Brown box
Updated: 03/06/2020 by Computer Hope
A brown box is a hardware product that includes only the necessary products needed to install into a computer. For example, a computer video card that is a brown box includes the actual card in an anti-static bag and the software (drivers).
These products are much cheaper than a retail version of the product because it does not include the standard box and other miscellaneous paper inserts.
Business terms, Google cardboard, Hardware terms, OEM, Off-the-shelf, Retail