Lenovo

The Lenovo notebooks and workstations we deploy

With Lenovo we equip the workplaces of the businesses we support: ThinkPad notebooks for people who also work away from the office, ThinkCentre desktops for fixed office workstations, and ThinkStation workstations for technical teams that need dedicated computing power. Every device leaves our lab in Melzo already configured with your company image, joined to the domain or Entra ID, with security policies active, so the business receives a fleet that's ready to use rather than a box to set up on its own.

ThinkPads remain one of the most requested notebooks among the businesses we work with, thanks to the reliability of the chassis and centralised firmware update management, something that matters once a fleet grows beyond a few dozen devices. We propose ThinkStation workstations when a technical team needs more computing power than a standard desktop, without reaching the cost of an extreme graphics workstation configuration built for continuous professional rendering.

• ThinkPad for mobile work
• ThinkCentre for fixed workstations
• ThinkStation for dedicated computing workloads
• Centralised update and security management

When Lenovo is the right call, and when it isn't

Lenovo is the right choice for businesses that refresh their notebook and desktop fleet regularly, often every three or four years, and want a single vendor for hardware, management and support. It's also a good option for technical teams that need more power than a standard desktop, without the extreme graphics requirements that justify a configuration built for continuous professional rendering.

It isn't the right choice for the company's server infrastructure, where we more often recommend Dell, nor for departments running certified CAD software on specific hardware, where we assess other brands case by case. For a single-office business with a handful of workstations, a standard Lenovo fleet is still the simplest solution to manage, while for very specific requirements we compare the alternatives together before proposing a configuration.

How we run a Lenovo project

A Lenovo fleet project starts with an inventory of the existing devices: which ones need replacing, which can stay in service for a few more years, and which departments have different requirements. We then build a refresh plan that often doesn't replace the whole fleet in one go, but rolls it out in groups of workstations, spreading the investment and reducing the operational impact of a hardware change across an entire office at the same time.

Every Lenovo notebook or workstation leaves our Melzo lab ready to go: company image, network profiles, security policies and antivirus active. After delivery we stay on with ongoing support for the fleet, including devices not purchased through us. Our 25 years of business hardware support experience and ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 certified processes apply to the Lenovo fleet too, with the same tracked ticket process as any other IT request we handle.

Security, lifecycle and operational rental

Every Lenovo device we configure ships with disk encryption enabled where required, antivirus active and automatic update policies aligned with your company's rules. We track the lifecycle of the fleet to flag devices approaching the end of manufacturer support before they become a security risk or slow down the people who use them every day.

Lenovo operational rental lets us guarantee an always up-to-date fleet, without the upfront investment or the obsolescence risk of a direct purchase, with support and hardware replacement in case of failure already included in the fee. It's the model we use most often for notebooks and desktops refreshed every three or four years; for hardware meant to stay in service longer, we discuss together whether a direct purchase is the better option.