![]() Thankfully our friends came through with this amazing 360-degree view of the Steam Deck’s internals. If you think it was difficult to take our pre-release Steam Deck, box it up, and immediately ship it off to Creative Electron for X-rays, before even installing any games, you couldn’t be more wrong and we’re total professionals and it wasn’t difficult at all … said no one at iFixit. So, good job Valve we can take it from here. The repair community had questions, and Valve stepped up and gave real answers. On the other hand, this level of transparency-from any hardware company-is pretty cool. On the one hand, it was a bit painful to watch-they only removed a few components, they left the battery untouched, and the whole thing was laced with scary, slightly over-the-top warnings about how you could literally die if you do this wrong. If you feel like you’ve seen this movie before, you’re not wrong-Valve actually posted their own teardown video a few months ago. Our Steam Deck teardown unit (top) versus the unit torn down in Valve’s own teardown (-lite) video. iFixit also works with Valve to offer official replacement parts for their products, so, if they ever tried to pull a fast one, I think we’d know. ![]() They assure us it’s exactly the same hardware you’ll get if you ordered one of these. The hottest new device right now is the Steam Deck, a handheld gaming PC from Valve-the same company that brought us the Steam Machine, the Steam Controller, and … Steam.įull disclosure: We actually placed an order for our own Steam Deck last summer, but then Valve surprised us by offering this one a little early for our teardown. After that we dug right in, going further than other teardowns we’ve seen, and coming back out with some notable repair points.īelow is a rough transcript of our video teardown (based on a pre-production shooting script, so it may not perfectly reflect the spoken dialogue). ![]() X-ray of the Steam Deck (click for larger image)īefore putting a driver to screw number one, we sent the Deck over to our friends at Creative Electron, who gave us an early look inside. Valve’s new Steam Deck is here, and we’ve got a full video teardown of this intriguing (and impressively repairable) device. Our full video teardown of Valve’s Steam Deck.
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