Get hardware info?

[dai_vernon]

How do I determine my exact hardware specifications? Such as my motherboard model and such? I am doing OS research and need to know the exact specs...

In OS X there's a system profiler that's a clearinghouse for hardware info. Is there one here?

[cariboo]

In a terminal type:

sudo lshw

This will print out all the hardware information you could need and then some.

You do realize that OS X only runs properly on Apple certified hardware so any hardware results are guaranteed to be correct.

Jim

[Herman]

Another command which is also very good for motherboard and BIOS info is this one,

sudo dmidecode