What do you name your devices?

mentaluproar · Dec 7, 2012

Since I was in high school, I tried to keep a theme in naming my equipment. Until recently, their names were:

ipad 2: Dot Matrix
ipod touch: Enzo (retired, or is he?)
iphone 4s: Glitch
Vaio: Hex (renamed fracture after the screen started to bleed, but I'm ready to forgive and change the name back)
router: Phong
mac mini: Caanan (got bored at this point)

What names have you given your equipment? Except for the Mini, everything it named after characters from Reboot.

unixperience · Dec 7, 2012

macbook = leprechaun assault
ipod = pixie dust
external hdd1 = beavcoon
external hdd2 = leprachaun
external hdd3 - unicorn

haha my theme is cheesy mythical creature type things

Renzatic · Dec 7, 2012

iPad 3: Matt Pad
iPhone 4: Matt Phone
Computer 1: Mattputer 1
Computer 2: Mattputer 2

...I dunno if I'm uninspired, or incredibly egocentric.

Love · Dec 7, 2012

iPhone 5: The Lightsabre
MacBook Pro: Thor the Four Core Whore (a name I stole and I used on the Mac Pro preceding the MBP)

mentaluproar · Dec 7, 2012

Love said:
MacBook Pro: Thor the Four Core Whore

I dont think we can top that one.

mobilehaathi · Dec 8, 2012

The phone is Rocinante. The iMac and MacBookPro are different primates.

Banga · Dec 8, 2012

Always stick with Asterix characters.
Network: Gaul
Laptop: Asterix
Desktop: Obelix
Phone: Dogmatix
iPad: Fullyautomatix
Router/firewall: Getafix
Media server: Cacofonix

They're great as I pick a character that symbolises what the item does.

Jessica Lares · Dec 8, 2012

I've only been naming my iOS devices...

iPhone 2G/4 - Songbird - Because it's an iPod and a phone, and birds can fly, and phones can fly across the room/move around with you.

(actually a song, but that's pretty much why)

iPod Nano (okay, not iOS, but looks like iOS) - Cloudy (because it's blue)

iPad Mini - Midnight

Macman45 · Dec 8, 2012

Hugely boring:

Jeffs Imac
Jeffs Macbook Pro
Jeffs Macbook Air
Jeffs Ipad 4
Jeffs Iphone 5
....It gets worse:

Jeffs Time Capsule
Jeffs Airport Express

Living Room ATV3
Bedroom ATV3
....And The Pegasus R4?:

...Wait for it....Pegasus R4...

ChristianVirtual · Dec 8, 2012

Until all the iDevices I named my PCs, Mac and *nix boxes after mainly military aircraft like Tomcat, Eagle, Falcon, Hornet, Galaxy, Blackbird, ...

With the increased number of iPad, iPod, iPhones I got too lazy and use something like
MyPad3,
NoPhone (my old iPhone without SIM) etc.

I keep the generation in the name as I sometimes have different generation at the same time.

Shrink · Dec 8, 2012

Macman45 said:
Hugely boring:

Jeffs Imac
Jeffs Macbook Pro
Jeffs Macbook Air
Jeffs Ipad 4
Jeffs Iphone 5
....It gets worse:

Jeffs Time Capsule
Jeffs Airport Express

Living Room ATV3
Bedroom ATV3
....And The Pegasus R4?:

...Wait for it....Pegasus R4...

Same here. Mine are simply my full name preceding the device.

What a coincidence!!!

twietee · Dec 8, 2012

my MBA is called airJordan. The phone iWinter or something, not very creative - hate to give these things names tbh.

adm.hpe · Dec 9, 2012

Adam's iPhone 5 :apple:

Love · Dec 9, 2012

mentaluproar said:
I dont think we can top that one.

Must give credit to where it's due, to http://www.youtube.com/adiblasi who created that gem.

MrKambo · Dec 9, 2012

I call my phone Erin, my iPad......iPad

Ariii · Dec 9, 2012

I only name my HDD's

.

•40 GB stock TiBook drive: Amber.
•Noisy 10GB drive in iBook Clamshell: Chaos.
•326 MB drive in PowerBook 520c: Tir'na Nog'th

0098386 · Dec 9, 2012

I name mine after rock things/planets usually.

iPhone: Obelisk
iPod shuffle: Shard
iPad: Slate

Consoles get named after spacey things;
PS Vita: Nova
PSP: Luna
(and the rest I can't remember!)

jasonvp · Dec 9, 2012

Batman Rogues

Other than my iPhone, I generally name my machines after members of Batman's rogues gallery.

Mac Pro: mrfreeze
Macbook Pro: anarky
Windows gaming rig: scarecrow
NAT: twoface
AT&T Microcell device: ventriloquist
NAS: bane
DNS/Mail/etc generic VM: joker

My VMWare server is called arkham, which is where a number of the "rogue" VMs including joker all live.

jas

muon25 · Dec 9, 2012

I name my computers after planets and my networks after solar systems.

MisterKeeks · Dec 9, 2012

It depends on the context-
an iMac G3, the iMac G3,
I never really thought to name my computers. I would just associate the name I gave it to its real name.

Pinkie Pie · Dec 9, 2012

Usually character names. My iPod with an awesome fire/Phoenix themed sticker cover was Fawkes. My iPhone is Rarity because it's white and elegant and my Macbook is Celestia because it's white and ... Idk, the most powerful? The queen? My ipad is Pikachunicorn because WHY NOT

iJohnHenry · Dec 9, 2012

I call my '08 iMac HAL, even though I should call it Alex, the new voice for Leopard.

My cell has no name, but I should call it Bongo, as it's been dropped on concrete/asphalt so many times. Or perhaps Timex, because it takes a linkin' and keeps on tickin'.

I also have Toasty, Nukey, and KIA in the garage.

Margaret, my A/C, has been removed from the window. (Don't even go there.)

184550 · Dec 9, 2012

I've always found it rather odd that people name their electronics. It's rather off putting, IMO.

mentaluproar · Dec 9, 2012

It's a nerd thing. Each computer needs a name to identify itself on a network.

Macman45 · Dec 10, 2012

Shrink said:
Same here. Mine are simply my full name preceding the device.

What a coincidence!!!

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