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The least "Genuine" hardware I've ever seen and it's named "GenuineOEM" (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Reygle@lemmy.world to c/sysadmin@lemmy.world

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Working on a machine that BSOD'd 3-4 times a week, couldn't find much wrong but then I saw this. An NVME drive from a company named "OEMGenuine".
Their website 404's, waybackmachine says it was last cached 2 years ago, and even then it was a broken Godaddy landing page.

Found in a Thinkpad purchased from Amazon, sold by a third-party reseller who "upgrades" the devices before reselling.

Machine seems just fine/stable with a credible drive in it.

What's the craziest shady "brand" name you've seen in the wild?

EDIT: NEW Discovery! One of the ancient waybackmachine cached pages previously redirected to oemgenuine.NET! It's shoddy as hell but the .net domain is still visible today! oemgenuine.net

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[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Assembled in Mexico?

[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Right? I love our neighbors but WHAT

[–] medem@lemmy.wtf 3 points 3 months ago

Nothing too odd about that. For example, Bose assembles some of its most successful products (such as the Soundlink revolve) in Mexico, regardless of the target market.