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Top 6 Myths About Refurbished Hardware

Tech Soup

Consumer Reports does great reliability surveys on laptop fail rates. New Apple laptops have fail rates from 7 to 9 percent each year. Most new laptops from the other big computer makers have fail rates in the 15 percent range. Myth 1: New Is Better Than Refurbished. Myth 5: It Has a Short Life Span.

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Does the Used IT Market Have a Future?

Tech Soup

During the intervening two years, we have entered the “post-PC” era in which laptop and desktop computers are being superseded by tablets, phones and other mobile devices. And indeed sales of new PCs and laptops are declining. This is an update of a TechSoup article we posted online in November 2011.

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Is the Used Computer Market Going Away?

Tech Soup

By "post-PC," Jobs meant essentially that computing and Internet use for both work and pleasure will no longer be dominated by PCs, but that there will be an array of smart devices including smartphones, tablet computers, smart TVs, laptops, and even sensing devices in our clothes and cars and other every day items.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

Tech Soup

Tablet sales are up 53% while laptop and desktop computers are down 11% from the previous year. A 2013 survey from The Millennial Impact. It’s a new licensing arrangement in which Adobe products users download the software as they have in the past and use it on PCs, but licensing is on a monthly per-user fee basis.

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Why is the Cloud Right for Your Nonprofit?

Connection Cafe

In its recent survey, TechSoup found that 49% of respondents cited cost as the largest obstacle in a switch to SaaS. Ironically, these cloud services are typically offered at costs that are more economical than traditional licensed software and internal support expenses combined. You Only Pay For What You Need.

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