So.. i just bought an apple laptop and am trying to come up with stupid names for it..

so far my existing boxes and names are:

nokia (gateway server at home)
fwinky (file server at home)
broken (my linode)
ctrl-alt-dell (dell laptop)
????? (insert name for aple here)

suggestions?

cheers
Nathan "internat" Frankish

How about one of these?
http://www.bestapples.com/varieties/

I name my servers after ED drugs.

First server: viagra
Second server: levitra
Current server: cialis

I figure, hey, I want it to stay up, right?

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Jay Faulkner
http://oldos.org

I've named my servers after famous people in science. And yes, I'm quite a science fan (as well as a science-fiction fan).

Linode 1: edison
Linode 2: newton
Dedicated server: nansen

The last one is located downtown from my physical location (Ålesund, Norway).

My personal server at home doesn't follow that naming scheme, though. That one's called "gammern" ("gammer'n" is slang for "old guy" in Norwegian), more or less because it's an old one (AMD K6 233 Mhz, 160MB RAM, 6GB HDD, and it's still able to run Gentoo Linux).

scrumpy

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Rgds
Stephen
(Linux user since kernel version 0.11)

wozniak, or just woz

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/ Peter

I've had a number of machine names over the years... currently:

godzilla - a mongo fileserver with 4x120GB RAID5 and 2x120GB RAID1

wibble - a Shuttle SK41G cube

roadwarrior (only when running Windows) - a ThinkPad T22 (it just gets a random DHCP address when running Linux)

jake, elwood, and bluelou - xenU instances when wibble is running Xen

skynet - a Linksys WRT54G running Sveasoft Satori in bridge mode, hooked to a D-Link DI-514 connected to a cantenna that shoots a signal through a couple of buildings over to a coffee shop that I go to, so I can take the laptop there

The cantenna was made from a Glenfarclas Scotch whisky tin. That's right, for the price of the commercially made "Super Cantenna," you can get a DIY version that comes with a free bottle of very good Scotch.

Another cantenna, made from a ravioli can, gets hooked to the laptop for coffee shop use...

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Bus error (passengers dumped)

I name all my computers after rock stars...

metallica
dio
priest
judas
(priest is my linode in gentoo, judas is the same in debian for backup recovery)
icedearth
ozzy

etc etc etc

hooboy -_-

If you think your machines might last a real long time, name them:

cheops, giza, sphinx, 7wonders

If your theme is eventual world domination, perhaps:

pinky, thebrain, microsoft, grandpoobah

If your theme is number-crunching to answer the universe's greatest mysteries:

seti, et, 42

If you think these are sexy machines, then:

jenna, ron, peter, debbie

If you've got a pretty secure network, then:

moat, gatekeeper, drawbridge, mace

In the case of a nice MacOS X-based laptop, I might go for eyecandy as the hostname.

Ah, the possibilities are endless.

the IT guy from a previous employer of mine named all the hosts after battles of the American civil war.

My machines are named after beer brands or styles.

Linode: stout.
Home PC: chimay
Laptop: ipa
PDA: cascade (Tasmanian beer)

Have compies named:

Erwin
Marvin
Vogon

worm, jack, butter, cider, crisp, pie, dumpling, schnapps

rotten, core, mcintosh (its a type of apple fruit as well as PC), granny smith, sour, tree, stem, newtonsmasher, etc, etc

I take it you're not particulary fond of Apple?