actually causes psycological problems when people reach old age. This is similar to what young children (and some adults) do when they create imaginary friends. I am not trying to judge anyone that does it, just making them aware of the issues.

I look forward to dottering around the nursing homes talkin about 'Val' and 'Nia'. It'll give me something to do while i wait for the nurses to bring me my pills.

[bryanc]

I've already picked a name for my dual 2 GHz G5:

"Cerebus"

[Royal Pineapple]

dont have a name besides "iBook" but my external HD partitions are called Calvin and Hobbes
with cool icons too :D

[SubGothius]

My primary machine is an 8600/200 tower which I got to take home as a "lovely parting gift" when I got laid off from my last job; it was neglected and ailing when I'd first found and claimed it there, so I'd cobbled it back to health with drives, RAM, cache, and PCI cards salvaged from several other abused and deceased old Macs I'd found languishing in the company boneyard, and therefore, I dubbed it...

ƒrænk€n†ø§h™ :D

My other Mac, first one I ever had and still going strong ~8 years later, is a 7200/75 (W00t! 75MHz, baby! :D ) long dubbed since its infancy as §µßGø†h¡µ§™ (unsurprisingly), but when I finally cured the 8600's remaining post-ressurrection blues, moved all my stuff onto its volumes and started using that as my primary machine, I then wiped and renamed the 7200 to ¶rø†øGø†h¡µ§™ (since the §µßGø†h¡µ§™ drive had moved on up into the tower).

The primary boot volumes have the same names as the Macs' network names; I also have various other volumes named:

§µ¶råGø†h¡µ§™
MætåGø†h¡µ§™
¶æråGø†h¡µ§™
¶ræGø†h¡µ§™
Çrµ¢¡ß£€ (700MB partition for staging CD-R burns :cool: )

(Note: if yr not reading this on a Mac -- and really, why wouldn't you ;) -- those names might look even more like gibberish than they already are, since they use option-key characters aplenty; I only use a regular letter for network/volume names when I can't find a similar-looking option-key character to use instead -- sorta like a Mac variant of "133+ 5p3ak"... :D )

Edit: Hm, apparently the leading curly-S (option-b) characters were the only ones that didn't make it into the post -- got replaced by "?" -- so I edited them to section symbols (option-6) for legibility (relatively speaking :) ).

[macguymike]

You and your brother are into DC and your father is a Marvel fan. :D

Originally posted by job
My iMac - batman

My brother's iMac - superman

My father's old 7200 (with a 7500 mobo and a ZIF G3/400Mhz upgrade) - spiderman

My father's geological workstation - the_hulk

Can anyone detect a certain trend? ;)

Those names are also the network names of the computers. All of them are connected via Airport or the x86 equivalent.

[vollspacken]

hehe, most of you won't be able to understand the names since they are German, but I'll try to translate... ;)

1Ghz tiBook - "Bundeskanzleramt" (Engl.: Office of the Federal Chancellor)

loaded SE/30 Fileserver - "Kanzlerbungalow" (Engl.: Chancellor Bungalow)

I still have to make up a name for my soon-to-arrive pizzabox LC... maybe the name of the place in Italy our chancellor used to go to for vacation, mawharharhar :D

vSpacken

[Schiffi]

bah, don't most of you know the name of your computer (mac) is in System Preferences in Sharing? Anyway, I aptly named mine Skynet.

[job]

Originally posted by macguymike
You and your brother are into DC and your father is a Marvel fan. :D

Hahahaha...I didn't even notice that. :D

[Flowbee]

My Pismo is "Sputnik Sweetheart"
My Cube is "Hard-Boiled Wonderland"

Both after books by Haruki Murakami.

[idea_hamster]

Rev. A TiBook: Buonarotti

HD Partitions: Alighieri, Vecelio, The Borg

iPod: Theotocopoulos

Borg is where I keep Virtual PC.
All the others share a common thread tho....

[crenz]

Originally posted by hvfsl
I don't believe in calling my computers names since you are making them your friend, while they are just tools.

Well, I don't agree that by naming something, I am making it a friend. People also name their pets, yet they aren't friends (at least to me).

I name my computers for network purposes -- makes it easier to interact. It is a long-standing tradition for network admins to use one scheme to name all the computers in a network, so I chose the names of the characters in the German version of Sesame Street :)


G3 266: Tiffy (a bit like Big Bird in the American version)
Linux server: Ernie (small and smart :) )
Windows workstation: Bert (big and dumb :) , now out of service)
SUN SparcStation Server: Samson (no equivalent in American version; big brown bear)
exstreamer (MP3-Streamer): Elmo
Sharp Zaurus: Z (no Sesame Street name yet...)

[TEG]

Being originally from Hawaii, I picked a Hawaiian theme for my Macs.

Powerbook G4 - Waipahu (City on Oahu)
(Future) iPod - Ohana (Pearl)

All my PCs have Star Trek related names becaue I started to name them before I got into Macs.

Father's PC - Chekov
Mother's PC - Sulu
Father's old PC - Xon
Mother's old PC - Data
Father's Lodge PC - DellPOS
Original 386 (DTK) - Uhura

TEG

[vollspacken]

Originally posted by crenz

G3 266: Tiffy (a bit like Big Bird in the American version)
Windows workstation: Bert (big and dumb :) , now out of service)


hehe, Tiffy... that's funny *LOL*

...why don't you name the windows workstation Herr von Boedefeld???

;)

vSpacken

[mac15]

Chris McElligott's Computer :P

[celaurie]

Originally posted by Kwyjibo
ibob or KiBook, i write KiBook and say iBob

Are you nuts?

[celaurie]

We'de done this thread before, I'm sure of it!

No matter, my iBook's called Jadzia. But I do have a history of naming my Macs (http://celaurie.worldonline.co.uk/macs.html).

[Phil Of Mac]

Power Macintosh 6100/60: Sally
iMac (233): iSally
iMac (400): Jennifer

I am not sure what to name my PowerBook when I get it. I'll think of something.

[applemacdude]

G3 Minitower = Sousha(primary hd) artemis(secondary)
Pb3400=Dalia
Mac SE= Old Geezer
Mac 7500= Ricardo
my pc= big piece of monkey ****