If you want to generate a hardware report of your workstation,desktop and laptop it very useful command.

lshw means list hardware on linux.

Example :

admin@smartproteam~$sudo lshw -html > myhardwarelist.html

(note : you need to be root to run this command )

myhardwarelist.html on the pwd(present working directory) with list of your hardware and configuraion in html format.