Cost savings
“Goldman Sachs, for example, saw laptop usage on the
network (via dial-up) drop by 45%, with 19% of users
giving up their laptop altogether when issued with a
BlackBerry. It was also calculated that the total cost of
ownership for the handheld was one fifth of the laptop
($2,000 per user per year versus $9,700).” -Quocirca
“Somewhat counterintuitively, the ‘power users’ in the
sample group decreased their laptop use by a
momentous 70 percent.” -ZDnet
Source: “PDAs Storm the Enterprise”
Goldman Sachs April, 2001