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Intel encourages to buy new computers

http://www.ecommerce-journal.com/news/15142_intel_encourages_to_buy_new_computers

May 5, 2009

Intel Corp. reported last week that companies with 30,000 PCs upgrading to new Core 2 Duo or Quad computers would return their money in 17 months. Those which also equip themselves with vPro-enabled motherboards in even a shorter time period, 10 months.

However, it is known that these figures apply only to a limited set of firms and do not encompass other costs of PC upgrades.

According to the survey commissioned by the company and conducted by Wipro Consulting of 106 North American and European companies, 32% of them have slowed their PC refresh rates in the last six months, 60%, haven't changed their PC upgrade policy, and 8% have even accelerated them. Northern American companies participating in the survey had a minimum of 5,000 PCs, and Europeans 2,500.

Intel states that the main reason to the delayed PC upgrades is decreasing revenues. Consequently, this once again highlights the fact shown by Jack Gold, an independent analyst that only 10% to 15% of enterprise PCs deployed today have vPro today, which is understandable considering that vPro, was launched in April 2006 and the first desktop PCs featuring it began shipping about several months later.



vPro enables IT managers to remotely configure and set policies for PCs. Analysts suggest that the vPro technology needs to be accompanied by a strong back-end management tools and run in large environments in order to insure its security and lower costs.