[ale] OT: Computer Rentals

[Benjamin Scherrey]

Computer rentals have an incredibly wide range of rates for some reason and I think its 
basically who the companies orient themselves towards. Companies that try to win 
convention business charge you enough to own the computer after a couple of weeks. 
Other companies that provide long term leasing often have returned systems that can be 
had for a more reasonable rate but they won't necessarily be the latest or even 
configured how you want them. 

I have personally had very good luck with an operation near Perimeter Mall called 
Perimeter Micro. Joe Bowen is the president and I've done business with them since 
1995. I've never found a better rate and their tech support is great. Once I had to build a 
test machine that would run an old version of SCO Unix because the client had it 
deployed on hundreds of computers and couldn't afford to upgrade (because of labor 
costs, not software licenses or I would have insisted on Linux). Unfortunately that version 
of SCO wouldn't boot on most newer computers so the guys at Perimeter Micro spent 
hours with me trying different controller board/drive combinations until we found 
something that worked. That was way beyond the call of duty and they didn't charge me 
extra (although they should have).

Give them a call @ 770-393-3936 and tell them I sent you!

	regards,

		Ben Scherrey


1/25/2002 12:28:39 AM, jeff tillotson <ale at jeffx.com> wrote:

>I am getting prices around $1600 dollars for 10 pc with 17" monitors for a week.  I think I 
would be hard 
>set to purchase 10 PC with monitors for that sum of money.  I may try something like that 
though.  
>
>The instructor won't let us use the SGI workstations for training or I wouldn't have this 
problem.  
>
>Regads,
>Jeff  
>"Christopher Fowler" <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote on 1/24/02 12:27:09 PM:
>>
>>I could be wrong but I've never found renting these things to be cost 
>>effective.  Especially at today's prices.  You may be abe to but 10 
>>from a vendor in Norcross at the same price a commercial organization 
>>is willing to rent them for.  You may pay $100/day/pc for those rentals.
>>
>>I know you can buy 10  monitors cheaper than rental fees on that type 
>>of equipment.
>>
>>> Got a UML training class coming up that I need to supply 10 PCs for.  
>>Does anyone have any 
>>> recommendations of companies to rent PC from?
>>> 
>
>
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