[DocWest]

I don't know why I'm asking, but I guess I'd just like to know what cool names you've got for your computers.

I really don't care if it's something like "MyMac" or "GeeThree", just put in your computer's names.

I'm sure all of us mac users have names FAR better than "C Drive", so let's see what you've got.

BTW, mine is "MyMac". And yes, I know it sounds pretty lame, but it's an iMac and it's mine.

Show Me What You Got.
Doc West

[keyser_soze]

mine's pretty lame too
MiMac
only i kinda slur the i into 2 words
pronounced (m m k)

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[GORDYmac]

iMac. It's his name, like I just shut iMac down, iMac just went to sleep. It really irritates some people.

[Trapper]

I dont know why, but I call my blueberry 350 "Dino." I'm sure the name would make more sense if I had a grape iMac, but for some reason, the name seems appropriate. It just kinda fits.

[wlonh]

ScHmOoGiE, thing, ShoOka, Wazzie, and Yabba.

what a happy family

[virga42]

I have named my imac Nimbus and my ibook Virga.
I enjoy clouds and weather. I also like the sounds of the words themselves.
Nimbus can mean a radiant light that appears usually in the form of a circle or halo about or over the head in the representation of a god, demigod, saint, or sacred person such as a king or an emperor. Virga is a light rain that evaporates before it hits the ground.

[disectamac]

iMac HD= Overmind
Desktop Folder= SubOvermind
10GB Lacie HD= Cerabrate
Lacie DT Folder= SubCerabrate
VPC Drive = Zerg
VPC 2nd drive= Infested Terran

I like the Starcraft names....and the Infested Zerg names are fitting for anything Wintel.

Mac OS 9 partition: Hermes
Darwin Partition: Praetorian
Linux partition: (no name, not visible) but if i could, i would call it "large hung of unused space"

[Dalgo]

"Hot Garbage" because someone once described it as such.

[outZider]

My DV's name is Lydia.. my Rev D was Celeste, and my IIci is Margaret.

[wlonh]

Lydia, oh Lydia... that encyclopedia!
Lydia the tatooed lady!

(Groucho Marx)

I call my strawberry iMac...Strawbaby!

[Kozmik]

My LC is known as Elsie, my Quadra 630 is known as Jericho, and I have several unofficial names for the iMac DV SE.

[garrettnelson]

iMac DV = Descartes
9500 = Sartre
7100 = Socrates
6400 = Aristotle
6300CD = Foucalt
PowerBook 540c = Hypatia
II/fx = Plato
SE30 = Kant
MP2100 = Spinoza

a philosophical touch....

[wlonh]

what? no Hegel or Neitsche?

[disectamac]

you didn't name one confucious?!?!

[garrettnelson]

Sorry, I only have so many computers! Better partition off the hard drives.

[garrettnelson]

BTW, Nietzche went insane. Better make that the VirtualPC drive.

[DocWest]

MacPlus - Max
Mac SE - He used to be called Speedy, but I don't think he uses that name any more.
Quadra 610 - Usually just called The Quaddy.

My imac is now called Pegasus(horse with wings).

Because it's a legend and fast

[imacman11]

Partition 1:
Apollyon (Ancient Greek for "The Destroyer")

Partition 2:
FireStorm

my DV/SE doesnt have a name yet, because i just havent had time to give him one. my quadra 650 is called burn daddy, because i only have it out to burn cds, as i have a scsi burner. my se/30 is called old man, for obvious reasons. i named my printer kauhikoa, after a hawaiian chief who never stopped working. he kept working till the day he died. how does that fit my printer? its a used color stylewriter pro. many many years old, and still going.

dabradda

[Ca$h68]

Either iMac or iMax... cuz its pretty maxxed out. Heheh.

333mhz (gonna be 400)
12 gig (40 gig this summer)
voodoo2
192 megs ram
top secret project in progress.

Ca$h

[DBursey]

My iMac's hard drive is called Top Cat ... complete with a "kitty" icon. My friend's HD was called 'Big Dog'; He has dogs, I have cats. Other than that, the iMac is usually referred to as 'the mac'.

[DBursey]

Hey Ca$h, when are we gonna hear about this top secret project of yours? Gettin' kinda curious. Should we notify the fire dept.?

[Zwilnik]

My G3 is Dangermouse, and my iBook got called iClaudius (with twin 6 gig partitions named Romulus and Remus).

[mqymouse]

Let's see:

We've got the old clunker P550, which I love too much to disown:

Madeleine - internal
Mirabella - partition of external
Mae - second partition of external

Then the new grape iMac, which I absolutely adore:

Minerva - internal
Miranda - external

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Le ver vert va vers le verre vert.

[scottiB]

Tangerine iMac/266: Elroy...

I belive I read somewhere that 'Elroy' was an Apple internal development name for the iMac. Even of it's not; the name stuck.

Haven't named my Pismo, yet.

[Scott_H]

Hi,

My lime iMac is "Orbit". Because he's a green glowing orb. My lime Visor is Orbit Jr.

Scott H.

[Josh Reid]

iMac DVSE Yertle The Turtle
iBook SE DewBead

-Josh =).

I've got a stoic looking G3 PowerBase tower and a cute Rev. B at home. Can u guess which is Mulder and which is Sculley

[brock76]

G3 350 B&W = Delta Flyer
7100/80 = Gossamer

Brock
[email protected]

iMac= Ethan
iBook= Sydney-Bryce
Color Classic= Adlin
P400= Autumn

Mac SE - Gomez
curvy black Zoom modem on the SE - Morticia
ImageWriter II - Lurch (you should hear it)
Mac IIsi - Pugsley (HDs Moof! and Kittycat)
Performa 636 - Wednesday (with HDs Friday, Ophelia, Cleopatra, Grandmama, Cousin Itt, Frump)
StyleWriter II - Uncle Fester
Quadra 700 - Gomez Jr.
Strawberry iMac - Zowie! (ok, its fast)
Blueberry iBook - Diva Plavalaguna

Should we name our scanner or ethernet hub? :-)

[Ca$h68]

Man...some of you guys have really lame names. no offense.... but names like Mildred or Tatijana don't seem to evoke a powerful stable mac in my opinion. HEhe. More like and old ladie's dog.

Ca$h

[huh?]

iMac 333 = "Darwin"
iMac DV = "Einstein"

My names tend to migrate across computers. The 333 used to be Einstein, and my old powerbook was Darwin (long before Darwin had anything to do with a MacOS). Then I dumped the PB and got a DV. That became Einstein and the 333 became Darwin.

I named my iBook Lyta (after that
red/orange haired telepath in Babylon 5. Plus she's hot. And my iBook is hot in its own way =) )
I also have a a little name for my Performa 6300CD. Usually it goes along the lines of PEICE OF **** . YOU SLOW F�CKING PIECE OF **** . STUPID SLOW PEICE OF CRAP!. You frustrating slow peice of crud. I really hate thet Performa you see. You can't appreciate the amount of grief and impatience that thing caused. I wanted a PB G3 but my Mom said "2000 and under" So I got her to buy me an iBook Tang with 160 MB of RAM.

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Hmmm I've never thought of naming my iMac although my Linux box is called Pandora. I'll probably move the name over.

iMac DV SE = simply "Rechner" (german for counting machine). I'm a real poet!


Performa 630 = "Puss" (my girlfriend uses it to write emails and chose a pinkcoloured desktop).

Performa 6300 = Kraftwerk (selfexplainating)

Soon to be 466Mhz rev.B: bluedog

Partition1: PigMode
Partition2: Baaah (you have to see the icon)

[disectamac]

Send the icon this way bluesea

[email protected]

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[sine -''-..-]

My Lime iMac's partitions are named Jobs and Woz,
Ironicly, the icons are the Newton logo

Oh well

[Stogieman]

I call my iMac DV SE - "Slim Shaddy." My Performa 6115 hasn't been cleaned in years so I call it "PigPen." And my Quadra 700, which sits near the window, has a yellow tint from receiving too much sunlight. So I call it "Old Yeller."

[Adam Silver]

This is in an old thread somewhere, but I might as well repost it to let new people see it:

Apple's code names are cooler than the real names it gives its computers. I undo Apple's damage by naming computers based on their code names.

I have named computers I have set up for myself and family members:

PowerBook 3400c (180 MHz): Hooper
another PowerBook 3400c (also 180 MHz): Kanga - this one almost got a PowerBook G3 logic board upgrade)
iMac (blueberry 333): Lifesavers
Power Macintosh G4 (Yikes! 400): Graphite

You're right, Graphite isn't the code name of any G4, but I don't like the name Yikes.

[disectamac]

Yeah but what if the code name really isn't the real code name? Just some rumor someone started when it really had a different code name to begin with but Apple never corrected the rumor people because if they did then that would confirm the existance of something that doesn't exist and would defeat the purpose of keeping the code name and the product a secret.
What if it was really "Palmo" instead of "Pismo" or "Yippie!" instead of "Yikes" or even worse, what if the code names are real but got mixed up and the Pismo is really Nintendo's Dolphin project but some chip engineer (leak) at motorola mixed them up.

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[Adam Silver]

Regardless of where they came from, most code names for Apple's computers are still cooler than their shipping names.

[scottiB]

For a little bit of code name history: http://www.apple-history.com/gallery.html

[DocWest]

heh,
my fav codename is one for the Mac Plus: Mr T. That's just cool.

[Palegolas]

My iMac's harddisk is called "Krita" which means "Chalk" or "Crayon" kind of, in Swedish. The icon is a box of crayons. You might have guessed it already, but I use my mac a lot for drawing and stuff... animating and creating DV even. Thank you Apple.

[smaffei]

iMac DV = Blueberry Hill
iBook = Tangerine Dream

Airport Base Station = Moonbase Alpha
This one comes from "Space: 1999". I bought it in 1999, it's a station and it's spacey looking. So, I gave it the name of the moon station from that series. It made sense at the time.