According to the results of a new study conducted by Wipro Research in India,
firms can gain an additional Rs 92,935 through increased productivity by
refreshing their old desktop PCs with laptops. In addition, firms can realize
total power savings of Rs 5,442 per year by switching from old desktops to
laptops. A saving of Rs 1,892 per PC, per year, would come from the reduced
power consumption of laptops compared to desktops. Plus, switching to laptops
would result in eliminating the need for UPS, thereby providing firms with an
additional Rs 3,550 in savings in UPS capital and running costs.
The results also revealed that operating expenses (OpEx) are one of the major
cost drivers of increasing support costs with older systems. Many of these
issues need to be resolved manually thereby pushing up costs. Over 50 percent of
the respondents felt that new applications, service packs, updates and patches
are the major reasons for increase in maintenance effort every year.
Over a quarter of respondents said that they experienced increasing number of
hardware and software failures as the PaC aged. Thus migration to laptops
improves customer service and productivity and is cost-justified.
That apart the payback for migration is very rapid, at an average of less
than three months, thereby making sense for firms to switch to laptops.