It is chaired by Compaq and 3Com. MAC was formed to develop standards for notebooks after years of working with desktop-oriented standards that had filtered down to the notebook level, said Rebecca Krull, director of new business planning group in 3Com's Mobile Communications Division. A special focus group will also be formed to develop a universal notebook design, codenamed PC2000. Like the Intel and Microsoft's PC99 concept, PC2000 will define a standard specification offering consistency to users' growing disapproval of major changes to system configuration over very short periods of time. However, PC2000 may have more impact than PC99, which is focused more on desktops than mobiles.
Notebook computers are far less susceptible to the increasing trend of building systems to order.
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