The AI PC Buying Problem Every Enterprise Needs to Solve New

Over the last 18 months I have been in a lot of conversations about AI PCs — with enterprises evaluating fleet upgrades, with device vendors making the case for their hardware, and with IT leaders trying to figure out what their employees actually need. The consistent signal: everybody agrees AI PCs matter. Purchases are happening — Windows 10 end-of-support has accelerated that — but the buying is cautious and uneven. Two reasons come up every time: the AI landscape is moving fast enough that enterprises are not confident their requirements will look the same in 12 months, and they do not have a reliable way to evaluate what they are being sold. Most are not even sure what the right criteria should be. ...

April 5, 2026 · 6 min · Srikanth Samudrla