The PCs on your employees' desks, whether at home or in the office, play a crucial role in your business’ success. Outdated PC hardware and software can lead to myriad technical and operational issues, which in turn can create information security risks, reduced productivity, and employee frustration.
Refreshing older PCs with the latest devices from OEMs like Microsoft, Lenovo, HP, Dell, and Samsung, all powered by Intel’s most powerful PC processors, can help your employees be as productive as possible and enjoy their computing experience while boosting manageability and keeping your data and intellectual property highly secure.
Refreshing your PC fleet should be a first-level priority to increase operational and employee efficiency. Advancements in processor architecture, such as multi-core processors, AI accelerators, advanced power management features, optimized chip design, and energy-efficient components can all drive higher employee productivity and morale, better customer experience, and reduced costs. These benefits lead to further advantages, such as employee and customer retention, increased sales, and the ability to adapt quickly to an evolving business landscape.
1. Save Time and Increase Efficiency
The adage “time is money” is no less true today than when Benjamin Franklin first offered that advice nearly 250 years ago.1 In fact, it might be even more relevant to today’s businesses. Experts agree that business efficiency “is not just a buzzword; it is a fundamental element that paves the way for operational excellence, customer satisfaction, and a competitive edge.”2 Employees across multiple industries are under pressure to get more done in less time, driven by factors like staff shortages, increased competition, and escalating customer expectations. In response, IT leaders need to be sure employees have access to the tools that will help them be more productive and suffer less downtime.
Refreshing your PC fleet should be a first-level priority to increase operational and employee efficiency. Advancements in processor architecture, such as multi-core processors, AI accelerators, advanced power management features, optimized chip design, and energy-efficient components can all drive higher employee productivity and morale, better customer experience, and reduced costs. These benefits lead to further advantages, such as employee and customer retention, increased sales, and the ability to adapt quickly to an evolving business landscape.
2. Reduce Risk and Enhance Security
Cybersecurity and infrastructure manageability have consistently been two of the top concerns for any IT department.3 The rise of the hybrid workforce has only increased these challenges for IT. How can you be sure your devices are secure? How can you efficiently manage PCs that are being used from home? Refreshing older devices with PCs equipped with remote management technology enables you to manage your business desktop and laptop devices from the cloud.
Imagine being able to:
- Connect to malfunctioning devices outside the firewall as if standing right in front of the computer.
- Update operating systems on devices or power cycle a system when it is no longer responding.
- Automate software and patch installation over a wired or Wi-Fi connection.
These types of capabilities can transform endpoint device management from a constant troubleshooting storm to a breeze.
Take Your PC Fleet to the Next Level with Intel® Technology
As the above discussion makes clear, now is the right time to refresh your PC fleet. Intel offers business AI PCs powered by Intel® Core™ Ultra processors and Intel vPro.
By allowing IT to manage devices from virtually anywhere, Intel vPro helps save IT time and costs and simplify their tasks. As a result, employees can stay more productive, and their devices can stay healthier without traveling to the office.
- Intel vPro can help an IT organization save up to $1.7 million in labor costs over three years.4
- Hardware-enabled security on Intel vPro-based devices can help to reduce material security breaches by up to 23%.4
- Remote manageability with Intel vPro can help a mid-market organization avoid up to 368 metric tons (368,000kgs) of carbon emissions over three years.4
- When asked about the effects of material breaches over the past year, only 29% of organizations surveyed using mostly Intel vPro-based devices reported a loss of customers compared to 40% of organizations using mostly non-Intel-based endpoints.5
The value of Intel vPro is complemented by using it to manage AI PCs powered by Intel Core Ultra processors. This new type of PC delivers AI acceleration through a processor that has built-in AI accelerators such as NPUs. AI PCs deliver the performance your employees need in today’s fast-paced, hybrid workforce environment:
- Office productivity suites run faster on AI PCs powered by Intel Core Ultra processors—up to 47% faster than a three-year-old PC.6
- Intel Core Ultra processors provide up to a 36% processor power reduction gen-over-gen for video conferencing.7
- Intel Core Ultra processors enable a new level of power-efficient AI acceleration directly on the PC, with 2.5x AI inference performance per watt compared to previous-generation devices.8
- For the latest AI use cases, PCs powered by Intel Core Ultra processors can run GenAI up to 73% faster than last year’s devices.9
3. Get Your PC Fleet Ready for the Rise of On-Device AI
AI is becoming part of an employee’s everyday life. From chatbots to personal productivity agents to generative AI (GenAI) tools like ChatGPT, AI is infusing PC software applications running on employees’ devices. The advantages of AI at the edge for productivity, accelerated cyber threat detection, low latency, and employee satisfaction are key to maintaining a competitive edge for today’s enterprises.
Simply looking for the lowest-cost PC configuration model won’t produce optimal business success. The traditional metrics of a fast processor, adequate RAM, and sufficient storage aren’t enough. Today, you need to consider additional features, such as built-in neural processing units (NPUs), can help run some local AI capabilities efficiently right on the PC itself. This new paradigm is called the AI PC. For example, Microsoft Copilot+ PCs offer enhanced AI business solutions and experiences across productivity, creativity, search, and communications.
With the advent of the AI PC, some traditionally cloud-based workloads can transition to local compute on the PC. Extending AI to the PC presents countless opportunities to better respond to IT and user needs by integrating AI into apps that use any combination of cloud, client, and hybrid models. 59% of US ITDMs report increasing accuracy and quality of work due to using AI PCs.10
4. Don't Give Your Competition an Advantage
Gartner forecasts that worldwide IT spending will grow to $5.74 trillion in 2025. That’s nearly a 10% increase from the prior year,11 meaning your competitors are upgrading their technology stacks. Refreshing your PC fleet to include AI PCs and Intel vPro® is a good way to help ensure you’re not left behind.
With a typical refresh cycle of three to four years, it’s safe to assume that the PCs you buy now will be in your installed base for several more years. As AI grows across all industries, your teams need powerful PCs to keep up.
5. If You Haven’t Upgraded to Windows 11 Yet, Now’s the Time
As of October 2025, Microsoft expects to no longer offer support for Windows 10—no patches, no new features. To avoid the problems caused by an out-of-date OS, it is recommended that organizations upgrade to Windows 11, which requires CPUs with Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 capabilities.
This means upgrading to an AI PC prepares your business for the coming age of AI and puts you in a good position to refresh your fleet. Migrating to Windows 11 is important to help protect your business and ensure positive computing experiences for your users.
Windows 11 offers significant security advantages over previous versions of Windows, and much of that security starts with Intel® silicon.12 A 2024 Intel-commissioned study with Forrester surveyed 500 customers to measure the total economic impact of having an Intel vPro platform on an enterprise system. It found up to 213% return on investment (ROI) over three years, up to a 90% reduction in hardware-related on-site visits and up to 65% less time spent on device management.5
The most recent version of Intel vPro brings massive updates to the two most important features IT managers are looking for across their fleets of computers: security and privacy. Here are some advantages of the new vPro platform:
- Built-in security: Intel vPro’s hardware-assisted security makes it more difficult for cyber attackers to bypass or disable protective measures.
- Efficiency: Fast, hardware-based security operations can help quickly detect and mitigate threats without significantly impacting system performance.
- Advanced protection: Intel vPro Security can isolate sensitive operations and data to the processor, making it harder for malicious software to access them. It’s the first time a hardware-assisted security system has been validated by the MITRE ATT&CK framework, which means it’s been tested and proven to protect against over 150 real-world cyberattack techniques.13
- Flexibility: A new Intel® Partner Security Engine, a dedicated and isolated security engine, can run third-party firmware such as Microsoft Pluton to help protect sensitive data.
- Simplicity: Full activation of Intel vPro is now much easier than with previous versions of the platform, with only a few steps required.