Name for New Macbook

[alexcooke]

Hey All,
Long time reader, first time poster.

Recently bought a Macbook and currently trying to think of a name for it. All my previous computers have had names that have two meanings, and i'm having terrible difficulty thinking up one for the Macbook. It arrives soon so I need the name ASAP

Specs:

• MacBook 2.0GHz Intel Core Duo (White)
• 2.0GHz Intel Core Duo
• 512MB 667 DDR2 SDRAM
• 80GB Serial ATA drive
• SuperDrive (Burns DVDs & CDs)
• Apple Mini-DVI to VGA Adapter
• Keyboard/Mac OS
• Country Kit (Australia)

Past Computer Names:

• Mac Desktop: Gnosis (Greek for Knowledge, applies because my partner is currently trying to teach me greek at the moment
• Old PC Laptop: Psyche (psyche means soul, and that laptop was like my soul)
• Old PC Desktop: Sciatica (Sciatica is a disease that travels down the Sciatic nerve creating a pain in your ass. Computer was a pain in the ass!)

Possibly thinking something along the lines of:

• Seele (german for soul - again, laptop is like my soul)
• Gehirn (german for brain - laptop holds all my information, like my brain

Any ideas along those lines would be greatly appreciated.

AC -x0x-

 

[bigandy]

i honestly don't know, but because it's white, why not make this the drive icon:

and call it Whitey

(from Me, Myself & Irene, FYI)

 

[andrew050703]

Past Computer Names:

• Mac Desktop: Gnosis (Greek for Knowledge, applies because my partner is currently trying to teach me greek at the moment
• Old PC Laptop: Psyche (psyche means soul, and that laptop was like my soul)
• Old PC Desktop: Sciatica (Sciatica is a disease that travels down the Sciatic nerve creating a pain in your ass. Computer was a pain in the ass!)

Possibly thinking something along the lines of:

• Seele (german for soul - again, laptop is like my soul)
• Gehirn (german for brain - laptop holds all my information, like my brain

something like ...

Gaia?

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hypothesis)

I just name mine for fictional characters

 

[weiss]

something like ...

Gaia?

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hypothesis)

I just name mine for fictional characters

Three suggestions borrowed from greek mythology:

Apollo - god of light, music, healing, prophecy, the sun and poetry
Athena - goddess of wisdom
Hemera - goddess of the daylight

 

[alexcooke]

Apollo - god of light, music, healing, prophecy, the sun and poetry

Definatly going to consider Apollo considering I will be using the laptop partly for DJing. Great suggestions guys, keep them coming!

AC -x0x-

 

[datababe]

Funny, but I realized a while back all my Macs have feminine names: Precious, Princess, Velma, and Leia...but my 2 Windows boxen have masculine names: Elmo and Lazarus.

I'm seeing a pattern here. lol

datababe

 

[archurban]

wow, so macs have become pets? I have been past a lot of macs. but I never named them. they're all just macs. not anymore.

 

[MattDell]

Roger?

 

[steelfist]

Edward

Naruto

Luffy

Ichigo

Keitaro

 

[datababe]

We started naming our computers to identify them on our network and decided to have some fun with it. We've since switched to using mac addys, but the habit has stuck. ;-)

 

[joe8232]

My friends is called Humphrey! How about Jeeves or something like Fortiscue Merryweather III ??

 

[richard4339]

Name it Hades, cause the MacBook will be hot! (in more ways than one)

 

[2nyRiggz]

Or you can just name it macbook(well apple did this for you already & engraved it into the laptop) and use it

I like the name "The General"


Bless

 

[yellow]

Lord Philbert McNibbles, ESQ, DVM.

 

[ChickenSwartz]

My current computer is named "Rocksteady" my next will be called "Beebop" not sure after that.

 

[Sicarius]

I don't even have mine yet but it's name is Llandra (It means, "I have too much time and just make funny sounds that end up like names").

 

[xfiftyfour]

Mine is macbaby. heh.

My powerbook before it was peanutbutter (and our wireless network is jellynet..haha).

Kudos to you if you picked up on the pattern.

 

[gym class zero]

Named mine milky

 

[FleurDuMal]

Steve.

 

[jamone80]

Definatly going to consider Apollo considering I will be using the laptop partly for DJing. AC -x0x-

"symphony"

 

[flyfish29]

Three suggestions borrowed from greek mythology:

Apollo - god of light, music, healing, prophecy, the sun and poetry
Athena - goddess of wisdom
Hemera - goddess of the daylight

I have to say Apollo is awesome- so similar to Apple as well...maybe some way to work that in creatively in an icon- the light/music, etc fits your DJing for sure- maybe it could be your logo for your DJ biz?

 

[MistaBungle]

3G iPod - Maia (In Greek mythology, there were these sisters and Maia was the most beautiful of the sisters. The other sisters of course are the other mp3 players.)

Powerbook - Golden Dewishious (The computer is an Apple and the kid I babysit used to say dewishious instead of delicious)

My External HDD - Isthmus Major

My Thumbdrive - Isthmus Minor

My Memory Stick in my Camera - Tabula Rysa (It's a blank slate and my name is Ryan)


I personally like to make sure that the functionality is hidden in the name. I think Tabula Rysa examplifies that perfectly. As for the white Macbook, Anima (living essence). Based off of Aristotle "De Anima", "on the living essence/on the soul".

 

[vega07]

mine is machiavelli.

 

[The General]

All of my computers at the office are named after Battlestar Galactica characters, and the server is called galactica.

iMac G4 -> Apollo
iMac G3 -> Starbuck
PowerMac G5 -> Gaius
Macbook Pro -> Six (cause she's hot, just like my laptop, roffle )
Mac Pro (soon) -> Adama
PC POS -> Boomer (BOOM! )
xServer G5 -> Galactica

 

[viperguy]

Bomberman - because it might get really hot lol...