At 09:57 19-02-98 -0600, Donald wrote:
>I was reading Infoworld I think, and they said that Intel is
>suppose to release their newest chips April 15, and drop prices on their
>current ones.  So if you are looking at a PII, yes, they should be
>dropping in the next three months.

From Dr. Tom at <http://www.tomshardware.com/news.html>:

Prices Intel is planning for their CPUs in the next 5 months:

     MHZ 2/98 3/98 4/98 5/98 6/98 7/98
PII  333 $722 $570 $480 $480 $400 $400
PII  300 $530 $530 $370 $370 $300 $200
PII  266 $375 $375 $195 $195 $195 $155
PII  233 $268 $268 $195 $195 $195  ?
Cov* 266  n/a  n/a $155 $155 $155  ?   (*Covington = PII with no L2)
PII* 400  n/a  n/a $810 $810 $710 $580 (*100 MHZ bus instead of 66MHZ)
PII* 350  n/a  n/a $610 $610 $510 $415 (*100 MHZ bus)

Regards,
Bill