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Is there a way of finding out what the make and model of computer is without simply going to the box or looking at the label on the computer if it had one?
For example if my computer was a HP Pavilion 17-f000 Notebook PC series and I wanted to find that out by using a CLI or GUI program.
From the command line:
sudo dmidecode -s system-product-name or sudo dmidecode --string system-product-name
Alternatively
sudo dmidecode | grep -A3 '^System Information'
dmidecode provides a description of the computer's hardware information.
The -s --string flag with the DMI string system-product-name, only outputs the make and model of your computer.
| grep pipes the output to grep and the -A3 flag for grep prints 3 lines after a match for System Information.
. was a period to end the sentence. I've amended the response for clarity.
Using the dmidecode command-line program, one can find the exact model of anything in your PC. Getting the make and model of your computer can be done with the -s, --string flag with the DMI string system-product-name:
sudo dmidecode -s system-product-name
dmidecode -s without any keywords, does it have "system-product-name" listed as valid keywords?
Sep 10, 2015 at 4:32
dmidecode -s system-product-name or dmidecode --string system-product-name should work.
Sep 16, 2015 at 16:43