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- OEM (original equipment manufacturer)
- Company that assembles components made by other manufacturers and sells the computers under own name > More
- OLED (organic light-emitting diode)
- Display device that operates by sandwiching carbon-based films between two charged electrodes > More
- Ogg Vorbis
- An open-source codec > More
- open source
- With open-source software, the original programming 'blueprints' of a program are available so that anyone can make changes > More
- overclocking
- Modifying computer hardware to make its CPU run faster than the manufacturer intended > More
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