pymel.core.system.hardware¶

hardware(*args, **kwargs)¶

Return description of the hardware available in the machine.

Flags:

Long Name / Short Name		Argument Types	Properties
brdType / brd		bool
	Returns IP number identifying the CPU motherboard
cpuType / cpu		bool
	Returns type of CPU
graphicsType / gfx		bool
	Returns string identifying graphics hardware type
megaHertz / mhz		bool
	Returns string identifying the speed of the CPU chip
numProcessors / npr		bool
	Returns string identifying the number of processors Flag can have multiple arguments, passed either as a tuple or a list.

Derived from mel command maya.cmds.hardware

Example:

import pymel.core as pm

pm.hardware( cpu=True )
# Result: [u'Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processor'] #
pm.hardware( brd=True )
# Result: [u'Intel Macintosh'] #