Updated HP DC7100 still offers five years` guaranteed reliability, upgradability, support

Tarsus Technologies has announced the immediate availability of HP`s updated DC7100 business desktop, exciting news in light of the fact that this model has fast become the computing platform of choice for the South African corporate market and is well-known for its reliability, performance and extended lifecycle.

Says Jason McMillan, HP PSG Product Manager at Tarsus Technologies: "The HP DC7100 has become known as the best choice desktop for the corporate environment because of the stable and long lifecycle HP has committed to with this range, as well as the extensive hardware reliability and compatibility testing HP conducts before bringing a new model to market."

"This commitment to a stable configuration base and extensive quality control ensures that hardware drivers are kept common across the different models in the DC7100 range and that internal IT support staff only ever need to be familiar with one set of hardware and driver software," McMillan says.

The DC7100 also goes a long way to relieving the strain placed on IT departments` budgets and this allows companies to extend the usefulness and life of their IT assets beyond what would normally be possible.

"Investment protection is becoming one of the key considerations when corporates procure any form of business-centric IT hardware today," McMillan says. "A major benefit brought to the party by the DC7100 in terms of investment protection is the fact that HP has committed to a minimum of five years` support on the DC7100 range. Essentially, this means that the previous iteration of the DC7100 will be supported for the next five years and that parts and upgrades will be available for the same period."

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"Besides investment protection, HP`s five-year commitment ensures that a clear upgrade path is provided for any corporate buying a DC7100 range desktop today. This means that corporates are able to use their computing assets for longer and simply upgrade when more performance is required, rather than buying a replacement computer. This factor greatly assists IT departments in keeping spending down and frees up additional capacity in the overall IT budget, to improve other business-critical parts of the company`s IT infrastructure."

In terms of what the new range of DC7100 business desktops includes, McMillan says HP has made the move to Pentium 4 Hyper-threading technology from a processor perspective, has selected the latest and most performance-centric memory in PC3200 DDR Synch Dram and has based the DC7100`s internal storage on the popular Serial ATA standard, which delivers additional performance and reliability over the previously used standard ATA drives.

"HP has chosen to update the DC7100 with the latest technology available today, a factor which ensures that corporates truly get that little bit extra out of their business desktops. While the updated range has only been available for a short time, the demand we`ve experienced thus far is testimony to the fact that the updated range will surely carry on the legacy of being a firm and reliable favourite of the South African corporate space," McMillan concludes.