Desktop refresh best practice

Minion Queen

@MattSpeller said:

I don't know where you found your 10 year life PSU's but I want some!

Literally our entire HP fleet for the last sixteen years. We buy used, we run them into the ground, we use them for labs, clients, etc. These things last for forever.

We aren't buying entry level, but not high end either. Mid range, where the value is often best. And we don't buy at random, we research reasonably. But still, d325, d530, dx5150, dc5750, dc5850, etc. All of them absolute tanks.

WE have a few of the dc5750's and 5850's still in services in our lab even.

Carnival Boy

So, the jury is split on what I should do

I guess I'll just run some benchmarks comparing a new PC with an upgraded old one and report back.

Carnival Boy

@Dashrender said:

Sadly I think the Windows 10 upgrade is going to be exactly like Office Product Key Cards.

I don't think so. I think the reason Product Key Cards are such a ball-ache is because they want businesses to buy VL or O365. Whereas the reason Windows 10 is free is because they want to kill off Windows 7. So they have an incentive to make Product Key Cards suck but they have an incentive to make Windows 10 installs easy.

Dashrender

@Carnival-Boy said:

@Dashrender said:

Sadly I think the Windows 10 upgrade is going to be exactly like Office Product Key Cards.

I don't think so. I think the reason Product Key Cards are such a ball-ache is because they want businesses to buy VL or O365. Whereas the reason Windows 10 is free is because they want to kill off Windows 7. So they have an incentive to make Product Key Cards suck but they have an incentive to make Windows 10 installs easy.

<touches wood>

We can only hope! I haven't actually signed up for any upgrades yet (my personal laptop at home is running Windows 10 beta and I haven't looked at my wife's to see if she got the notice, so I'm not 100% sure what you are giving MS when you sign up for the free upgrade?

Carnival Boy

@Dashrender said:

so I'm not 100% sure what you are giving MS when you sign up for the free upgrade?

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