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The Fast Lane

Greater speed and better performance, but who in your company really needs the new Pentium 4 PC?

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This story appears in the May 2004 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »

It's a happy coincidence: just as businesses are gettingback in the -buying mood, PCs are about to achieve one ofthose performance milestones that signals a real buyingopportunity. A key feature of this spring's desktop releaseswill be 's Grantsdale chip set, which will complete theplatform shift begun with February's introduction ofPrescott-class Pentium 4 processors.

It's not just about galloping clock speeds, which Intelplans to push toward 4GHz by year-end. There's a generationalshift in most PC subsystems that define a new platform with theheadroom needed for continued performance growth. You'll beable to sustain a companywide hardware image for longer, cutoperating costs, and extend the time between new PC shoppingtrips.

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