CMS Peripherals Launches New "Thin" 4GB Hard Drive Upgrade for Next Generation Notebook Computers.COSTA MESA Costa Mesa (kŏs`tə mā`sə), city (1990 pop. 96,357), Orange co., S Calif., on the Pacific south of Santa Ana; inc. 1953. It is a transportation, residential, and light industrial center. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 31, 1998-- New High Capacity Drives Designed for New Category of Ultra-Thin Portables; Accommodate Even the Fattest Applications Easily CMS (1) See content management system and color management system. (2) (Conversational Monitor System) Software that provides interactive communications for IBM's VM operating system. Peripherals Inc. Tuesday introduced a new 4GB hard drive replacement especially designed for the newest generation of "ultra-thin" notebook computers. The new Easy-Plug Easy-Go 4GB internal hard disk drive is the industry's highest capacity replacement hard drive for ultra-thin notebook computers which typically offer hard drives with limited capacity. The new Easy-Plug Easy-Go 4GB drive is designed as a hard drive upgrade for notebook computers from leading manufacturers such as Compaq, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. and Toshiba among others. The new Easy-Plug Easy-Go 4GB drive leverages the value-added capabilities of CMS, which have led to industry leadership in line of reliable, high performance storage solutions for notebook computers, ranging from 1.4GB to 5.1GB. Easy-Plug Easy-Go internal hard disk drives are designed to accommodate the increasing demand for storage required to use the latest operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. , office productivity suites such as Microsoft Office Microsoft's primary desktop applications for Windows and Mac. Depending on the package, it includes some combination of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and Outlook along with various Internet and other utilities. and Lotus SmartSuite A suite of applications for Windows from IBM Lotus that includes the 1-2-3 spreadsheet, Word Pro word processor, Freelance Graphics, Approach database and Organizer PIM. Also included is a common toolbar for launching the applications and selecting predefined macros that provide tighter , and capacity hungry files downloaded from the Internet. The new generation of ultra-thin notebooks typically sacrifices hard drive capacity in exchange for the compact form factor. CMS' newest notebook hard drive replacement was engineered to add the higher capacity drives that users need while maintaining the compact form factor of the new ultra-thin models. "The ultra-thin computer is one of the key product trends of 1998, and CMS is one of the first hard drive manufacturers to recognize that there is an opportunity for larger capacity hard drives for ultra-thin notebooks," said Norm Williams, vice president sales and marketing of CMS Peripherals. "With a high-capacity hard drive upgrade, an ultra-thin notebook computer can provide users with similar capabilities as a desktop PC." Pricing and Availability CMS' Easy-Plug Easy-Go 4.0 4GB hard drive notebook upgrade is available now at a list price of $793. All of the company's notebook drives are covered by a three-year warranty. All CMS products are distributed in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. through a channel of distributors, including Tech Data and Ingram Micro Ingram Micro, Inc. NYSE: IM a Fortune 100 company founded in 1979 and based in Santa Ana, California. It is the world’s largest technology distributor and a leading technology sales, marketing and logistics company. . All products are also available through CompuCom, Entex, GE Capital, Inacom, Insight Direct, Computer Discount Warehouse and internationally through Ideal Hardware PLC in the United Kingdom. Company Information CMS Peripherals offers a broad line of cost-effective and reliable mass storage solutions for portable computers, workstations and servers. With more than 3 million CMS storage solutions installed in 61 countries, CMS is dedicated to providing users with exactly the right mass storage device for their application. CMS' complete line of mass storage products includes high capacity hard drives, hard disk drives for notebooks and CD towers. CONTACT: Lages & Associates Ally Engler/Paula Bordigon 714/453-8080 ally@lages.com/paula@lages.com |
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