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Looks like it's the Precision 5720. It comes with Radeon graphics. :-( Which basically makes my post redundant. Carry on.
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If you are going to buy a PC with Windows pre-installed, then I'd recommend the following strategies "even if you ARE going to use Windows"!!
Buy the machine with the smallest, cheapest hard drive option. (Then you're not wasting money - see below: )
Before you even switch on the machine, take out the hard drive and keep it on one side, that way you can always revert back to a clean copy of Windows if you require it.
The alternative to the above, is to use a disk-cloning utility and an external "backup" USB Hard Drive. CloneZilla is a free disk-cloning tool and there are others, e.g. Paragon Disk Manager. Take a clone of the current drive in your PC (i.e. the Windows partition) and once you have cloned it, you can overwrite with Linux and restore it to Windows again in the future.
I prefer to do one of the two methods detailed above with any machine I buy, that way I can get back Windows if I need it for something. The clone image is usually compressed and a lot smaller than the actual drive size.
If you are going to replace the drive, then buy another drive with the capacity you want (e.g. 500GB SSD). Note that the way vendors sell pre-built machines, it is often cheaper to buy the original machine with a small drive, and put in a big drive of your own rather than buying the same machine pre-built with a big drive. Just look at how Apple rips off their customers with this tactic.
If you buy a machine for casual gaming, or even as a Steam-link machine - The Intel NUC or mini-pcs from other manufacturers are pretty good. Those machines can be bought bare-bone (and you separately buy RAM and Hard Drive for them).
Hope you find this useful.
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You can run Linux Mint on a 10 year old laptop ( yes, yes you can I have one I did that to ) as long as your just doing light web browsing.
Now the computer your talking about is wildly underspecced for any kind of gaming ( i3 with only onboard gfx )
But I'm sure it will run Linux just fine for office / web use.
The problem is Lenovo has a bit of a spotty record in regards to locking their bios to other operating systems;
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160921/06403335582/lenovo-accused-locking-linux-out-certain-laptops-microsofts-request.shtml
So I would definitively ask them to confirm before you buy.
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That said, the only things I'd expect to cause trouble these days are wifi/bluetooth and possibly audio. The other stuff should be OK, unless it comes with a VIA gfx card or something...
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I remember Precision Workstation 5720 being covered on the sister site. Looked pretty neat.
Or are you set on the Lenovos you have available locally without the hassle of online ordering ?