Comment by 🖥️ mrrobinhood5
Re: "Random question. I'm planning to buy a new laptop for uni,…"
you gotta follow the naming conventions for thinkpads
2024-09-27 · 2 years ago
Poll Results
1. Amethyst-II
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2. Pearl-III
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20 votes were cast.
6 Later Comments ↓
🚀 mycrobe · 2024-09-27 at 16:52:
How about calling it something new? "Opal", for example
🚀 DdlyH · 2024-09-27 at 22:43:
So it's Gemstones, right? If it's an IBM Thinkpad, that's Big Blue, so could go with Sapphire or Bluejohn?
☯️ leoperbo · 2024-09-28 at 15:06:
I'm posting this from a T450, with (--pretty) hostname "Darth Zannah" (--static "darthzannah"). All my ThinkPads take her hostnames from characters with the Darth title.
🚀 stack · 2024-09-28 at 19:47:
My daily machine is a T470, an I5 that I got for $75 a couple of years back. My best, favorite machine! It didn't even stop when I spilled 1L of water directly onto the keyboard (It has a drain, as I found out). 'Invincible' is my suggestion!
☕️ johan · 2024-10-01 at 20:16:
my thinkpad is called "tank" :)
🐙 norayr · 2024-10-31 at 04:34:
or HAL because that's a shifted IBM.
Original Post
Random question. I'm planning to buy a new laptop for uni, since I've just broken my ten-year-old MacBook. I have decided on a ThinkPad T450, but I need some help deciding on the hostname. On one hand, since it's a ThinkPad, I could call it Amethyst-II (my T400 is called Amethyst). On the other hand, since it's replacing my MacBook, I could call it Pearl-III (the MacBook was called Pearl-II, and my first MacBook was just called Pearl). What do you think?