Choosing the Right Client Computing Platform For Public Sector - Intel

matching the right intel® client processor
to usage requirements
Of the processors available in today’s market, Intel’s diverse product portfolio offers public sector organizations a wide
range of options to meet all their computing needs. See Appendix 1 for the range of Intel® processors to meet your range
of client computing requirements.
Figure 3. Intel recommendations for the different class of desktop users in your organization
Usage Type
Professional
Power
Advanced
Evolving
Basic
Recommended
Intel® Processors 3
E8000 series
Q9000/
Q6000 series
E8000 series
E7000 series
E2000 series
Current/
Future Usages
• Software patch deployment
• Advanced diagnostics
and repair
• High-impact business
productivity
• Professional content
development
• Advanced modeling
and simulation
• Building powerful
Internet applications
• Cross-functional/
boundary productivity
and collaboration
• Advanced content development
• Anti-virus/spam, spyware, and
data backup
• Cross-functional productivity
• Streamlining business process
• Communications
• Anti-virus and data backup
• VoIP
• Personal productivity
• Core content creation
• Essential communication
• Basic anti-virus
Benefits
• Enables the Managed Service Provider to provide
professional 24x7 technical support for much less
than what it would cost you to hire more full-time
staff
• Securely and remotely wake up, update, and shut
down systems, even if the PC is off
• Adds more protection against viruses and malicious
attacks with programmable system defense filters
• Industry-leading performance for Windows Vista*,
64-bit applications, and next-generation software
• Great graphics, excellent for the Vista Aero*
graphics interface
• Industry-leading performance with improved
graphics performance
• Improved energy efficiency without sacrificing
performance
• Protection from viruses and data loss
• Multitasking responsiveness
• Quality VoIP
• Protection from viruses
• Value and reliability
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Proof points
• Helps ensure more accurate automatic hardware asset
inventory
• Reduces the need for hardware-related desk-side visits
• Approximately 150% faster running typical office
productivity benchmarks11 • Advanced security and system manageability features to
significantly reduce maintenance downtime and reduce the
12, 13
need for desk-side maintenance visits by up to 56%
• Up to 2.75x faster on office productivity benchmarks
compared to previous-generation installed base 14
• Up to 9x faster on advanced Microsoft Excel® calculations
compared to previous-generation installed base 14
• Over 90% faster when multitasking than prior-generation
products 14
• Over 90% faster performance on compute-intensive
applications than prior-generation products 14
• 62% faster image content video encoding than priorgeneration
products 2
• 17% faster productivity benchmark than prior-generation
products 2
• 28% faster spreadsheets than prior-generation products 15
• 27% faster productivity benchmark than competition 16
Performance tests and ratings are measured using specific computer systems and/or components and reflect the approximate performance of Intel products as measured by those tests. Any difference in system hardware or software design or configuration may affect actual performance.
Buyers should consult other sources of information to evaluate the performance of systems or components they are considering purchasing. For more information on performance tests and on the performance of Intel products, visit http://www.intel.com/performance.
2,3,11-16 See System Configuration Details in Endnotes.
# of
Cores
2
4
2
2
2
Max.
Freq 2
3.33 GHz
3 GHz
3.33 GHz
2.53 GHz
2.40 GHz
Max. Front
Side Bus
1333 MHz
1333 MHz
1333 MHz
1066 MHz
800 MHz
L2
Cache
6 MB
12 MB
6 MB
3 MB
1 MB
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