MSI's GUS II: External Thunderbolt GPU

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The porpose of these topic is to gather all the information about GUS II and to make MSI to sell the product.

For those who don't known, MSI GUS II is an external thunderbolt enclosure that has a pci-e slot. Thunderbolt is great because it offers a much higher bandwidth then current solutions, possibly eliminating any bottleneck.

Why GUS II? Because it's the cheapest (about 150$) and the only solution proved to be working and not just a design or vaporware or insanely expensive. MSI already has the product, all they have to do is to produce it and sell it.

If you are worried about the lack of thunderbolt notebooks, don't be. Thunderbolt is here to stay, it's Intel that sets the rules. In the future all notebooks will support it. Just like it happened with usb3.0, msata etc. There's already many announcements of future notebooks with thunderbolt and don't worry about the supposed high prices. They will be priced at the same as other notebooks. A thunderbolt implementation costs at maximum 50$ in the overall cost. Lenovo S430 that will be available in June 2012 that has thunderbolt starts at 749$ for example.

GUS II has it's limitations. It's not a DIY product, you cannot choose many components like the enclosure etc but it's a fully working solution. It can't handle more then 150W but I'm sure if we had an external PSU it will sure handle other cards.


So what can we do to make MSI sell the product?
There are 2 ways of making them aware of their opportunity. Media exposure and potential profits.
If we can get a large amount of people to comment in their facebook page and foruns and by contacting them, I doubt they won't sell the product.
We can also threat to boycott all MSI products until they finally sell it.

If you could post here and on facebook and on their foruns and by contacting them by email and phone it would be a great help for all of us.

https://www.facebook.com/MSI.ComputerUS
http://forum-en.msi.com/
Pre-Sale Question before you buy

MSI Computer Corp. (L.A. office)
Address: 901 Canada Court, City of Industry, CA 91748
Tel: 1-626-913-0828
Sales Department: 1-626-913-0828 Press 1
USSales@msi.com
Marketing Department: 1-626-913-0828 Press 2
USMarketing@msi.com



PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION:
https://www.change.org/petitions/msi...want-to-buy-it

[sarge_]

We can also threat to boycott all MSI products until they finally sell it.

lol

people who read nbr forums = <0.5% of their customer base
people on nbr that care about gus ii = ~3% of nbr population
people who care enough and would actually boycott = ~5% of the above

impact on sales in the best case scenario = ~0,001%

good luck with that

[Ctusk01]

people who read nbr forums = <0.5% of their customer base
people on nbr that care about gus ii = ~3% of nbr population
people who care enough and would actually boycott = ~5% of the above
impact on sales in the best case scenario = ~0,001%

Yup. It'll be better to just ask them nicely

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But objective isn't to boycott MSI is to create awareness. I couldn't care less about MSI or other company. I just want their ready made product available so I can buy it.

It's better then nothing. At least I try instead of doing nothing.
And if you 2 help me we are 3 and if you 2 get 2 more and so on and so on...

[Yixian]

Strong rep power/age correlation, OP.

[Karamazovmm]

Count me in

EDIT: I asked on facebook, about product updates

[sarge_]

But objective isn't to boycott MSI is to create awareness. I couldn't care less about MSI or other company. I just want their ready made product available so I can buy it.

It's better then nothing. At least I try instead of doing nothing.
And if you 2 help me we are 3 and if you 2 get 2 more and so on and so on...

So you're expecting them to somehow notice a one-thousandth-of-a-percent decrease in sales and attribute that to not releasing GUS II?

It's not better than nothing. It's about as pointless as it can get. You have a better chance of contacting them directly, but I really doubt anything would change even then. They're not idiots, they've done their research and decided that the product is simply unprofitable at this time. If it was profitable, it would be available today.

[Yixian]

I emailed MSI the other day, they said it's still "in demo" and to "check bad on the site in future" ie. no news.

[sarge_]

Perhaps they will release it after Thunderbolt laptops are available.

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I would imagine that but MSI just released new notebooks WITHOUT thunderbolt... though they were the first to release a desktop motherboard with thunderbolt.
and I think they have no plans for future notebooks with thunderbolt too.
imo we should make a buyers list to try to push things forward.