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Owain writes:
Andrew Gabriel wrote:
Another tip: many companies which are stuffed full of IT equipment
PAT test their IT equipment far too often, which is a waste of money
(not just the PAT test fees, but even more so the disruption it can
cause to the company operations). ...For example, if you write off
and dispose of desktop PC systems less than 4 years, in many
cases they won't ever need any testing (depending how they're used),
but probably just one visual inspection check halfway through their
lives.

Any company that writes off desktop PC systems after 4 years is already
wasting huge amounts of money and probably contributing to landfill, and
has obviously never heard of thin client computing.

Oh, I agree (having worked for a thin client manufacturer,
where we made very heavy use of them internally, obviously).
However, most companies have no idea what a thin client is,
very sadly. When you get someone visiting who's never seen
beyond Windows desktop deployments, and they see how you can
work with thin clients (SunRays in my case), they are always
completely gobsmacked.

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Andrew Gabriel