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We have been leasing computers on a three year refresh cycle for many years. It was obvious from the start that this was costing us dearly to rent monitors withthe systems. It took until two years ago before we were able to purchase new monitors on the next refresh cycle and now lease only the computers. Since monitor life and technology was comparatively stagnant, we were returning monitor assets at the end of lease that had a significant life remaining.
In many cases we were able to justify purchasing LCD monitors to reduce air-conditioning load and power consumption.

I do agree with your suggestion of minimizing laptops to those in need. However, one of my clients provides docking stations / external monitors for ALL of their laptop users and I DO NOT SEE THE POINT! Why do they do that? I've been a laptop user exclusively for over 4 years and I don't even want a docking station. I do use an external monitor occassionally but I use it to extend my desktop, not as a replacement. Maybe I'm just goofy.