"The motherboards are incompatible and we have overhauled the internals significantly": Valve's product designer shuts down the prospect of upgrading your OG LCD Steam Deck with a custom OLED screen — but is it actually impossible?
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Upgrades to Valve's portable PC gaming handheld are welcome, but can those who bought the first version manually install an OLED screen?
  • ThePyroPython@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 years ago

    Yeah, speaking as an electronics engineer who’s going through a new product release at work, swapping the screen to a different model, never mind a new display technology, means dealing with slightly different MIPI and TCP ribbon cable layouts. Unless you have a separate screen adapter PCB daughter board, that means redoing the track layout on the main board.

    So yeah, it sucks a bit for the consumer but it’s expected. I’d imagine Valve’s engineers tried very hard to find an OLED screen that would work as a drop in replacement. At least they’re not making promises they can’t keep, which happens a lot: Companies often lie through omission on their spec sheets.