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Apple ][e: The Archaic (Okay, so it doesn't remember its own name... who cares?)
LC 575: The Elder
eMate 300: The Dependent (battery's dead; only works on AC :p)
iMac DV: The Safeguard
G3 iBook: The Outpost
Core 2 iMac: The Quintessence
Nehalem Mac Pro: The Penultimate (when I get one)

1st gen iPod Nano: The Lilliputian
2nd gen iPod Shuffle: The Erratic
iPhone: The Trinity

Yes, I have a fondness for definite articles.
 
MacBook Pro: Willow (sharing name: Sunnydale)
Powerbook G4: formerly Willow, now no name
Printer: Giles
Old iPod: Xander
Current iPod: Lorne
iDisk: Fred
External FW drive: Angel
Backup partition of the FW drive: Angelus
AirPort network name: Faith
Old Dell laptop: Spike
Ancient Gateway desktop: Drusilla
Even more ancient Gateway laptop: Anya
USB key: Dawn
SD card in my Treo 700p: Tara
SD card in my digital camera: Joss

I find this all terribly clever and it amuses and delights me every single day.

buffy much?
 
Macbook: Serenity
Main HD: 飞行员 (Chinese for "Pilot")
External HD's: Persephone, Sihnon, and Miranda
iPod Mini: Blue Sun (with one of these to legitimize the name)
Flash Drive: Firefly

Notice a theme? :D

jW
 
I'm not very creative, but it removes guesswork:

iMac - zarpMac
iBook - zarpBook
iPod [nano] - zarpPod [nano]
iPhone - zarpPhone
Apple TV - zarpTV
 
PB: HobbitBook
MBP: HobbitBook II
iMac: HobbitMac
30gb 5th gen iPod: HobbitPod
iPod Touch : HobbitTouch
 
Mine!
iPods: mythological music
iPod 1g: Seirḗn (a Greek Siren Goddess)
iPod Nano 2g: Orpheus (you know this one)

Macs: fictional human-computer hybrids
Powermac G4: Athena (Battlestar Galactica's Sharon "Athena" Agathorn)
Powerbook G4: Lain (Serial Experiments Lain's Lain Iwakura)
Macbook Pro: Motoko (Ghost In The Shell's Motoko Kusanagi)
:)
 
Naming your devices

So folks, what do you people name your 'devices'?

I'll start...

MacBook Pro - Espada
HD in MBP - Athenes
Windows Partition on the HD - Rhodes
Primary external HD - Babylon
iPod Touch - Olympia
 
All of mine have labels saying 'SEARCH BEFORE YOU POST A THREAD'

In other news.
MacBook = Zeus
iPod = Tantalus
 
All of mine have labels saying 'SEARCH BEFORE YOU POST A THREAD'

In other news.
MacBook = Zeus
iPod = Tantalus

Yeah yeah, I know theres been a million other threads like this; but I still like em :p - anyways we get new devices once in a while ;) might as well brag about the pretty names we've chosen
 
MacBook Pro: Sela

Its a Hebrew girl's name meaning "rock". Seemed appropriate given OS X's rock solid stability.
 
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