Everything Should Be As Easy to Upgrade As the Steam Deck
www.wired.com
The DIY days of making gadgets better and longer-lasting are long past—and possibly, hopefully, in the future.

I doubt this is news to anyone here, but always good to see positive coverage of the Deck

  • thejevans
    10•9 months ago

    Let’s also not forget that PCBs were supposed to be available, but Valve never released the calibration tools, so they were never offered.

    • FubarberryOPMEnglish
      2•9 months ago

      My understanding on why the motherboard was never made available is because it was going to be sold for $350, and it wasn’t worth selling a repair part for that much when you can buy a new 64GB deck for $50 more.

      • thejevans
        7•9 months ago

        That may be true, but the daughterboards were going to be under $40