In our excitement over all the new PC parts to judge, we wanted to make sure we didn’t leave out cool new technologies that are harder to classify -- stuff that’s baked into hardware like AMD’s Eyefinity tech or is optimized for existing platforms like Nvidia’s 3D Vision kit. But leave it to Intel to take the prize in this category with the fourth-generation of its vPro commercial desktop platform.

Intel’s latest vPro hardware adds new system management, security and client virtualization capabilities to platforms designed specifically for commercial desktops (and notebooks, too) -- a gift to the IT administrators and managed service providers who maintain and manage them.

Launch date: Feb. 4, 2010

Price: Varies

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