How to Change/Modify Your Computer Name on Mac OS X?

Updated on September 1, 2017

Owner of Mac OS and share lot of stuff?! Well, here is some tip for you here.

Names of your device really matter when you are sharing files between your computer. And its cool if you can easily change their device names right? Here we go

Just open your System Preferences and go to Sharing.

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Change the computer name here. Done!

If you are a power user you can also change it from the Terminal using the below command

sudo scutil --set HostName [NewHostNameHere]

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