I am in need of a computer rental for approximately 1 month. My desktop is in for repairs (2nd time in 2 mos.). Any suggestions?

Watch woot.com - they're in the middle of a woot-off again, and every so often an entry level machine comes up for about $300.

If you know someone who goes to Temple University, you can get a nice backup system for $50 ($25 for monitor, $25 for CPU). They usually come with a clean install of Windows XP SP2.

Here's the site: http://crc.temple.edu/ (Temple's Computer Recycling Center)

For example, two systems available on there right now are a Gateway E-4600 (1.3Ghz with 512M of mem) and a Apple PPC G4 (733Mhz with 512M of mem).

Everyone is steering you in the right direction.

Rentals cost far more than just buying a cheap system. The rental market in philadelphia is 99% geared towards business.

A perfect example would be a friend of mine who rents keyboards for $40/day. I laughed my @ss off and said, "who's dumb enough to do that?", especially since the keyboards he rents out are only $20 to buy. Turned out that the joke was on me, as he stocks 100's of them at any given moment for the convention center, training facilities, and other areas where presenters and instructors rent everything for their seminars. Something about tax advantages-but I havent' figured it out yet.

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Thanks everyone!

$50?!

now that is a great suggestion. Thanks.

No problem. There is a slight catch that you should be aware of. Each student is only allowed one system per semester.