Do you name your computers?

[Will]

Some people name their cars.. I know someone who named her house.. I'm sure people name other.. inanimate objects.

I have a thing about naming my computers.. and until they have a name, (other than the factory rubbish) I don't let them on my network.

I won't just name them anything... normally, the name has something to do with how it looks, or with something I was doing at the time.

I've had way too many computers in my lifetime to name them all, but here's a few... my army of laptops is easiest to explain.

Zeus - My first laptop.. he was a Hewlett Packard ze4410us laptop. Using the first and last letters from the model number, gave me Zeus.
Tuna - My second laptop.. bought from a friend of mine and so named because she had a silver belly. (the laptop.. not my friend)

And now.. probably the weirdest name I've given one of my computers..

Voxin - My current laptop.. around the time I bought him, I'd rediscovered the glory of Dune II - Battle for Arrakis.. this was the first game I installed on my brand new super cool uber laptop that I bought to play WoW on, after playing it on Tuna became too unbearable. Anyway, I had kept a game editor for Dune, part of which was able to extract every single soundfile from the game. The files came out with a .VOX extension, and for an afternoon, I was *.VOX'in it up.. playing the soundfiles for my own amusement with sounds such as "Enemy Harvester, Destroyed".. or the dreaded "Wormsign".

I name my computers.. and sometimes, Hard Drives. And I call them by those names. "Oh.. just copy that over to Aggy".. "Which drive is it on?" "Gigantor, I think." (Gigantor is a 1TB drive hooked up to a HDD Dock)

So yes.. I name my computers.

Do you?

[Sam Burns]

HAL. Unorignal I know but thats what the power button on the front always reminds me of. My mums computer is called SAL. WEIRD? what do you think?

[Hannah the Elf]

Well, I named my old computer Bum, because it's a lot more fun to yell 'Hurry up , Bum!' than any other names =)

And I named my ipod nano Iggy. I have no idea why, it just fits him.

[Migdala Vered]

I've been staring at this thread since you started it, trying to think of a name. I can't think of a good one for my computer. It's a shite little thing... L'ordinateur de merde.
My car's name is Bipsy, though. She's a lovely dear, 13 years old. (That's about 60 in car years).

[CaptainElaine(Strawbee)Harkness]

My computer sadly lost her name the day my father killed her internet...her spirit broke and she hates doing anything more that playing music for me...and occasionally a dvd...
Maybe I'll name her something new, and fitting to her new personality.

Help me find a name!

[dylan lind]

i named my computer death in the night yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[Katie]

Yes...my present laptop is called Quintessa.....Just Because....

[theepilougewascrap]

I named my iPod Jett and my laptop Fluoritia, because it's about the color of Fluorite. BAM.