Dell will sell low-priced computers directly to Japanese customers, heating up a personal-computer price war.

The computer was widely imitated as several other computer companies began offering low-priced portable computers with bundled software.

It will switch from a high-priced, low-volume strategy by introducing three relatively low-priced computers this month.

Analysts said I.B.M. has long been expected to introduce a small, low-priced personal computer aimed at the educational market.

With demand exceeding supply of the Macintosh Classic, a new low-priced computer, Apple's results could have been stronger yet.

Need for a New Chip The current version of the microprocessor is too bulky and expensive for Apple to use in low-priced personal computers.

The company prospered in 1983 and 1984 with its Kaypro 2, one of the first low-priced portable computers.

He kept his laser-like focus on the iPod and the Mac mini, a new low-priced, book-size computer.

Among those being demonstrated this week is a small tablet computer using Intel chips, and based on Microsoft's Origami design for low-priced mobile computers.

In 1985, work began on a commercialisable prototype on the Macintosh, the only widely available, low-priced computer with high-level graphics support available at the time.