To those who believe naming computers is nuts, I direct you to RFC 1178.

Caroline

Caroline is my new high-end system. She is a custom-built full tower with an Intel Core i7-2600k processor and 16 GB of RAM. She runs Windows 7 Professional Edition. She has a NVIDIA GTX 560 Ti graphics card, an LG BD-RE drive, a 64 GB SSD, and aside from her 2 TB hard drive, an additional 1 TB of RAID 1 (mirrored) storage.

Caroline is, like Echo, named after the main character from Dollhouse, as well as the personality who GLaDOS is based on from Portal 2.

Echo

Echo is my primary work system. She is an Acer Aspire AM5800-U5801A tower with an Intel Core 2 Q8300 Quad processor and 8 GB of RAM. She runs Windows 7 Home Premium Edition. She also features a NVIDIA GTS 450 graphics card and a Sony BD-ROM drive. She has been recently re-cased, and no longer looks like an Acer of old.

Echo is named after the main character from Dollhouse.

Midna

Midna is a Motorola Xoom, a 10.1" tablet that now functions as my mobile computer. It has a 1 GHz dual-core Tegra 2 processor and runs Android 3.2.4.

Midna is named after the character from The Legend of Zelda: The Twilight Princess.

Wheatley

Wheatley is a Motorola XT862 Droid 3, my new primary phone. It has a 1 GHz dual-core OMAP4 processor and runs Android 2.3.4.

Wheatley is named after the character from Portal 2.

Siri

Siri is a Motorola XT875 Droid Bionic, my mobile hotspot device. It has a 1 GHz dual-core OMAP4 processor and runs Android 2.3.4.

Siri is named ironically after the software for Apple iPhone.

Kino

Kino is my Barnes & Noble Nook Color, a 7-inch tablet/e-reader. It has a 800 MHz processor and runs a customized version Android 2.2.

Kino is named after the scouting device on the ill-fated series Stargate Universe. The Kinos were controlled by remotes about the same size, and the series was cancelled shortly after I bought it.

Milo

Milo is my Motorola A855 Droid, my first smartphone. It has a 600 MHz processor and runs Android 2.2.

Milo is named after the Milo tech demo for Microsoft Kinect as well as a short of "Motorola Milestone", which is the name internationally-sold Droids are sold as.

River

River was my on-the-go computer. She is a Toshiba Satellite M105-S3084 laptop with an Intel Centrino T2050 Duo processor and 4 GB of RAM. She runs both Windows 7 Professional Edition and Fedora 14, depending which hard drive she's got. While River is technically retired, she does still get occasional use for experimentation.

River is named after River Tam from Firefly and Serenity.

Jarvis

Jarvis is my old scratch-built desktop. Jarvis is a Pentium 4 3.2 GHz, with 2 GB of RAM, running Windows XP Professional Edition. Jarvis is silver with blue neon lighting.

Jarvis is named after the artificial intelligence in Tony Stark's house in Iron Man.

Lisle

Lisle is my utility computer for a variety of backup and auxiliary functions. He is a PowerSpec 8238 desktop with an Athlon XP 2200+ processor with 224 MB of RAM. Lisle usually has two screens.

Lisle's name comes from the town of the business who was his original owner.

Kirby

Kirby is an old HP Pavilion xh675 laptop with an AMD Athlon 4 1.5 GHz processor with 512 MB of RAM running Windows XP Home Edition. Formerly my parents', and then my little brother's, this laptop has seen a lot of action, and it shows. It has a cracked joint where the screen is attached and the computer rattles when shaken. It also overheats after only a short use. However, it has some old development software on it, as well as some old files, and has occasionally come in handy.

Kirby is named after the Nintendo character.

Ziva II

Ziva is the only Macintosh I run, she is a dual-core G4 tower with 768 MB of RAM, running Mac OS X 10.3.9.

Ziva is named after the Ziva David from NCIS. The reason she is named after Ziva, is the following quote: "At Mossad we used Mac. I’m yet not accustomed to this operating system."