Yes, I name my computers, primarily because they are on a network. However, I name them after my real pets. This only refers to my home systems because my work system is for work, isn't mine and therefore doesn't deserve that type of affection. We have a working relationship.

My computer is Whitney (named for my precious Buff Cocker Spaniel who died of cancer) and is a P-IV 1.5 GHz, 512 Meg RDRAM (800), Geforce 2 GTX 32 meg video (Geforce 3 ti 200 on the way), Creative Labs Audigy Pro sound card, two 40 GB HP EIDE Hard Drives (removeable for different OS's), DVD player. My wife's computer is Shasta (named for my loving Springer Spaniel) and is a P-III 800, 256 MB PC-133 RAM, ATI 7200 All-In-Wonder Video Card, Sound Blaster 16, 20 GB and 10 GB hard drives, DVD Player, and CD-RW.

The computers are networked together with Whitney controlling the two printers and Shasta controlling the CD-RW. They share a DSL connection which is connected through a Linksys DSL/Cable router and switch. In a reversal from real life Shasta plays almost no games while Whitney is my game machine and enjoys Counter Strike but mostly (addictively) Anarchy Online.

BTW My first computer was a 286 which I finally gave to my son after it had been repeatedly updated to a Pentium MMX 200 MHz. Three years after purchasing it I realized that when I replaced the floppy I had finally replaced the last piece of original hardware initially purchased. So that computer was never thrown away it was upgraded out of existence.