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Everything Should Be As Easy to Upgrade As the Steam Deck - Wired

Everything Should Be As Easy to Upgrade As the Steam Deck

https://www.wired.com/story/steam-deck-upgrade-rave/

The DIY days of making gadgets better and longer-lasting are long past—and possibly, hopefully, in the future.

Everything Should Be As Easy to Upgrade As the Steam Deck

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

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with the battery expanding and shrinking during use they couldn't keep it from rattling around unless they glued it down.

I’ve never designed mobile hardware, but it seems like the easy fix for that would be to glue the battery to a thin backplane and then screw the backplane down; then people could just replace the battery+backplane as a single unit…

(ETA: but I’ll take a Steam Deck with a non-replaceable battery over any of the existing competition any day.)

M500

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What is the battery glues to? Can’t that entire piece just be replaced?