Tell us how many employees there are in your organization, and we’ll estimate how much a PC deployment would cost and what you could save over 3 years with Chromebooks for Work, which includes:
- Chromebooks
- Chrome management console
- Support
But to give you something to bring back to your board members today. I have used a company size of 500 employees, for this example:
Purchase price
This is the cost of buying a single laptop or desktop. This calculator assumes your company replaces PCs every three years. (Source: NPD Group, Hall & Partners)
- PC: $61,500
- Chromebook: $24,900
Hardware maintenance
A typical warranty is 20% of the total cost of a new PC, paid upfront. This calculator assumes warranties are paid in advance to cover the replacement cost of a computer for three years. (Source: Google customer survey data.; NPD Group)
- PC: $12,300
- Chromebook: $9,000
IT Software & Infrastructure
This category includes software, servers, and other infrastructure for OS patches, system updates, anti-virus protection, and backups, as well as the administrative tools required to manage a single PC annually. (Source: Google customer survey data.; Microsoft Intune rate card)
- PC: $58,500
- Chromebook: $15,000
Management and administrative overhead
This category includes the personnel costs for distributing OS images and managing applications for one end-user’s desktop annually. (Source: Google customer survey data.)
- PC: $343,500
- Chromebook: $21,900
End-user Costs
This covers lost productivity due to setup, booting, system outages, troubleshooting, and ongoing fixes for one end-user and their PC annually. (Source: Google customer survey data.)
- PC: $145,500
- Chromebook: $36,400
3 year total cost of ownership
- PC: $621,300
- Chromebook: $107,200
And just like that you saved $514,100 and your IT Admin will have time to focus on more important things than software patches and tedious re-imaging and troubleshooting and he would be able to take that well deserved vacation this winter. Life made easy for everyone.
Note: Example calculation are provided for general informational purposes only, and are based on internal Google data and publicly available information.