Surprisingly anti-consumer practice from Valve - battery should be secured to the frame with torx screws for easier replacement, like for example batteries in HP elitebook G3's, not glued with the strongest adhesive known to man. There's plenty of space inside the steamdeck for 3 mounting points for the battery, that's enough to secure it tightly enough to not risk any mechanical damage.
@@andrewho2456 Other than for making device resistant to moisture and dust, I'm not in favor of using adhesive at all, least of all to secure the most often replaced internals.
The captions for this video are really off. I hope they get fixed for the sake of people with hearing issues or just those who have to fix their device in a noisy environment.
How long is Valve and iFixit going to sell batteries for these things? I really like my regular lcd one that is modded with 32GB of ram and a 2TB ssd and my stock oled both in killswitch cases. I remember when cell phones had removable batteries and HTC oem extended batteries with slightly thicker rear covers. Those were generally only available for a year or two and then it was only knockoffs for every one of my htc wizard, hermes, kaiser, and rhodium.
@@brandon_nope This is a useless analogy, every iphone sells in the 10's or hundreds of millions worldwide and the Steam Deck is comparatively a very niche product.
15000 reward if you weren't fixing it as Skitra or Wrathion - should know integrated batteries are bad thing and only option after is getting new hardware. Only thing important here at students campus playlist is overheating maintenance and .Net Maui app for those rogue dancers at students campus. Getting graphics upgrades for it - not recommended for ford Ka owners who are already tight on a budget and rather won't do same odoo accountancy anytime soon again. Integrated batery can bloat and you as in experienced owner can't do anything about it yourself if you see like your phone powering down or screen not working properly.
Valve is taking the apple route. Very hard to repair stuff in steam deck. Glued battry, mischievously placed antenna, easy wear down joysticks. Let's see how far they will go
What are you talking about ? Regular accessible screws, slots on the battery well to easily slice the adhesive, available both first and third party, consumer available parts through official channels. The shield on the motherboard is also not damaged by removing it. Other than the adhesive not being super convenient there is nothing to complain about or even wrong here.
@@manitoba-op4jx They do sell replacement audio boards. Still, at one point you have to draw a line, the motherboard is were most of the expensive stuff is, if there are issues on it, like any other high value PCB. For any repair to make sense, it needs to cost less than what it would cost to buy a second-hand damaged Deck. Anyway I don't see how Valve would be "taking the Apple route" with the Deck.
