How do you decide what to do with an enterprise PC that’s been replaced? What types of evaluation methods do you employ? Is the decision made by emotion, analysis, fixed planning, or just the conventional wisdom of “dispose after n years”? Let’s challenge that conventional wisdom and anecdotal logic, and think about objective and deterministic methods to measure a computer’s continued viability. We’ll talk about value proposition, opportunity cost, risks and benefits, secondary use cases, hard versus soft costs.
