Sunday, April 16, 2006

Laptop Rentals

I recently endured a laptop failure that threatened my contract. I contacted repair services and determined that I would have a week's wait regardless of the repair option I picked. One of the repair services offerend notebook rentals at $75/wk. I did a little digging and found a variety of notebook rentals from different businesses.

If you need a laptop rental, look under "computer repairs" and read the adds. A few offer rentals. Check general rental places, too. The best deal I found was from a general rental place, Tri-City Appliance Rentals. Yes, the place caters primarily to students and rents anything that can fit into an appartment, including notebook computers.

I rented an Acer notebook with Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 1.50GHz. It came with a clean install of Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, Service Pack 2, Microsoft Office, and Norton Antivirus. For $50/wk I could completely re-install the system with my own software. I could keep it as long as I needed, with week by week extensions. I wiped my client files from the drive, but they also overwrite the laptop with a clean install ghost image after each rental.

Cheers.

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