Hi again David, I should mention that naming your MacBook just "MacBook" is fine unless you have other MacBooks on the same Network named "MacBook". You will want to keep it distinguishable from other MacBooks on your network, say name your MB "David MacBook" ;-)
Cheers, Ronni On 03/09/2010, at 10:48 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: > > > On 03/09/2010, at 10:37 AM, David Noel wrote: > >> >> Hi All -- >> >> -- I've recently bought a 13" MacBook to take on my travels. I've >> copied all the files on my iMac (Intel) over to the MacBook, using >> Migration Assistant, so the two computers are currently almost >> identical (though iMac is 10.6.4, MacBook is 10.6.3). >> >> -- I'd like to rename the MacBook computer and hard drive as >> 'MacBook', but I have disquieting buried memories of this having >> caused troubles for others. Can I just do the renaming as for any >> other device, or are there hidden dangers? TIA. >> >> David Noel >> 2010 Sep 3 > > Hi David, > > Open System Preferences > Sharing and change the computer's name. > > Cheers, > Ronni > > 17" MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 > 2.66GHz / 4GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm > > OS X 10.6.3 Snow Leopard > Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
