[bradleyland]

I've had a lot more success with this tactic in small businesses than I have with large. It's really easy to go to an owner operator and express PC hardware costs relative to employee salary. For a $35k/year employee, an $875 PC upgrade is only 2.5% of their salary. It's hard to argue that you won't get a 2.5% productivity increase from keeping users in new PCs every couple of years. It's amazing how much more willing someone is to do their work when you make it less frustrating for them.