The name of Mac is like a URL, which can uniquely designate your device within a certain range.
As shown in the picture below, click on the Apple icon, click on System Preferences, and you can see the computer name in ***.
The computer name is the name displayed by many software’s exclusive services. The most common AirDrop (AirDrop) uses the computer name to mark the computer equipment in a local area. If everyone’s equipment is called iPhone, iPad, MacBook, it’s hard to tell whose device it is.
The most important thing is that many computer licenses nowadays are activated online to combat piracy. That is, every time you activate, you need to go online to verify whether the license has been used. If it has been used, It is not allowed to continue to activate the device. Therefore, when reinstalling the system or switching computers, you need to cancel the authorization in advance and tell the server that the authorization is no longer needed and the quota needs to be released. However, in order to prevent reinstallation due to system crash, many software activations are distinguished by computer names. If the computer names are the same, you can continue to activate them, so it is very important to remember the computer name.
This varies from person to person. The names given in the store are usually the names of the devices used directly, such as MacBook-Pro, iMac, Surface-Pro; but a better name may be something like XiaoXiao- MacBook-Pro In this way, you can know your device by its name, and which device it is by the device name.
Also note that try not to use Chinese names, and the special character ' will be added by default, because the encoding and decoding of many software does not consider the Chinese situation, and Chinese characters will be recognized as garbled characters.