Future-Ready Your Fleet with AI PCs
As you begin your final push toward refreshing your PC fleet, it’s important that you consider the simple fact that the PCs you buy now will be in your installed base for years to come. So, while the apps your employees use now may not have local AI features, there’s a very good chance that future updates will bring them. Boost your employees’ productivity and increase their job satisfaction by bringing your fleet up to date with AI PCs.
Future-Ready: Incorporating AI PCs into Your Refresh Roadmap
The challenges for IT Decision Makers (ITDMs) continue to mount, as they are faced with the daunting task of transitioning their aging PC fleets to Windows 11 before Microsoft’s October 2025 End of Service (EOS) for Windows 10. Adding to this mix is the rapid ascent of new AI business tools that promise to radically change the computing environment across industries, company sizes, and use cases. Choosing the right PC requires more considerations than ever before. It’s more than just selecting a fast processor, adequate RAM, and enough storage. So, what is the best way to approach this task?
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A key benefit of AI PCs includes Improved collaboration features right out of the box. Moving those capabilities from the CPU or GPU to the NPU will not only drive improved experiences but will improve performance on all PCs and help extend laptop PC battery life.
Data security concerns are addressed by keeping more of the work locally rather than in the cloud. The potential benefits of shifting the workload this way include better privacy and security, lower long-term costs, better performance, enhanced user experience, and a more personalized end-user experience.
Companies can save power by moving AI workloads from the cloud to the edge. As AI computing is pushed from power-hungry data centers to the more efficient edge, the amount of energy used is lessened, and companies can see a drastic reduction in power usage.
AI PCs benefit both employees and the company. The chief benefit IT and business leaders see for the company is increased user productivity, followed by stronger security and compliance. Employees expect to see improved automation and efficiency as well as improved security and privacy.
4 Key Takeaways
Knowledgeable IT and business leaders across industries and countries are quickly recognizing the potential near- and long-term benefits of moving fast to deploy AI PCs into their installed base.
Talk with your most important ISVs to understand their roadmap for future AI application functionality, and remember that you’re buying systems that will be in place for years.
As more companies embrace AI and GenAI workloads, more workloads will need to move from the cloud to the client to drive improved performance, enhanced security and privacy, and lower overall costs.
Forward-thinking companies are moving fast to adopt AI PCs as they plan their final push toward completing their Windows 11 transition.
“In healthcare, privacy and security are extremely important because we're dealing with patients’ confidential health information. I think that's also one of the reasons that if you can do the computing at the edge, less data is submitted in the cloud, so less vulnerability for any security risk."
ITMD for a healthcare services company
“The challenge companies have with Generative AI is that most of the computing is not on the local PC, but on the servers within the data center. This latency impacts productivity, and security can also be impacted. But if I have AI on my laptop…I can do things offline without having access to the servers and stuff like that. So, I think in the future, we will aggressively look at that as we buy our next generation of laptops and desktops.”
ITDM for a wholesaler business