MORE MMX MODELS Reader Rajan Khakurel of Kathmandu, Nepal, wonders about the availability of Intel's MMX Pentium microprocessors in laptops and the prospects for price declines in coming months. Most laptop makers have incorporated multimedia-savvy 150- and 166-Mhz MMX chips in their top-of-the-line notebooks and are now pushing them down into midrange and value-line models. The good news for consumers is that the prices manufacturers pay for Pentium chips are expected to fall sharply after Intel introduces its newest model, the Pentium II, in May. Pentium IIs won't be available in notebooks, though, until a new modular design, code-named Deschutes, comes out, probably early in 1998.

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