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Quite large, especially if you're including "all in one" and SFF type desktops. Plenty of typical office workers have a fixed desk/workstation/cube and don't ne
by volkl48 8y ago
Quite large, especially if you're including "all in one" and SFF type desktops. Plenty of typical office workers have a fixed desk/workstation/cube and don't need a portable computer.
If you don't need or want your employees to have a portable machine, it offers all the traditional benefits. Specifically:
- Lower purchase price/higher performance for a given price.
- Lower failure rate/easier to repair. They have to make far fewer design compromises. They don't have to worry about battery size/life, they have plenty of space for proper cooling and don't have to be pushing the limits thermally, and with all the space they can design for easy servicing. Open up a modern corporate desktop machine and it's probably not going to require any tools to swap out anything but the PSU or CPU/Motherboard. It's also not going to have much in proprietary parts hard to find or purchase for a reasonable price.
- Upgradeable. No soldered on RAM or Flash/SSD, expansion slots, etc. Plenty of places don't have the budgets for "ideal" upgrade cycles and so that can become important to keep what they have tolerable for longer.