What Is Your Mac's/iPod's/iPhone's Name?

[Sesshi]

I do call them names often, but as far as their designation goes it's usually what's default.

 

[NC MacGuy]

Depends on how its working - or not!

Most names used are definitely not ready for primetime when expressed.

 

[jb60606]

well, as far as "host names":

Windows Vista Box: Ragnarock
RedHat Enterprise Server box: Red-Hate
Mac Pro box: CaponesVLT (Capone's Vault)
Suse Workstation box: SuseQ
Windows Server 2003 Enterprise box: Payton (As in Walter Payton)
iBook G4 Notebook: White-Trash

 

[LizKat]

Of course I give my iPods names, how else would i know which machine to load them from. I have no clue what their serial numbers are even though that info is on the same screen as the names in the Settings / About page.

I keep a cribsheet with their names (yah, and the serial#s) and the name of the machine I usually load each one from. After awhile I don't need the cribsheet to know that I load BigDog from the 15" powerbook. I'd still be trying to memorize the serial numbers, never mind which laptop each iPod gets loaded from.

Just the other day I read that because of how the human brain originally was "wired" to handle numeric concepts, and because of differences in how various languages express numbers, native English-speakers can generally only remember a string of 7 digits easily, whereas native Japanese-speakers can just as easily remember up to 11 digits.

fwiw that's why my cribsheet is organized by the NAME of my pods, not their 11-character letter/number designations.

Anyway I cannot tell you my iPods' names (i made BigDog up although I have considered that for a Classic if I cave in and get one), because that is classified information

 

[Melrose]

I call mine Mr. MacBook Pro.

 

[Love]

iMac (acts as admin and server computer of sorts) - Supreme Commander
MacBook (client) - Number Two (austin powers reference)
WD MyBook 250GB HDD(time machine backup) - Mr. Slave (southpark reference)
Siemens Switch - Assistant to the Supreme Commander (office reference)

 

[SkyBell]

"The Thing" - you gotta admit, it has possibilities.




It really is called that, but only because I tend to think very slowly when I talk (It's a constant problem when talking to new people, when I get my words mixed up or leave words out of sentences) and so "computer" doesn't come to mind, so it's become an automatic reflex to say "the thing" when referring to it.

 

[clayj]

Devices with DHCP addresses on my home network:

Apple
Ecliptic = Mac Pro
Dynamic = MacBook Air
Idyllic = Mac mini Core Duo
Xenophobic = Mac mini Core Solo
Gigantic = 160 GB iPod Classic
Hypnotic = 60 GB 5G iPod
Microscopic = 8 GB 2G iPod nano
Telephonic = 16 GB iPhone

Other
Logic = Microsoft Exchange 2003 Server
Synthetic = Microsoft Windows Vista VM running in VMware Fusion on Mac Pro
Supersonic = Sony VGN-FX290 laptop
Archaic = Sony PCG-R505TSK laptop
Harmonic = Roku SoundBridge radio
Panoramic = Elgato HDHomeRun
Euphoric = Sony LocationFree TV
Anthropic = Xbox 360 in living room
Baryonic = Xbox 360 in bedroom

I don't own these things. They own me. I keep them supplied with power and network connectivity and tend to their every need.

 

[jalagl]

Macbook = jMacbook
iPod = jPod
iPhone = jPhone

Yes, highly original, I know...

My external hard drives have names of planets from the Dune books:

250GB: Tleilax
320GB: Caladan
500GB: Arrakeen
120GB: GiediPrime
80GB: Ix

And the removable and thumb drives have a common theme:
40GB: UNINVITED
4GB: INTRUDER
1GB: THIEVERY
128MB: ASSAILANT

 

[clayj]

Macbook = jMacbook
iPod = jPod
iPhone = jPhone

Yes, highly original, I know...

My external hard drives have names of planets from the Dune books:

250GB: Tleilax
320GB: Caladan
500GB: Arrakeen
120GB: GiediPrime
80GB: Ix

And the removable and thumb drives have a common theme:
40GB: UNINVITED
4GB: INTRUDER
1GB: THIEVERY
128MB: ASSAILANT

Strictly speaking, you know that Arrakeen is the name of the capital city of the planet of Arrakis, right? (Arrakeen is also the adjectival form of Arrakis: "We will fight until no Harkonnen breathes Arrakeen air.")

 

[Soundie]

I haven´t named any of my apple products, but my HD´s name is "SCRAT", after this little fella:

 

[Markleshark]

Only useful names that means I know what things are on my network and my Mac. like my iTunes drive is called... iTunes.

 

[SilentPanda]

Mac Pro - Serenity
Apple TV - Shepherd Book
iPod Nano - STOP BEING FAT --- (I used it for the Nike+... )
iPod - Kaylee Frye
iPhone - Galactica --- (not sure why it didn't get a firefly name)

My Shuffle and Powerbook had names but I use them so little I think they got reformatted and default named.

 

[PowerFullMac]

My iPod Touch is Fredrick, Fred for short

When I get my MacBook that will be The Stig (Top Gear reference)

 

[Tallest Skil]

Future Mac Pro: The Penultimate
iBook: The Lappy
iPhone: The Trinity
iPod nano (1st): The Svelte
iPod shuffle (2nd): The Erratic
LC 575: The Forgotten (Poland)
eMate 300: The Newton
Apple ][e: The Archaic

 

[d_and_n5000]

My friend and I have this thing where when we name our iPods, we name the other person's, and the color of it has to be involved in some way.

She has a silver 2G iPod nano, so I named her's "Silver Baby".
I have a black 5.5G iPod, so she named mine "Black Velvet".

I haven't decided what to call the PowerBook yet. But, now I think of it, it needs to be something black-related, seeing as its black.

Hmm....

Black Beauty?

Nah, too unoriginal....

I'll get back to ya.

 

[nbs2]

Yeah. My PB is Dr. No. My iPods are Honey Rider and Tatiana Romanova (but all of my portable consumer electronics share names from that batch, so my next purchase is scheduled for Tracy di Vicenzo).

 

[furcalchick]

macbook's name is chipper (named after chipper jones), and huddy is currently the name of my 1st gen black nano (because tim hudson is skinny).

 

[jalagl]

Strictly speaking, you know that Arrakeen is the name of the capital city of the planet of Arrakis, right? (Arrakeen is also the adjectival form of Arrakis: "We will fight until no Harkonnen breathes Arrakeen air.")

Yes, I know... I originally it was only planets, but I didn't want to use the name Arrakis or Dune (don't know why, just didn't feel right...), so I used its capital city instead.

 

[JDR]

My iPod Touch is Fredrick, Fred for short

When I get my MacBook that will be The Stig (Top Gear reference)

Ah, The Stig. You better be getting a white one.

As for me, I haven't ever considered naming my iBook or Video iPod..

 

[iMpathetic]

Ah, The Stig. You better be getting a white one.

As for me, I haven't ever considered naming my iBook or Video iPod..

I have...

My iBook is called Chico.
My iPod video which I got rid of the other day is called Mr. Pod.
My 5GB iPod is Beastly Brick.
My touch is The iPod.
My MacBook I call "the mub".

 

[viniciusc]

MacBooks is called Polly.

 

[kuebby]

I've just started naming my Apple stuff and I'm not finished yet, but here's what I have:

MacBook Pro: The Pro from Dover (M*A*S*H)
HD: Skynet (Terminator)
Time Capsule: HAL (2001: A Space Odyssey)
nano: Butch Coolidge (Pulp Fiction)
iPhone: Zoidberg (Futurama)

 

[doubleohseven]

When I get my MacBook that will be The Stig (Top Gear reference)

My iPod was once called The Stig, now it's Pigeon.

 

[bigdz68]

Gravitas
Murcaptain
P403171X

and quite a few other stern show references too