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For PCs name of the city where they are and number, for laptops abbreviation "Lap" and number but it's hardly a name?
| | | | Ivana Kahle 
Germany
Local time: 22:14
Member (2007)
German to Croatian
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| Another Dell Boy | Apr 5, 2011 |
@ Alexandra
I used to call my first computer Dell Boy too
Now I have two other computers and they don't have names - I simply call them "my desktop" and "my laptop".
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... I call my computer or my laptop bæstet - the beast when I'm annoyed with it. Usually in a wail for HELP from my husband who can sometimes tame it.
Otherwise it is my puter as opposed to his puter.
Actually he has three and I have two, and when not in use he puts the laptops in a safe place... or so he thinks.
Since the summer holiday two years ago, my flat screen has been locked to the desk with a bicycle chain and we can't find the key. ![]() ... See more
| | | | Patricia Charnet
United Kingdom
Local time: 21:14
Member (2009)
English to French
although maybe I should
hmmmm bibliotheca internetis
(no I'm sure that a Latinist will correct my declination if I got it wrong )
[Edited at 2011-04-05 13:31 GMT]
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I guess my pcs have several names, none of them is good, apart maybe from "baby" which is the way I called them when I'm really desperate and they keep not working.... the rest are all the bad words I can imagine everytime they have problems....;-)
| | | | Anne Wosnitza
Netherlands
Local time: 22:14
Member
English to German
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| I used to call my first computer... | Apr 5, 2011 |
...Silly Billy, as it never did what I wanted it to, playing games all time, so to speak. Those days, I didn't see it was actually me making it behave funny
My laptop is called Schleppi
[Bearbeitet am 2011-04-05 11:42 GMT]
| | | | Joy Lewis
Barbados
Local time: 16:14
Member (2007)
French to English
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| It hadn't occurred to me to name it | Apr 5, 2011 |
Although if I did, it wouldn't be printable. I have on many occasions, however, promised to employ Beckham-like tactics to escort it through the window, post haste. The speed of the thing drives me to distraction. 
[Edited at 2011-04-05 12:01 GMT]
| | | | | Functional names | Apr 5, 2011 |
My old laptop was called The Hairdryer.
The Macbook Pro I got to replace it is called The Silver Goddess.
I think you can work out the rationale for both...
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Thayenga
Germany
Local time: 22:14
Member (2009)
English to German
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| Yes, though partially unintenionally | Apr 5, 2011 |
My desktop is named for the one who gave it to me brandnew: Olly.
I never thought about naming my laptop, but... one day I sorted out tons of "souvenirs" and came across a sticker I had bought years ago in Wyoming. That day I thought it a good idea to just stick it on my laptop's case. So now it's called: Cheyenne, named for the state capital of Wyoming.  ... See more
| | | | Dalibor Uhlik
Czech Republic
Local time: 22:14
Member (2009)
English to Czech
I didn't give a name to it but sometimes I talk with it or grumble at it ... how have you been...come on, faster etc.
| | | | Thayenga
Germany
Local time: 22:14
Member (2009)
English to German
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| Oh that kind of naming. | Apr 5, 2011 |
Dalibor Uhlik wrote:
I didn't give a name to it but sometimes I talk with it or grumble at it ... how have you been...come on, faster etc.
I do that, too. And these names/grumblings/mumblings etc. are not printable here. Especially not when my laptop crashed during a conversation with a client and only minutes after I've started that project. grrrrrrrrrrr is the only printable version of what I called my laptop.
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Every computer/MacBook etc. has a name:
Freddy
PhAntoMac
Alfry
External hard-disks:
Gino
Pino
Half-Terron
Full-Terron
Black-Terron
and so on
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but the washing machine is Betty, and the wardrobe is Arnold.
| | | | | | Valeria Fuma
Argentina
Local time: 17:14
English to Spanish
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... is the name of my Dell laptop
And yes, when it gets slow, I use other vocatives not that friendly.
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