MicroRentals rents IT and audio-visual equipment to Gold Coast businesses from a fleet we own outright — over 2,000 laptops plus desktops, servers, displays and event technology. On-site work is handled by our Gold Coast-based technicians. We have been renting business equipment since 1987, and we work with organisations rather than households.
We own the equipment. That is the whole point.
Most companies offering equipment hire on the Gold Coast do not hold any. They take your order, place one of their own with a distributor, and pass on whatever lead time they are given. When the distributor is short, you are short.
Our fleet sits in our own warehouse — over 2,000 laptops, plus desktops, workstations, servers, monitors, large-format displays and event technology. When you ring about twenty-five iPads for an event in three weeks, we are checking a shelf rather than checking with a supplier.
Being straight about how equipment gets here
The warehouse is in Sydney. We are not going to pretend otherwise.
What we commit to is dispatch: stocked configurations leave within 24 hours. Final delivery is by third-party courier, and the transit leg is theirs. We give you their estimate when you order and we do not promise a delivery date we do not control. Custom imaging adds around three days before dispatch.
The part of this that is genuinely local
Our technicians on the Gold Coast are based here. On-site setup, meeting a delivery, swapping a failed device over rather than leaving a replacement at a reception desk — done by people who live on the coast, covering Southport and the Broadwater, Surfers and Broadbeach, Robina and Varsity Lakes, Nerang and the Hinterland edge, Helensvale, Hope Island and the northern corridor, and south to Burleigh, Palm Beach and Coolangatta.
That coverage matters here more than the population suggests, because the Gold Coast is a long, thin city. Being competent in Southport does not help a business at Coolangatta airport, and a supplier whose idea of the Gold Coast is Surfers Paradise will find that out the first time something goes wrong at the other end of the M1.
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 recovery scramble after an outage. 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, conferences and production
The Gold Coast runs a business events calendar out of proportion to its size — the convention and exhibition centre at Broadbeach, hotel and resort function space the length of the coast, the university campuses at Southport and Robina, and a steady flow of conferences that come here precisely because delegates want to.
Event work fails differently 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 and speaker preview, large displays for signage and stage, audio for breakout rooms — supplied configured, delivered to the venue, and collected at bump-out.
There is a second strand here that most cities do not have: screen production. Productions are the purest form of rental demand there is — a defined shoot, a known crew size, a hard finish date, and no desire whatsoever to own a pile of laptops and monitors afterwards. Tell us the schedule and the crew and we will work to it.
Seasonality, and small businesses that scale
The Gold Coast business base skews small, seasonal and project-driven — which is exactly the profile that rental exists to serve.
Demand here arrives in peaks: the events season, the holiday trade, a development that staffs a sales suite for eight months, a contact centre that triples through a campaign. Buying equipment to cover a peak means carrying it through eleven months of trough. Renting means the cost arrives with the work and leaves with it.
There is no minimum order quantity, which matters disproportionately for a small-business city. One laptop is a real order here, and we would rather have the small job and the relationship than turn it away for being small.
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 are dispatched. Custom imaging adds around three days; 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 — a replacement for a stocked configuration is dispatched within 4 hours for metropolitan addresses and within 1 business day for regional addresses, with final delivery by courier. 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. Dispatch and delivery. Dispatched within 24 hours on stocked configurations, delivered by courier to your Gold Coast address, with the courier’s estimate given to you up front.
5. Support, then collection. We support it while you have it and collect it when you are done.
Frequently asked questions
Do you have a warehouse on the Gold Coast?
No. Our warehouse is in Sydney and Gold Coast orders are dispatched from there by courier. What we have here is technicians — local people who handle on-site setup, delivery attendance and device swaps. We would rather say that plainly than let you assume there is local stock.
How quickly can I get laptops on the Gold Coast?
Stocked configurations are dispatched within 24 hours. Delivery is by third-party courier, so the transit time is theirs rather than ours — we give you their estimate and we do not promise dates we cannot control. Custom-imaged builds add around three days before dispatch. Ring 1300 790 650 with your date and we will tell you honestly whether it works.
Can you deliver to a Gold Coast conference or resort venue?
Yes — the convention and exhibition centre, resort and hotel function space, and the university campuses. Tell us the venue, the dock access and the bump-in window. Give us more lead time than you would for a Sydney event, because the freight is the part we do not control.
Do you supply screen and event production crews?
Yes. Productions are a natural fit for rental: a defined shoot, a known crew, a hard finish date and no reason to own the equipment afterwards. Laptops, workstations, monitors, displays and networking, configured to your requirements and collected when you wrap.
Will you take a one-device order?
Yes. There is no minimum order quantity. A single laptop is a real order, and a good share of our Gold Coast work starts that way.
How much does it cost to hire a laptop in Gold Coast?
Short-term hire is quoted per job, because price depends on specification, quantity and duration. You will have a figure within 20 minutes during business hours. Long-term rental starts from $79 per device per month ex GST, and includes support, replacement on failure and end-of-term collection.
Is there a minimum order?
No. There is no minimum order quantity — a single device is a real order. Short-term hire starts from one day. Device as a Service agreements have a 12-month minimum term.
Do you rent to individuals?
No. We supply business, government and education customers only. We do not hire to home users.
What happens if something breaks during the hire?
We replace it rather than repair it, at no extra cost for the term. A replacement for a stocked configuration is dispatched within 4 hours for metropolitan addresses and within 1 business day for regional addresses, with final delivery by courier.
Will the laptops be set up with our software?
Yes, if you want them to be. Devices can be imaged to your standard operating environment, joined to your domain or Microsoft 365 tenancy, asset-tagged and enrolled in management before dispatch. Allow around three days for custom imaging.
What happens to our data when equipment goes back?
Returned devices are wiped of all files and folders and rebuilt with a fresh operating system installation before returning to the fleet.
Can we hire for a long project and then keep going month to month?
Yes. Short-term hires can be extended, and long-running requirements often convert to a Device as a Service agreement, which is cheaper per month and includes replacement and lifecycle management.
Do you also manage the devices, not just supply them?
Yes. MicroRentals is both an equipment rental company and a managed service provider, which is an unusual combination. Hardware and its management can sit under one agreement. See managed IT services on the Gold Coast.
How long have you been doing this?
Since 1987 — nearly four decades supplying and supporting business IT equipment. Our engineers hold Cisco and Microsoft certifications.
Tell us what you need and when
Quantity, specification, dates and delivery address. We will come back within 20 minutes during business hours with availability, a price, and an honest read on whether your date is achievable.
MicroRentals · IT and AV equipment rental for Gold Coast businesses
1300 790 650 · [email protected] · Monday to Friday, 8:30am – 6:00pm
Head office and warehouse: 7-9 Underwood Road, Homebush NSW 2140. Gold Coast on-site work by our Gold Coast-based technicians.
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