On Nov 6, 2007 3:09 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 6, 2:51 pm, "Michael Bacarella" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On the problem PCs, both of these methods give me the same information > > > (i.e. only the processor name). However, if I go to "System > > > Properties" and look at the "General" tab, it lists the CPU name and > > > processor speed. Does anyone else know of another way to get at this > > > information? > > > > This information is hardware dependent and probably unreliable. > > > > Why not run a benchmark and report the results instead? > > Like bogomips? <URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogomips> > > That's an interesting idea, but this is in a login script, so I can't > exactly run benchmarks while logging in as the users will get > impatient quite quickly. They already think the scripts take too long > as it is. > > While this information may be unreliable, it is desired by my boss for > the express purpose of budgeting upgrades in our organization. >
For this purpose, the make/model of the CPU is probably much more useful than any measure (maximum or scaled) of the actual clock speed. Incidentally, it's also faster to gather. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
