25/08/2026
That slow old laptop your employee is putting up with is costing you more than a new one would.
It's easy to treat a computer as something you only replace when it dies. As long as it still switches on, a new one feels like money you don't need to spend.
Every slow start-up in the morning, every wait for a file to open, every frozen call someone has to drop and rejoin is a couple of minutes gone.
It happens over and over, all day, to everyone stuck on an old machine. Add it up across a year and it's well past the price of a new laptop.
And that's before the frustration, or the fact that old machines stop getting security updates, which makes a slow computer a risky one too.
You don't have to replace everything at once. Just look at how old your team's computers are.
Around the three or four year mark is usually where a machine starts costing you more in lost time than a replacement would.
Ask your staff which computers drive them mad and they'll tell you straight away.
Your IT provider can also point out which ones are near the end of their supported life, since those tend to be both the slowest and the least safe.
