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Older PCs are costing you time and
money.
The older desktop and notebook
PCs deployed in your infrastructure may appear to be "good enough"—but are
they? The increased security risks of those older systems, combined with
high maintenance costs and reduced worker productivity, may mean those
systems are costing more than you think. By upgrading to the latest
software and hardware technologies, you can actually save time and
money—while providing enhanced security, and peace of mind.
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Information security
The Computer Security Institute
(CSI), working with the San Francisco FBI's Computer Intrusion Squad,
reports that 85 percent of businesses, government agencies, and other
institutions had detected computer security breaches in the previous
12 months, and 64 percent experienced financial losses from them.
Those that quantified their financial losses pegged them at $377.8M—a
significant increase from 2000, when respondents reported losses
totaling $92.9M.
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Productivity A desktop
system based on the Intel® Pentium® 4 processor at 2.80 GHz delivers
six times the productivity performance gain of commonly installed
systems that use the Intel® Pentium® III processor at 500 MHz, as
measured by Productivity Performance SYSmark 2002*. Additionally,
business notebook users who spend 20 percent or more of their time out
of the office realized an annual dollar benefit of $34,560 in
productivity gains and efficiency savings. In addition to dollar-based
benefits, companies realize qualitative benefits, such as increased
employee satisfaction resulting from greater flexibility and freedom. |
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Reduction Business
leaders and IT decision-makers have seen significant cost reductions
in capital expenditures, technical support costs, administration, and
end-user operational costs. In one example, a mobile PC user saved
$25,000 a year for their local office area by having what once was a
multi-part form now available on her notebook. Furthermore, the Total
Cost of Ownership (TCO) of notebook computers continues to decline
every year. From 1998 to 2001, the TCO for business professionals
declined an average of 26 percent, with an average cost savings of
just over $3000 per year.
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| Unwire
your business
Professionals with wireless notebooks reported 41 percent
higher gains than their wired counterparts—about seven and one
half hours weekly of new productive time.1
And in a recent survey, 92 percent of large businesses
reported definite economic benefits from their WLAN implementations
with the average time to fully pay back initial installation costs
just 8.9 months.2
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1"How
Wireless Local Networks Enhance Productivity," Knowledge@Wharton.
2"Making
the Case," CIO Advertorial
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Companies Must consider upgrades
One reason that companies must consider
upgrading their PCs today is the boost in productivity that new
desktop and notebooks systems can yield. Intel IT conducted a
productivity
study [PDF, 587KB] that
pitted an older Intel® Pentium® III processor-based bundle running
Microsoft Windows* 2000 and Microsoft Office* 2000 against an
Intel® Pentium® 4 processor system bundle running Microsoft
Windows XP and Microsoft Office XP. Intel IT concluded, "More powerful
configurations boosted useful work time significantly, to the point
that increased productivity alone may justify the cost of the
upgrade." |
| Hyper-Threading technology
New processor technologies allow users to finish more
jobs in less time than mere speed alone can accomplish. The latest
Intel Pentium 4 processors, running at 3.06 GHz or higher, support
innovative
Hyper-Threading (HT) Technology**. A single Pentium 4
processor with HT Technology presents itself to modern operating
systems and applications as two virtual processors that can work on
two sets of chores simultaneously. Through better multitasking and
the use of multithreaded applications, users get more done. |
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