Meh. A lot of those systems are in offices where there's really not been a compelling reason to have upgrade cycles less than 5 years. Even a first or second ge

Meh. A lot of those systems are in offices where there's really not been a compelling reason to have upgrade cycles less than 5 years. Even a first or second generation i3/i5 has more than enough compute power for anything in most office environments, and if a machine is sluggish day to day it's almost always addressed by taking it from 4gb (or even 2!) up to 8 at very low cost or by replacing that overloaded 10/100 switch in the closet. An upgrade to SSD may be appropriate for a few, but that gets close to the "just replace it" point. If you're a small company paying for outside support having someone do the upgrade would likely have been $100+ per machine, for what gain? I'd expect a surge of replacements this fall as Office 2007 goes EOL and systems get replaced instead of upgraded (unless there's a shift to Office365 subscriptions) since non-subscription Office upgrades will die with the machine, at least for companies with decent IT staff or contractors. Note that this is for small companies not doing volume licensing, which is its own separate and special hell.