MSI Expects to Ship 50% More Notebooks in 2010
MSI Expects to Ship 50% More Notebooks in 2010
Posted 01/11/2010 at 5:37am
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According to company chairman Joseph Hsu, MSI has big plans for 2010, primarily with its notebook and all-in-one PC business. Hsu said he expects shipments of the former to jump by 50 percent this year, while he expects to the latter to do the same, if not more.
Meeting those goals might not be too hard to do. MSI's notebook shipments took a serious hit by inventory issues in the first half of 2009, Hsu noted, leaving the company to play catch-up for the rest of the year. Even so, MSI's branded notebook shipments were still higher than those in 2008.
As 2010 rolls along, Hsu said consumers can expect more notebook models with varying specifications, rather than trying to achieve significant shipment volumes with just a handful of models.
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Quakindude
January 11, 2010 at 7:43am
MSI Notebooks seem to be doing well in the reliability area. And turely, this area alone is what makes or breaks a Notebook line. I'd buy an MSI notebook myself were I in a position to.
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Biceps
January 11, 2010 at 10:17am
I purchased an MSI notebook for my girlfriend for Christmas, and it was broken out of the box. The wifi was jinky, only working about 20 percent of the time, and the webcam kept turning itself off. Customer support was very responsive, but not very professional. They told me I needed to update the drivers on the laptop (the laptop that had no internet connection). The customer rep actually blamed NVidia, saying they had put out parts without sufficient driver support (my question is why MSI then put them into their laptops??!!)
In the end, the driver update didn't fix anything, the wifi card (and most probably the motherboard) was bad, and none of the parts that were messed up had anything to do with NVidia. I returned the laptop and now my girlfriend is loving her brand new Sony Viao.
A word to the wise: you get what you pay for.
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