hot new laptop for ubuntu 10.04, and detecting DDR3 memory?

[NoOp]

On 05/15/2010 02:43 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
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> 
>   only curiosity i had was to verify that memory was, in fact, DDR3,
> not DDR2.  i'm convinced it is from the spec sheet, but is there a way
> to verify that on a running system?  i popped into "lspci" and a
> number of other utilities i know, but couldn't nail that down.  can it
> be done?

$ sudo lshw

Pipe it to a file on your own pc before you go so that you can see all
it provides:

$ sudo lshw > mysystem.txt

The open mysystem.txt in your favorite text editor. You know of course
that you don't need the '.txt' part.

> 
>   oh, and what will tell me that the HD is 7200 rpm, rather than just
> 5400 rpm?  again, the utilities i know about didn't tell me that.  is
> there a way?  thanks.

lshw will provide you with the exact model of drive that is in the
machine. It won't tell you the rpm, but it is then easy enough to search
the model on the web.

Were I you, I would be more concerned to determine if you can actually
run 64bit virtualization on the machine...
You might find this thread of interest (and note that it's not just
Intel processors):
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user/212314
or
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2010-March/213448.html