Business computers last three to five years, and the signs are consistent: slow, crashing, software that will not run, and now Windows 10 without security updates. The signs, what changed, and how to replace without a painful year.
Twenty lost minutes a day does not sound like much until it is multiplied by 250 working days and the real hourly cost of an employee. Here is the arithmetic with current wage figures, a table for businesses of 5 to 50 people, and how the losses compare with the cost of fixing them.
A slow computer usually has one of eight causes, and you can tell which in about five minutes. Here is how to find it, what fixes it, and when the honest answer is a new machine.
