Introduction
Read the complete Steam Deck teardown on our blog!
Video Overview
- The opening procedure is simple and straightforward
- There’s above-average modularity for most components
- You only need one Phillips screwdriver for all your repairs
- The storage solution here outclasses a lot of current laptops
- The battery is difficult to remove
- We would have preferred a more modular charge port
Final Thoughts
Repairability Score
7
Repairability 7 out of 10
(10 is easiest to repair)
(10 is easiest to repair)
5 Comments
Exciting news! I’m pretty surprised that Valve used a custom-designed AMD APU instead of an off-the-shelf variant like the 4800U or something.
Ethan Zuo - Reply
Another youtube vid? Where’s the nice text and pic teardown? I guess it’s just not worth the effort for selling tools and parts, isn’t it?
Xeoninside8044 - Reply
There’s literally an entire service manual 😂 stop being negative just because you can’t search.
John Paul Wilkens -
Yeah....... As xeoninside8044 said, images and text please!
A videos a handy reference but I want to see high res images and read text alongside it, that way I can digest the description and images at exactly the right pace and it soaks in to my dense skull! Whereas with a video when you pause the image/s, you basically lose the text and are viewing it without the descriptive context.
Maybe that's just how I learn......
Russ - Reply
To anyone else here who might be looking for a teardown article- There is one! It's tucked away under the "Blog" / news portion of the iFixIt site, rather than the Teardown section for some reason.
Mark - Reply