It’s 2.59pm. One minute to go until the meeting begins. You click on your video call app and … nothing much happens. Not for a few agonising seconds, anyway. The call finally loads up, and small boxes containing the faces of your colleagues pop into view – but it’s a very stop-start affair, with frozen pictures and choppy audio. And under the weight of the call, you can feel the laptop’s fans kicking into overdrive, and the device’s processor struggling to handle everything you’ve asked of it.
It might be time for a new laptop, because when it comes to business, productivity is everything; lost time is lost money.