The new PC is the easy part: ten minutes and it's ordered, perhaps at the price in the flyer. The work starts afterwards: it arrives with the Home edition that won't join the domain, the software that runs your business won't run on it, and the changeover burns two days for whoever suffers it — while the old laptop goes "to the nephew" with five years of invoices inside. A workstation isn't a purchase: it's a life cycle. It gets chosen, prepared, delivered ready to work and, one day, retired without leaving the company's data lying around.
This page is that cycle, managed. Managed means something precise: hardware chosen for the job it has to do and supplied with an invoice, workstations delivered ready to use and identical to each other — accounts created, email working, printers and scanners on the network, programs tested —, your data moved from old to new without lost days, and retirement done properly: a PC that leaves the company leaves without the company's data. Every workstation is handed over with its own written report: how it's built, what's on it, what needs keeping an eye on.
Supply and set-up are priced as a project: one clear written quote before we start — machines, work and timing. One-off jobs, as with all our support work, go by hourly rate with the quote by email; the aftercare, if you want it, is covered by an ongoing support agreement. And we're upfront about the edges of the trade: we're not a bulk reseller, our margin is stated; and application support for your business software stays with its maker — we prepare the machines so it runs, and check its requirements with your supplier before ordering.
The flyer doesn't know what work you do: a PC is chosen from the desk, not from the shelf. Accounts on two monitors, technical drawing, a till running eight hours a day: those are different machines, even when the price tag matches. Supplying with judgement means choosing the Pro edition of Windows where it genuinely earns its keep — joining the domain, disk encryption, centrally managed rules —, checking your business software's requirements with its supplier before the order rather than after the return, and delivering with an invoice and a warranty. On price we keep it simple: we tell you what it costs and why that one, margin included. And if a machine you already own is more than enough, we say so: the quote is there to buy right, not to buy more.
Microsoft has already written your fleet's calendar. The official support page is blunt: "Windows 10 has reached the end of support on October 14, 2025" — technical assistance, feature updates and security updates are no longer provided. The PCs still switch on, but every new flaw stays open. The answer isn't buying everything at once: it's a plan. We check which machines can carry Windows 11 — the requirement that rules out the older ones is the "Trusted Platform Module (TPM) version 2.0" chip —, we agree the order of the swaps; and for machines that can't make it in time there is Microsoft's extended security updates programme: PCs enrolled by a business "can receive security updates for a maximum of three years after end of support for Windows 10". A machine that does one job, where it makes sense, can live on with Linux. No panic — a calendar.
The hidden cost of a new PC is the working day the company loses setting it up. Ready to use means the machine lands on the desk already knowing its place: accounts created, email working everywhere — on the PC, on the phone, from webmail —, printers and scanners on the network that print and scan to the right folders, programs installed and tested on real work. And workstations are delivered identical to each other: same set-up, same programs in the same versions, so a problem gets solved once, not ten times in ten variants. Every delivery goes into the fleet inventory — the same one our ongoing IT support keeps in order — and into the workstation's report: what was installed and configured, what needs keeping an eye on.
A PC changeover shouldn't cost two days to the person on the receiving end. Migration is prepared in advance: we measure what there is to move — documents, email, address books, business-software data agreed with its supplier —, decide what comes across and what is ballast, and the transfer runs out of hours or in parallel, with the person still working on the old machine until the new one is ready. At handover we test together: open the email, print, log into the business software. And the old machine isn't touched: it stays as it was, switched off but whole, for an agreed period — the safety net for the file nobody remembered. Only then, and only once agreed with you, does retirement begin.
A PC that leaves the company must leave without the company's data. A retired disk holds invoices, contracts, client and staff records — and the duty to protect them doesn't stop at the door: European data protection rules apply to retirement too, and an emptied recycle bin is not erasure. Secure retirement means actually wiping the drives — or destroying the disk, when it isn't worth the trouble —, documented in the report: which machine, which drive, which method. Then the laptop can go to the nephew, to charity or to recycling with a clear conscience. And when a machine is merely tired, not finished, the lab repairs it: there's the PC and laptop repair page. The full picture of what we do for companies, engagement formulas included, is at business services.
| Workstation count and mix | desktops, laptops, twin monitors: each job in the company has its machine, and the head-count decides most of the quote |
|---|---|
| New, reused or repaired | what can carry Windows 11, what moves to another role, what deserves a repair: the order of swaps spreads the spend over time |
| Business software and licences | requirements checked with your software supplier before ordering; the right licences and editions go in the quote, not among the surprises |
| Data to migrate | how much there is, where it lives and how much history each person carries: migration is measured before anything is ordered |
| Printing and scanning | shared printers and scanners, scans to folders or email: every networked machine is configuration, tested from every workstation |
| Drive end-of-life | how many disks leave and how: effective erasure documented in the report, or destruction when the drive isn't worth the trip |
What genuinely moves the quote for this service: how many workstations and people, what is already in place, what must stay up. Agreed together before we start — and the quote, numbers included, arrives by email: one-off jobs by the hour, ongoing support priced to fit.
ElectrONIK Lab is an independent workshop: it is not an authorised service centre and is not affiliated with the manufacturers. The trademarks named here belong to their respective owners and are used only to identify the devices we work on. Your statutory consumer rights towards whoever carries out the repair are unaffected.
A free consultation, a clear quote up front and a written report after every job.