With multiple computers on the same network, it's fun (if not productive) to come up with names within a theme (e.g. characters from a novel, place names from some country etc.)
Carbon, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Neon, Tungsten, Helium, Sodium, etc
Wifi names are after noble gases.
PC hardware are all stable metals.
iPhone/iPad accessories are all non-metals.
and finally, random IOT devices are radioactive elements.
- Helium - my Surface 3, because it's light
- Lead - my heavy Linux laptop
- Lithium - the Mac Mini I bought to keep from going crazy using a decade old Macbook Pro for iOS development
- Caesium - my Dell "workstation" Windows laptop, because I bought it to save time (compared to running Windows + Visual Studio in a VM)
- Uranium and Thorium - the beefy Xeon workstations that run a bunch of VMs and things - named because they put out so much heat that they might be radioactive
Scheme-compliant _and_ metaphorically apt. Love it.
For instance, my old server was called TheQ (i.e. 'Q' from James Bond) and the new one is named Judy, because Judy Dench plays 'M' in the most recent films. It's convoluted, but it's neat to have what is effectively your own mythology.
Home network is all character names from LOTR, home office is Expanse, etc.
It's fun to try pick suitable names from the movie, for the device, eg my HTPC is Gimli, because it's a small case but carries more than its weight. Gaming PC is Gandalf because it's entirely white.
Sub-categories of characters is good for sub-categories of devices, so all our phones/tablets are named after the Elves.
The main problem with this method is the HOURS you spend angsting over the correct names because it's actually fun.
Ah, it was fun at any rate. I miss you, Lanfear!