What’s in a name?

Since we also deal extensively with storage devices with no processing power, I believe digital would be more appropriate.

In my mind digital better describes what most of us do on a regular basis. I also find that as time marches on we are doing more devices that are not strictly defined as computers so digital is probably a better/more inclusive descriptor.

Having just been posed this question in another venue, I did some research and found that more academically oriented entities tend to exclusively use the term digital, while LE and corporate tend to use the terms as one in the same.

I tend to use digital - heck I even named a firm that way! It tends to be very interchangeable in the corporate environment and try to frame the context that we deal with technology evidence. It also depends on audience and a lot of clients think computer forensics and in peer discussions I hear digital.

Would you consider an elevator, A/C controller, fire alarm system a computer?
Would you consider a dedicated device with a microcontroller of any sort, a computer?
Would you consider network traffic, 'computer'?

It is digital forensics, in my opinion, with computer forensics as a specialized branch of it.

I consider computer forensics to be a sub-discipline of digital forensics. That is how I covered it in my book, Digital Forensics for Legal Professionals. And of course, I named my firm, Guardian Digital Forensics.

At some point in time, computer forensics may be the smallest amount of work we do as other computing platforms take over for the traditional laptop and desktop as the "computer" for choice for most people.

Pad computing adoption outpaced everyone's expectations in the industry and traditional computer sales are down in all categories at the retail level in favor of pads.

Microsoft is building Windows 8 to be a pad / phone computing platform first and a computer OS second if that gives you any indication of where computing is going.

Many thanks for the comments and votes.