Preston, Tony, and Steven,
I found the following WMI class which sounds like it might be
useful.
Determine whether a computer is a tower, a mini-tower, a laptop,
and so on by using the Win32_SystemEnclosure class and checking
the value of the ChassisType property.
Hi Roberto.
I assume you could categorize a computer as a laptop or desktop once you knew
the machine's make an model.
Unfortunately, we're a start-up company with an entirely random mix of
computers from what seems like every vendor possible. I'm not sure where
I would find a database for
Not sure exactly, but perhaps you could distinguish whether the battery is
connected via USB or some other transport method? Looking through the device
manager there seem to be some fields that might be relevant. As a network
admin, I've used a free software called Spiceworks in the past that
Steve,
Those are some great ideas! I'll give it a shot and see what
works for us.
Thanks for your help,
Malcolm
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From: Steven James steven.ja...@gmail.com
To: python-win32@python.org
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 10:17:43 -0500
Subject: Re: [python-win32] Detect whether a
pyt...@bdurham.com wrote:
Steve,
Those are some great ideas! I'll give it a shot and see what works for us.
Detecting the monitor type may also help, because Laptops have built-in
monitors and PCs not (OK, there are a few cases where PCs also have
built-in monitor).
-Ulrich
Thanks for
Message: 2
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 10:17:43 -0500
From: Steven James steven.ja...@gmail.com
To: python-win32@python.org
Subject: Re: [python-win32] Detect whether a workstation is a laptop
or desktop/server?
Message-ID:
e3c91421003060717o2769876ey82de33b5b7d41...@mail.gmail.com
As part of an inventory project I'm working on, I'm trying to
figure out whether a specific computer is a mobile asset (laptop)
or fixed asset (desktop/server).
Is there some feature that I can look that would indicate whether
a computer is a laptop or not? My initial thought was I could
look for
