they give us a notion of what to look out for what to research when we're shopping for parts and what is the short-term and long-term effect of opening our device another thing that's amazing about this teardown is the relative ease i'm comparing this to opening a modern smartphone or even some of the other handheld gaming pcs on the market there are three tools on the cutting board two screwdrivers and a pair of anti-static tweezers the latter for pulling on small connections surprisingly there are no shims involved i wonder if you'll need shims to pry up in a freshly unopened final product or if this is really it the steam deck is sitting face down on a custom mold that looks to be used to hold the device in place without having to put undue pressure on the analog sticks or the screen they make mention of buying replacement parts hopefully this mold is also available for purchase after removing eight screws he removes the back plate using only his fingers to pry it off once that's done we see the inside of the device as you can imagine everything is tightly packed and interestingly linus's analysis of the innards using only his trusty thermal cam is pretty spot on there's a cage here that has to be removed to get to the ssd but the memory and apu are also under here there's an assembly for the left and right analog sticks on each side nice touch with the l r labeling right below each is a board for what appears to be the trackpad input it's a little hard to tell because i think these boards stretch to underneath the shoulder buttons but i believe they handle the rest of the inputs as well d-pad steam and select buttons for the left abxy start and ellipses buttons on the right shoulder buttons and paddles for each look like they live here too you can even see the switches for the paddles the battery takes a lot of space here the fan is here but i'm not sure what it's pointing at perhaps it's blowing heat from the heatsink out through the exhaust which lives at the top of the device and finally here's the ssd overall we got a really good look at most of the components we got a thorough understanding of how to replace the ssd or an analog stick we got plenty of appropriate warnings as to why we should not do any of this and leave it to the professionals and mostly we got the impression from valve that there will be a clear avenue for hardware servicing and support including the ability to buy individual replacement parts the biggest con of the teardown are the self-tapping screws which can damage the housing if over tighten consequently they point out that the structural integrity of the deck will be lessened as soon as you open it overall this was an excellent teardown and it seemed to be received that way too do you think you'll be opening up your device if so why let me know in the comments also now's a good time to say i think you can see i put a lot of work into these news videos if you like what i'm doing like subscribe and slap the bell while a bit overshadowed by the teardown the other big news from wednesday was seeing witcher NUMBER_TOKEN play on the steam deck courtesy of the witcher's official account on twitter i
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