Out with the Old, In with the New: The Impact of PC Age on Small Businesses

During the economic downturn over the past few years, small businesses commonly allocated their budgets away from IT and thus postponed the replacement of their old PCs. Though seen as a cost saving approach, delaying equipment replacement actually costs a business more and can limit the upside effects of a recovering economy. Techaisle LLC, a market research firm focused on small businesses, reports that almost 40% of the PCs used by small businesses are more than 3 years old, which is considered beyond end-of-life per best practices standards for PCs. A recent survey of over 1600 small businesses in multiple countries shows that the age of a small business’ PCs can have a significant financial impact on the business, finding that newer PCs experience 40% less downtime than older PCs, and that the cost to maintain newer PCs can often be 1.5 times less than the cost to maintain older PCs.

Therefore, now that the economy is in a state of recovery, Techaisle recommends small businesses allocate money towards purchasing new PCs, which should not only improve productivity and reduce maintenance costs but also improve security and support for the PCs and the business’ network at large. Further results of Techaisle’s survey and the firm’s conclusions can be found in their following whitepaper: “SMBs – The Case for Buying Modern PCs.”

3D Corporation can bring your business’ network to best practices standards. To find out more, call our office at (360) 671-4906, email us at info@3dcorp.us, or visit our website at http://www.3dcorp.us/.

References:
“SMBs – The Case for Buying Modern PCs”, techaisle.com