meaning of oem

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CaVoLo

macrumors member

Original poster

• Apr 29, 2003

• #1

this probably sounds retarded to most of you but please tell me the meaning of oem....
hey we all had to learn it sometime 🙂

thanks

 

Jaykay

macrumors 6502a

• Apr 29, 2003

• #2

well im not sure what it stands for but i know that an OEM company are like, the standard/default suppliers of a product for a certain other product. Like ATI used to be for macs, as standard ya get an ATI card and youd have to specially get a different one if you wanted something like a 3dfx card or something as ATI were the OEM graphics card company for apple at the time.

 

cb911

macrumors 601

• Apr 29, 2003

• #3

i think it means Original Equipment Manufacturer. not 100% sure though.

 

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Jesus on OSX

macrumors member

• Apr 29, 2003

• #4

Original Equipment Manufacturer

It's when a company uses 3rd party parts to build/sell products under it's own brand.