by Jeff Harmon
on Oct 4th, 2006

Why buy when you can rent?

Ben, my roommate, recently decided not to buy a new computer for school when he found out the Brigham Young University would rent students nice Pentium IV computer for $15 a month. Renting at this price is MUCH smarter than buying if you are getting a desktop anyway, if you are a student you should look into it at your school. They include Microsoft Office too. It is a great deal. When they come out with a newer computer to rent you can just take it in and they will upgrade for a small fee. Plus if it crashes you have free repairs forever. Just think about it, if you are planning to buy a bottom of the line computer for about $300—that should buy you a piecer’ about as stripped down as a 1995 geo metro—you could instead rent a significantly nicer computer from your school for 20 months. In twenty months your piecer’ will be trashed anyway.

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