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Apple refreshes iMacs with Sandy Bridge

Apple refreshes iMacs with Sandy Bridge

...calls over the web or with iPhone or iPod Touch users. The desktop refresh follows Apple's updating of its MacBook Pro range in February... Read more

4 May, 2011 by Ben Woods

How to be greener in 2011

...and the like. 2. Which leads onto the second point: delaying a desktop refresh is the greenest thing you can do with them, as 70... Read more

5 January, 2011
Microsoft & Viewfinity Present: Windows 7 Migration is the Opportunity to Lockdown Desktops & Manage Standard User Privileges

Microsoft & Viewfinity Present: Windows 7 Migration is the Opportunity to Lockdown Desktops & Manage Standard User Privileges

...in the New York City Microsoft Technology Center discusses reasons why the desktop refresh fits perfectly into a Windows 7 migration project for securing and... Read more

1 January, 2012

Photos: Apple iMacs get Intel Thunderbolt and Sandy Bridge boost

...incorporating Intel's Thunderbolt I/O high-speed data-transfer technology. The desktop refresh follows Apple's update of its MacBook Pro laptops earlier this... Read more

4 May, 2011 by Natasha Lomas

Linux 'missed Aussie desktop wave' - IDC

Linux is already late in catching the desktop refresh wave in Australia, says analyst firm International Data Corporation. A ZDNet... Read more

24 May, 2004 by Kristyn Maslog Levis

Linux vendors hope to ride PC upgrade wave

...Windows in the PC desktop market as enterprises embark on the biggest desktop refresh since Y2K. On Tuesday, Gartner published a report predicting that over... Read more

21 May, 2004 by Munir Kotadia

Barclays has Microsoft's Longhorn in its sights

Desktop refresh planned in 2007 to coincide with release... Barclays Bank is already... Read more

26 May, 2004 by Andy McCue

PowerFuse adds migration path to desktop manager

...that want to make changes do not need to wait until a desktop refresh, which would be the usual way of avoiding major disruption to... Read more

17 February, 2010 by Manek Dubash

Linux gets green light in New South Wales

...Core 2 Duo processors must be at the heart of its own desktop refresh project. However, the NSW government has more modest requirements based on... Read more

20 September, 2006 by Renai LeMay

HP wins $27m London council deal

...workers. Servers and storage started to be rolled out in October. The desktop refresh begins at the start of next year. Newham head of ICT... Read more

13 December, 2004 by Tony Hallett

Dell takes to consulting

...savings for users will vary according to whether it is a simple desktop refresh or a complete standardisation project, but claimed "typically" customers are achieving... Read more

3 September, 2003 by Andy McCue
Smarter Collaboration TCO/ROI Calculator

Smarter Collaboration TCO/ROI Calculator

...TCO/ROI analysis. It is based on a user segmentation model and desktop refresh cycle Read more

1 May, 2010
TechTalk: Windows 7 Migration and the Desktop Virtualization Revolution

TechTalk: Windows 7 Migration and the Desktop Virtualization Revolution

...refreshes, numerous compatibility issues and long rollout delays. Since the last major desktop refresh, Windows 98-Windows XP, technology has advanced to improve and overcome... Read more

25 February, 2010

Desktops: Why you should care about them. Now.

Windows 7, economic recovery put spotlight on client computing Read more

16 February, 2010 by Martin Atherton
Fujitsu Case Study: International Military Advisory and Training Team (IMMAT)

Fujitsu Case Study: International Military Advisory and Training Team (IMMAT)

...an improved internet café facility for home contact. Fujitsu also recommended a desktop refresh, as the existing estate of PCs and peripherals was something of... Read more

12 October, 2009

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