How many applications do small and medium sized businesses use that require more than a 7 year old Pentium 4 3GHz processor and 2 Gigs of ram? You should always upgrade whatever is the slowest thing on the computer, and for most companies, that's the user.
Companies would get a better return on investment by training people.
The last time I checked, Antivirus programs didn?t care how old the machine was.
Is Intel's purchasing advice from the same people that asked Microsoft to lower the "Vista Ready" requirements so it could sell more motherboards with horrible built in graphics capabilities? I?m sure they have our best interest in mind.
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