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We’re getting close to that time of year when most orgs want to plan for the new year and new budget. How do you plan to address older machines that cannot be updated? Is new hardware in the future or will orgs keep using older machines until they stop working? Let us know how you are planning to address it.

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Swap out oldest with new machines, normally a few users at a time (small company). Use ShredOS for data destruction and then ITAD for asset recovery. Good to get back some $ while correctly decom’ing and recycling them.

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Our (small) company heavily prefers to use older machines until they stop working. Work-wise, we use them to print things and everything else is done in a browser. Plan A for when Windows 10 is EOL is to replace uncompatible machines with different used machines from the second-hand market that are compatible with Windows 11.

I’ve been toying with Plan B, switching to linux or ChromeOS and keeping the old machines in service longer. This would have an added cost in managing multiple different operating systems instead of just Windows. But the truth is that browser-based software has meant we don’t really need slightly-faster hardware every 3-5 years to continue to get work done. It’s hard to justify replacing old hardware, or even buying new when old, used machines can get the job done just fine.

We need software (updates), not hardware.

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For our customers we are upgrading those that can and have laid out plans to replace those that can not be upgraded. To work out the plan Bacon and Scotch was used.

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I can see that IT does have a plan for refreshing or not! I do like the strategy of including the bacon and scotch method!

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