do i need intel management engine running

If he can't afford them, he can't afford them. Is it the cure for the common cold, acne, and global warming? No.īesides which, the guy has said multiple times that he doesn't have the budget to buy SSDs. Have you met Windows 10? My Windows directory alone is 50GB. And if they really were that bad, no vendor would waste their time and resources selling hard drives that weren't SSDs, would they? Who would buy them? And especially everyone advocating 120GB SSDs. I run computers with Windows 10 without SSDs every day (some as old as the OP's systems) and they're nowhere near as slow as all of you proclaim them to be.

Well that is $19/wk and it does not even take into account how many IT hours will be saved instead of spent trying to keep old hardware/software working.

HPU is paid $200,000/yr at ~261 business days a year that puts daily cost a $766 and hourly at $95/hr ($1.60/min): Now very conservatively that new computer will save that person lets say only 12 min over the course of the day. Just show Mgmt the time cost savings of both you and your users. Yes you can combat that numerous ways, however, the easiest and least expensive (your time) is new hardware/software if you can get it approved. Browsing is right up there with games on how demanding they are to a system now days. However, these days you open one browser window on one site and you get 4 instances of the browser, around 70 simultaneous back-end threads for website, while loosing half a Gig of RAM. Internet browsing used to be nothing that really had to be considered from a performance standpoint. Biggest issue we have faced with older CPU's is the amount of cores needed to run the thousands of threads modern machines run simultaneously.

Do i need intel management engine running