IT Equipment Rental Sydney

MicroRentals rents IT and audio-visual equipment across Sydney from our own warehouse at Homebush — over 2,000 laptops plus desktops, servers, displays and event technology, owned outright and delivered by our own vehicles. Same-day delivery is possible on stocked configurations. We have been doing this from Sydney since 1987.

The fleet is here, in Sydney

Most companies offering equipment hire in Sydney are arranging it from somewhere else. They take your order, place one of their own, and pass on whatever lead time they are given.

We own the equipment. It sits at 7-9 Underwood Road, Homebush, about twenty minutes from the CBD and next door to Sydney Olympic Park. When you call at 10am about six laptops for a project starting tomorrow, we are checking a shelf rather than checking with a supplier.

Order by 11am and stocked equipment can be delivered the same day, across Sydney, in our own vehicles. Not a courier booking, not a tracking number and a shrug — our driver, our van, and a person you can ring if something changes.

Our vans cover the Sydney metropolitan area: the CBD and inner suburbs, the Eastern Suburbs and Inner West, the North Shore and Northern Beaches, the Hills District, Parramatta and Western Sydney, St George and the Sutherland Shire, and south-west to Liverpool. For addresses further out — Penrith and the Blue Mountains, the Central Coast, Wollongong and the Illawarra — we confirm timing when you order rather than promising something we cannot hold to.

You can also collect from Homebush by arrangement, which is worth knowing when something is genuinely urgent or you would rather handle valuable equipment yourself.

What we rent

Computers. Business laptops (Lenovo ThinkPad, Dell, HP, Microsoft Surface, Acer, Asus), MacBooks and Apple Mac desktops, desktop PCs and all-in-ones, and workstations for design, engineering and video work.

Mobile devices. iPads and Android tablets, iPhones and smartphones, smartwatches.

Infrastructure. Servers, network attached storage, switching and connectivity equipment, wireless internet, UPS units.

Displays and AV. Monitors, large-format TV and LED displays, touchscreen displays, projectors and screens, PA and audio systems.

Office and event. Printers, scanners, shredders, event registration technology, kiosks, stands and lecterns, whiteboards and flipcharts, virtual reality and augmented reality equipment.

If you need a quantity of something and are not sure we have it, ring and ask. We quote within 20 minutes during business hours.

Short-term hire and long-term rental are different products

Short-term hire runs from a single day. Training rooms, exhibitions, conferences, audits, seasonal peaks, a project team that arrives for six weeks, a disaster-recovery scramble when something floods. Equipment arrives configured, is supported while you have it, and goes back when you are finished. Daily, weekly and monthly rates, quoted per job.

Long-term rental runs from twelve months and is usually about not owning laptops any more. Hardware, imaging, support, replacement on failure and end-of-term collection bundled into one monthly cost per device — Device as a Service, from $79 per device per month, ex GST. What you pay depends on the specification, the term and how much of the management sits with us.

Short-term hire is priced per job, because a single laptop for three days and forty laptops for a fortnight are not the same problem. Tell us quantity, specification and dates and you will have a price within 20 minutes during business hours.

There is no minimum order quantity. One laptop is a real order. So is five hundred.

Events, exhibitions and conferences

Sydney runs a lot of events, and a good many of them happen within a short drive of our warehouse — ICC Sydney and Darling Harbour, Sydney Olympic Park, Royal Randwick, the showground at Homebush, and the hotel and university venues in between.

Event work has different failure modes from office work. The delivery window is narrow, the setup happens after hours, the equipment has to work the first time in front of an audience, and there is no second chance on the morning of day one. Registration kiosks, iPads for lead capture, laptops for presenters, large displays for signage and stage, audio for breakout rooms — supplied configured, delivered to the venue, and collected at bump-out.

Being twenty minutes away matters more here than anywhere else. If something fails at 8am on the day, a replacement can be on site quickly rather than dispatched from another state.

We rent to organisations, not households

MicroRentals is a business-to-business supplier. We work with companies, government bodies and educational institutions. We do not hire equipment to home users, and we do not do home computer repair or residential callouts.

In practice that means account terms rather than credit-card checkout, purchase orders, asset registers, insurance requirements and delivery to a loading dock — the paperwork side of renting to organisations, which is a different business from renting to consumers.

What is included

• Configured before delivery. Devices can be imaged to your standard operating environment, joined to your domain or tenancy, asset-tagged and enrolled in device management before they leave Homebush. Custom imaging adds around three days to first delivery; standard builds ship from stock.
• Replaced, not repaired. If a rented device fails during the term we replace it rather than fixing it in place — dispatched within 4 hours in the Sydney metropolitan area. You are not waiting on a repair queue.
• Supported for the term. Our engineers hold Cisco and Microsoft certifications and support the equipment while you have it.
• Wiped and rebuilt on return. Returned devices are wiped of all files and folders and rebuilt with a fresh operating system installation before they go back into the fleet.
• Scaled up or down. Add devices mid-term as headcount changes. Scale-down terms are set in your agreement.

Why organisations rent instead of buying

Three reasons come up over and over. The requirement is temporary — a project, an event, a peak, a secondment — and buying leaves you with equipment you did not want. The capital is better used elsewhere, and a monthly operating cost is easier to approve and easier to forecast than a capital purchase. Nobody wants to own the end of the lifecycle — the four-year-old laptops in the store room, the disposal question, the asset register nobody has updated since 2022.

There are tax and accounting considerations too, which are covered properly on the Device as a Service page. We are not accountants and that page says so; check anything that matters with yours.

How it works

1. Tell us what you need. Quantity, specification, dates, and where it is going. If you are not sure of the specification, describe what people will be doing on it.

2. Quote within 20 minutes. During business hours, with availability confirmed against actual stock.

3. Configuration. Standard builds ship from stock. Custom images add around three days.

4. Delivery. Our vehicle, to your site, at a time that works. Same day is possible on stocked equipment. Or collect from Homebush by arrangement.

5. Support, then collection. We support it while you have it and collect it when you are done.

Frequently asked questions

MicroRentals · IT and AV equipment rental across Sydney
1300 790 650 · [email protected] · Monday to Friday, 8:30am – 6:00pm
7-9 Underwood Road, Homebush NSW 2140 — warehouse and head office. Collection by arrangement.