The debuts are part of the company's plan to advance one more slot in 2012 in the race. Lenovo's Taiwanese contract suppliers, including Wistron Corp. and Compal Electronics Inc., are estimated to win the orders.

Lenovo Taiwan's general manager, Justin Liang, pointed out that the upcoming TinkPads will feature slimness and lightweight as a trendy design, and will be available in Taiwan as soon as they are introduced.

Liang was appointed Lenovo Taiwan's general manager in 2010. He joined IBM in 1995 and was promoted to sales manager of PC business department. In 2005, he joined Lenovo as deputy business general manager of Taiwan branch. From 2008 and 2009, he served as sales director of Dell Taiwan. Afterwards, he left for Samsung Taiwan to work as general manager of IT business for one year until going back to Lenovo.

Liang felt that Lenovo has gone through a phenomenal transition over the past year in three aspects. First, after acquiring IBM's laptop business Lenovo now has talents of various nationalities at its headquarters and overseas branches, offering the company true global views. Second, at a time when people think PC is a sunset industry, Lenovo's PC operation has continued growing in M&A, talents, product developments and OEM business, putting it in an advantageous position in the stiff competition. Third, the company has set up a Chinese-style introspective culture to examine why it loses and wins in the competition.

With these changes, he said the Chinese-run multinational company is growing more efficient now than before in terms of decision execution corporate-wide.