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Re: [LUG] Devon Finances: Guestimated cost of non opensource: £130,000 pa

 

On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 10:39:30AM +0000, Jennifer Ockwell wrote:
> I can't speak for DCC but when I was doing my AAT we were told that
> computers are usually depreciated over 5 or 7 years.  I would assume that
> the council would be similar.  2-3 years is a really short period of time.
>
> Jen

Thanks: I suppose the key question becomes how often do they upgrade their software. 
If DCC stayed with MS office 2000 or MS office 2002 then they would not really need 
to upgrade their computers



Jan 14 2003:

 * Intel introduces the 2.4 GHz Pentium 4-M processor for portable computers. Price 
is US$562
 * Intel introduces the 2 GHz mobile Celeron processor. Price is US$149 in 1000-unit 
quantities. 
 * Intel introduces the 900 and 933 MHz Pentium III-M low-power mobile processors.
 * Intel introduces the 800 and 866 MHz Celeron low-power mobile processors.


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