How do you name your computer(s)?

[Lord Xeb]

I generally name my computers based on what pops into my head first. Each install/re-install is has a different name. My current one is Omnious, but I have had others like Xebraethus (my XBL name, which was Lord Xebraethus), nathan (which is my real name), Xeb (again short for Xebraethus), my next may be Gaigolus (don't ask).

[SirThom]

When I was in High School I named my spray-painted blue TRS-80 Model 100 blue ice after how it looked. I was going to call it SubZero but I found out that that was the name of a mortal combat character, and everyone commented as such.
When the family got an iMac I didn't name it, but years later when I came back to help upgrade to the newest version of OS X, I names it Ultimo-4000. I wanted to name it after the Cartman robot on south park, but I forgot that it was called Awesome-O.
I had a radar detector names Dmitri (after the character from The Brothers Karazamakov).
I had a few used laptops that I messed about with in the very late 90s/ early 2000s which all exploded or collapsed in one way or another. I had wanted to install linux on them but one needed a LOT more technical expertise to do so back them. So I was stuck with Windows 95 or 3.1. One was a rubbish Compaq. Another was a butterfly keyboard thinkpad (I liked that one and was sad when it's battery exploded and flooded the board with battery acid). I can't remember what I named them, but the thinkpad had this wicked Sorayama desktop picture which looked really hot on the machine (especially when I opened it and the keyboard expanded).
My G4 Powerbook I named Woz. I emailed Woz to tell him and he thanked me for the honour. My iPod shuffle is named Jobs (I didn't compromise by getting a shuffle, guys, it's the one that best fits my needs). My Ubuntu powered hp pavilion laptop is named archimedes (because it's hot to not capitalise proper nouns, and I was on an archimedes of syracuse kick at the time).

and my cars, in order of ownership-
1989 Pontiac Grand Am - Gadgetmobile
1988 Toyota Camry - El Toro (I wanted to mount steer horns on the grille)
1986 VW Golf - Der Blaue Engel
1999 Honda Accord - The Black Plague

[Lord Xeb]

Cool. that is interesting..... Once I build a first full computer (it will be linux) I am not sure what I am going to name it.

[SirThom]

I'd like to build my next machine. Of course that won't be for a few years from now.
There are guides to how to do it on the interweb. Hopefully I won't screw up.

[kornhead127]

City and Ship names from The Matrix

Workgroup: Zion
Dell (family comp): nebuchadnezzar
My comp: vigilant
Laptop: logos

[Erdaron]

My computers form an imaginary Soviet army, so they are all Red[Something]. Present and past names include RedHQ, RedScout, RedMobile, and RedTank. I'm currently building a new box that will probably be named RedStriker. If I ever come around to buying one of those eeePC (or something similarly tiny), I want to name it RedSpetsnaz.

[frup]

a current naming scheme my brother and I are using for fun, and because thinking of names became boring, is having kind of palindromic letters that also read the same upside down.

for example, adpe, qunb etc.

[thschiavo]

My brother's computer name is ecstasy... There, my user is... jhon @ ecstasy....

Today, my desktop is BigLab and my laptop is LittleLab... Boring, isn't it? One year ago, my desktop was Tenac, from Tenacious D... Okay, these are the worst names, hahahaha

[diskotek]

Disko

[MissingLink]

Currently, I named it Skynet. I like the way it sounds