Apple iPads Shake Up the Laptop Rental Market

We’re happy to offer a wide selection of products for rent here at Vernon Computer Source. From printers, to copiers, to desktops, to laptops – we pretty much carry it all. And much of our inventory comes from tier one providers like Apple, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and others.

And while we carry top-end products, the market is changing rapidly and we are poising ourselves to move with the trends.

We’re happy to offer a wide selection of products for rent here at Vernon Computer Source. From printers, to copiers, to desktops, to laptops – we pretty much carry it all. And much of our inventory comes from tier one providers like Apple, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and others.

And while we carry top-end products, the market is changing rapidly and we are poising ourselves to move with the trends.

The push towards lighter, more mobile devices is ongoing and aggressive – and tablets are slowly edging out competing devices such as the perennial staple: the laptop.

In a market trends survey, conducted by ChangeWave,nearly 3,000 people were interviewed; and the results were cataloged just  before the iPad 2’s release. According to the survey’s results, more  than one quarter of the surveys recipients (27 percent) revealed their intentions to buy a tablet device at some point in the future.

Apple proved the group favorite, with over 82 percent saying that their heart was set on an iPad. The intent to purchase any of the Windows or Android OS-based competitor devices, like the Motorola Xoom, Samsung Galaxy Tab or HP Slate 500 had a slighter hand – taking up a mere 3 to 4 percent of the results.

Part of this laggardness might have something to do with Apple’s crack marketing team – most Americans know what an iPad is. The other tablets are late in coming, and are still catching up.

Even though tablet demand might be crimping laptop growth, there is still one market in which the laptop is still king: the business sector.

Since Windows has had a death-grip on much of corporate America, it’s to Windows-based devices that many companies cleave. When it comes to upgrading IT equipment, it’s desktops and laptops that they’ll turn to – not tablets.

That’s because Windows-based tablets are in short supply for the time being, and are likely to remain so for the next year or two.

Laptops will retain their lofty perch for the time being, but change is coming, and it goes by the name of “tablet PC.”

For Vernon Computer Source, we are happy to keep a variety of tablet and laptop rentals on hand for our corporate clientele. Whatever you need, we have – this flexibility is exactly why we boast the world’s largest global rental footprint. Need to rent a laptop, an iPad or a tablet? Visit us today for a FlexQuote.