Steam Deck Replacement Parts Will Be Available from iFixit

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Valve has confirmed that replacement parts for the Steam Deck will be available from iFixit after the handheld PC’s official release, offering an easier way for clumsy or unfortunate owners to restore their systems to their original states and intended functionality.



As noted by Valve in a new blog post, the partnership with iFixit fulfills the company’s previous promise of making Steam Deck replacement parts available for purchase. Replacement parts for the Valve Index, Valve’s VR headset, will also be available from the how-to website’s parts store, which already offers parts for devices ranging from iPhones to Xbox consoles.



Complementing Valve’s announcement is iFixit’s own teardown of the Steam Deck, which was published today on YouTube. The system received a 7 out of 10 on iFixit’s repairability scale due to some challenges such as a...
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Dogsofjune said:
Oh, good to know some random of the week employee at a mall kiosk can get my Steam deck straight.
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Just means that upgrading the storage on your steam deck is a bit easier. Steam deck with 2 or more terabytes of high speed storage yes please.
 
Grimlakin said:
Just means that upgrading the storage on your steam deck is a bit easier. Steam deck with 2 or more terabytes of high speed storage yes please.
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Lets hope that's the case, however, I'm fairly confident that I can swap the 512 GB NVME out of mine myself. Assuming it'll accept bigger NVME's. Hope it does. Still waiting patiently for it to ship
 
I really have to commend Valve on everything they are doing with this thing. It may not be the most powerful thing out there but they are checking as many boxes as they can for the end-users when it comes to reparability and customization. Now if they could come up with a socketed small form factor design that allowed APU/RAM upgrades, which would also likely mean some kind of power and battery upgrade as well, that would be over the top. As is though, it's still pretty impressive the amount of support and options they're enabling owners to have.
 
Brian_B said:
They should be able to - it's just the physical form factor that will limit you. I think they are running a 2230
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I think the real issue will be getting the os back on the drive unless the os is separate from the storage itself.
 
Grimlakin said:
I think the real issue will be getting the os back on the drive unless the os is separate from the storage itself.
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Valve has been pretty decent about making SteamOS available to Download, I can't imagine this would be a whole lot different. There is almost certainly some way to restore to factory defaults and reimage/provision a clean drive. You can do this with pretty much every console out there today, although some make it harder than others.
 
Didn't Steam say that part would be unlocked, so you could install Windows on it if you wanted to.
 
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