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If your IT strategy involves bulk purchase of laptops, adding monitors and keyboards as needed for office based tasks, you may be missing advances in modern desktop (tower) machines.
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In this episode of the SDRN Newsroom, Steve St. Amant of Lenovo uses the A63 ThinkVantage series as an example of a modern design focused on life cycle costs. These modern tower machines reduce energy use and speed maintenance tasks for Small and Medium (SMB) business applications.

Starting with AMD processors for affordable performance, Lenovo has designed this series of machines for low thermal loading. This brings surprising benefits in reduction of direct energy use, and reduced fan speeds greatly improve acoustic performance.  Lenovo builds in a suite of Administrator Tools that enable one person to manage thousands of tower machines, remotely- restoring, migrating,updating drivers and eventually shredding the data on the hard drive before disposal.

Annual energy cost reduction of these two design elements average $71 per machine per year. And if you are responsible for a school district, regional office or major installation with hundreds of machines in your fleet, these can add up. A less obvious example of design impact comes from tool-less operation – the ability to quickly open up a unit, replace drives, add memory, or change interface cards rapidly. Give tower machines another look at http://lenovo.com/thinkvantage.

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