Hi Neil, Upon setup, your Mac usually just places your name prior to the model of the computer as you've noticed. It is, though, extremely easy to change the name. Simply do the following:
1. Go to the system Preferences. 2. Select the Sharing System Pref. 3. Press tab to get to the Computer name field 4. Enter the name you wish. The only limitations that I've come across are that you can't name it the same as another on your network. If you do, it will ad a "2" or "3" or whatever, depending on how many you have with the same name. It accepts hyphens, underscores, apostrophes, and spaces although there used to be issues with Time Machine backups when apostrophes were used in the name. I'm not sure if that issue is still around as I don't bother using the apostrophe anymore. Later... On 2011-02-05, at 2:05 PM, Neil Barnfather - TalkNav wrote: > Hi all, > > just a quick one, and I'm sorry I've not done to much digging around for > this, but time is rather short for this particular task. > > both my Mac Book Air and iMac have assumed names based on my name, i.e. Neil > Barnfather's Mac Book Air etc, I do not ever recall being asked what I wish > the machine to be called during setup, like with Windows. > > Is there a way to change this, and how, and should I be aware of anything > when doing it? > > thanks all... > > > > > Regards, > > Neil Barnfather > Talks List Administrator > > Twitter @NeilBarnfather > > TalkNav is a Nuance, Code Factory and Sendero dealer, for all your > accessible phone, PDA and GPS related enquiries visit www.talknav.com > > URL: - www.talknav.com > e-mail: - serv...@talknav.com > Phone: - +44 844 999 4199 > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
