Tim here. I'll provide a few aspects you might want to compare:
- Disk space: to ignore the sizes of individual partitions and check
the total disk-space of each of your drives, you should be able to
use
$ sudo fdisk -l | grep 'Disk /'
- Disk type: it might be a slower rotating drive or a faster
SSD/NVMe drive, so to check that:
$ lsblk -io name,rota | grep '^\<'
If the 2nd "ROTA" value is a "1", it's a slower spinning disk,
while if it's a "0", the drive is a faster SSD/NVMe drive.
- RAM: use
$ free -h
or for just the numeric value without swap and usage information
$ free -h | awk 'NR==2{print $2}'
- CPU: this one is trickier to compare because one might have more
cores that are slower while the other one has fewer cores running
at a higher clock-speed. For just the CPU count, you can use
$ fgrep -c "model name" /proc/cpuinfo
whereas if you want the details on processor-speed (which can
differ by CPU) in addition to the processor count, you can use
$ awk 'END{print c, "total"}/model name/ && ++c' /proc/cpuinfo
That still doesn't take into consideration things like
- system weight (I remember the old days of 10-pound laptops and even
45-pound luggables)
- the keyboard feel/layout (some are spongy-feeling with short
travel, some laptops have atrocious layouts for things like
arrow-keys, function keys, etc)
- battery life
but hopefully it provides enough numbers to let you compare them
and determine which will better meet your needs.
Hopefully this helps,
-Tim
On May 17, 2022, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> I have an old laptop running Fedora.
> My sister is giving me an old laptop she no longer needs.
> It has windows on it now.
> I will put linux on to it.
> How may I find which machine has better memory, disk space, and all
> that?
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