aaron
I was just reading this webpage about shell scripting, and discovered that you can get a lot of information about your cpu and memory from the command line.
Return details about your processor:
# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 6
model : 8
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2700+
stepping : 1
cpu MHz : 2164.892
cache size ...
