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First things first, OEM products are NOT FAKES!

To clear things up, OEM items, be it a motherboard, processor, Windows or a memory stick, are NOT FAKES. A fake item is something which is not made by the original manufacturer and are of inferior quality and its rebranded with a well-known company's name, eg Sony, Nintendo.

OEM stands for Original Equipment Manufacturer. OEM items are cheaper than retail items, that's common knowledge, I'm sure that everyone here knows. The reason why OEM is cheaper than retail is because it lacks certain things. Since its a PSP discussion fourm, I'll use the memory stick as an example. Whwn you buy a Sony MS(memory stick), it will come it a fanciful packaging. It's sealed, it has got a nice cardboard with pictures and talks about the the MS. When you open the package, there will be a documentation, warranty and stuff. That's a retail MS.

When you get an OEM MS, you will just have the MS, that's it. No nice packaging, no documentation and no support or warranty. You just have the MS, simple. Thta is why its cheap. In the case of the MS, its no real big deal, since the MS will be used for your PSP and the purpose of the MS is to store data. Nothing complicated, it can be used right after you have format the MS, bloody easy and simple.

The real difference between OEM and retail items are seen in the next example. Perhaps using MS doesn't show the differences clearly enough. Let's use Windows Vista. When you buy a OEM Vista, it works the same way as a retail Vista, yes same, no differences(of course you don't compare a Home Premium to an Ultimate). Now, using OEM, here's the problem, there's no documentation(as mentioned before), so you may not be able to utilizes the OS fully and effectively. It also has no support of any kind as Microsoft don't recognize an OEM Windows. So if your Windows were to face any problem, you can't rely on them, you will have to use the community's help, post your problems on some fourm or helpsites and hopefully someone will be able to solve your problem.

So this boils down to this conclusion: If you are tech-savvy or well-informed for a certain product and are willing to solve any problems yourself, an OEM product is for you, you get to save your money. However, if you prefer to have someone to rely on if your product were to mess up, or you like to collect or have the fanciful packaging, buy a retail product, its more expensive but it can save you time and headaches if problems were to arise.

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