3reasons to upgrade your older systems

• Enhance Security

• Increase Productivity

• Decrease Costs

"Good enough."

If that's how you characterize the older desktop and notebook PCs deployed throughout your infrastructure, those systems may be costing more than you think. When you factor in security risks, high maintenance costs and reduced productivity, refreshing your aging PC base could actually save you time and money—important business goals in any economic climate.

Even in times of tight budgets, replacing your desktop PCs every three years and notebook systems every two years can simplify management, reduce security risk, and meet business demands for increased productivity. It's a sound investment that pays immediate—and potentially significant—dividends across your enterprise.

PC clients are an important link in the security chain—and security incidents are increasing at an alarming rate.

Enhance Security

Powerful client PCs based on the latest Intel processors enable multitasking performance, allowing your business to run continuous virus scanning and file encryption programs in the background with minimal end-user disruption. Migration to newer operating systems supports stronger security, including added VPN for tunneling, support for Kerberos authentication, and built-in smart card support for more defensible authentication and authorization.
Learn how upgrading can enhance security.

Increased demand on client foreground and background processing means more waiting and less working. But new PCs can provide the performance users need to become more productive than ever. In summer 2002, Intel's Information Technology division—using a cross-section of Intel employees—compared user productivity on an Intel® Pentium® III processor system bundle running Microsoft Windows* 2000 and Microsoft* Office 2000 with that of an Intel® Pentium® 4 processor system bundle running Microsoft Windows* XP and Microsoft* Office XP. Their conclusion?

Increase Productivity

In addition to outstanding performance, Hyper-Threading Technology**, available for the desktop with the Intel Pentium 4 processor 2.4 GHz and higher, enables simultaneous processing of two sets of tasks—producing performance gains of up to 25 percent.¹ And this is significant, given the trend toward PC-based, productivity-driven usage models such as XML processing, online collaboration, and e-learning.
Learn how upgrading can increase productivity.

Reduce Costs

Aging PCs running older operating systems and applications often cost more to own and manage than newer platforms.  Migrating to new client PC platforms and operating systems produces measurable cost savings, reduces environmental complexity, and helps companies avoid future large-scale upgrades. A 2003 META Group study reports that companies migrating to Windows 2000 or Windows XP experienced up to a "50 percent reduction in OS-related help desk calls, increased end-user satisfaction, and 10 percent or better reduction in operational costs…(and reduction of) image management costs by 50 percent or better."² In addition to cost savings, regular PC refresh reduces the number of images across the environment and a stable platform means fewer prequalification.
Learn how upgrading can reduce costs.

Deciding to replace aging desktop systems with new notebook PCs can bring additional productivity benefits to many businesses

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 at just under nine months.³ With cost savings, security enhancements and increased productivity, it's no surprise that notebook system sales are expected to grow at a 19 percent cumulative annual growth rate through 2005,⁴ and by 2006, 66 percent of U.S. workers will be classified as mobile workers.⁵ Refresh with notebook PCs now and stay ahead of the curve.

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