Texas Instruments Launches Extensa Series In Europe 09/20/95
SUNBURY ON THAMES, MIDDLESEX, ENGLAND, 1995 SEP 20 (NB) -- Texas
Instruments (TI) has announced the Extensa series of Pentium-based
notebooks in Europe. At the same time, the company has launched the
TravelMate 5100 into the UK market.

According to TI, the Extensa range signals a move away from targeting
high-end corporate users to focus on a wider market that includes small
businesses and consumers.

The Extensa range consists of three families of notebooks, ranging
from the 450 series, based on DX4/75 processor technology, and pricing
in at UKP1,299, through the Extensa 550, a 75 megahertz (MHz) Pentium-
based notebook with PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) at a claimed
486-based notebook price-point, and up to the 550CD, a 75MHz Pentium
color notebook that is billed as "offering multimedia performance,
without sacrificing portability."

Announcing the Extensa series, Walter Deppler, TI's European marketing
manager for mobile computing, said that the machines will appeal to a
much broader base of customers than TI's notebook offerings to date.

John Klinker, TI's general manager for the UK and Nordic region,
echoed Deppler's comments, claiming that the company has grown its
sales in the UK by more than 90 percent over the last year or so. With
the introduction of the Extensa range of notebooks, he claims that
this growth pattern can be maintained over the next few years, despite
the increasing price competition in the notebook business.

The entry-level Extensa range is expected to ship in the UK and Europe
immediately, while the higher machines, including the 550 Pentium
systems, will ship from next month (October) onwards.

According to officials with TI, the company's strategy behind the
Extensa series is to offer desktop performance in a notebook system.
Using this strategy, the company claims, allows the premium price of
a notebook over a desktop system to be justified on the basis that
the notebook will double up as a desktop machine while in the office.

The Travelmate 5100, meanwhile, is launched into Europe following a
claimed success in the US, thanks to the inclusion of a 90MHz Pentium
chipset, PCI bus, and what is claimed to be the "industry's most
advanced battery system."

The intelligent battery system in the TravelMate 5100 is Lithium Ion-
based which means, TI claims, that the battery life on the machine is
one of the most impressive in the business. Despite the use of Pentium
technology on the TravelMate 5100, the UKP3,399 (and pricing upwards)
machine tips the scales at just 6.7 pounds.

(Steve Gold/19950920/Press Contact: Nick Hewer, Michael Joyce,
+44-171-836-6801; Reader Contact: Texas Instruments, +44-1784-212746)


UK - Logitech Intros PageScan PC Color Scanning System 09/20/94
BRACKNELL, BERKSHIRE, ENGLAND, 1995 SEP 20 (NB) -- Logitech has
unveiled the PageScan Color, a full-page, boardless 24-bit color
scanning system for PCs. The system will ship from October with an
estimated street price (ESP) of UKP299.

The unit comes with a motorized, detachable scanning head, a feature
which Logitech claims enables users to scan bound or loose pages. The
integrated software supplied with the unit can be activated from
within any Windows application by simply inserting a page.

Officials with Logitech claims that the unit works equally as well in
color, greyscale or monochrome image scanning, and can be used for
copying, faxing and filing purposes.

The scanner has a degree of automated intelligence built in, a feature
that Logitech claims allows the unit to determine the most appropriate
settings and resolution for each task selected. The scanner supports
Microsoft OLE (object linking and embedding) placement functions, as
well as the placing of images among different Windows applications.

"PageScan Color is the result of extensive customer studies,"
explained Martin Pickering, Logitech's general manager.

"Again and again, we heard the request for a powerful, complete text
and imaging solution that was simple to use -- with no need to open
up the PC and install a board, no complex imaging technology or
resolution formulas to understand. And, of course, with the price of
color printers in today's market, they wanted color. To meet these
needs, we combined our expertise in scanning hardware with that of
industry leaders in image management, OCR and electronic filing," he
said.

Bundled with the scanner is a parallel port adapter that supports
Enhanced Parallel Port (EPP) facilities. Using this approach, Logitech
claims that the scanner can be used with any PC with a parallel
printer port, and avoids the need for a dedicated interface board,
yet still functions as well as more expensive units with such boards.

(Steve Gold/19950920/Press Contact: Louise Smart, Bogard
Communications, +44-1753-654333, Internet e-mail
bogard@cix.compulink.co.uk; Reader Contact: Logitech,
+44-1344-894300)

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