More and more business people who have to travel are using notebook computers and many of these people choose to use an audio visual rental company to hire them.
Many audio visual rental companies are seeing the rising figures of short-term computer rental aswell as long-term computer leasing. Sometimes a short-term rental from an audio visual rental company is worth paying out for if your computer is being repaired. If your business requires you to be on the move you could miss closing an important deal which in turn could loose you a customer and the revenue. You have to determine whether the cost of using an audio visual rental company to have the use of a mobile laptop will out weigh the cost of maybe loosing an important contract.
If you need a computer for longer than say, two weeks; then it might be worth your while to enter a mobile leasing agreement. Generally, a mobile leasing agreement will be more cost effective over a period of time. Then again if it is going to be weeks it may be wiser to buy a new one. There are audio visual rental companies in most of the major cities across the country that would be glad to help and advise you.
Another point to remember is that travellers from and going to different countries will incur currency differences and so this has to be taken into consideration. If an American traveller hires a computer in British pounds, not in American dollars; the cost will be almost doubled.