You can’t BIOS-update the battery size or the CPU node. The gains will be minimal…
You can download more RAM though.
Remember 640 kB of RAM should be enough for everyone.
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If you have an FPGA
Sure, but minimal gains still add up to more efficient use of what’s there now. I see that as a win.
I just want to know if they’ll let me replace the screen. I can live with the battery but I’d love an OLED screen.
the displays are not interchangeable, most internals are completely different.
Then why are there screen mods? There was an OLED screen mod done six months ago
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the displays of the deck OLED and deck LCD are not interchangeable.
Unless you’re talking about a one-off by a single hobbyist, the aftermarket Deck screen is still LCD, it’s just a higher res and more color accurate. Valve very specifically said the new OLED screen will not be able to just be dropped into the original Deck. Someone might get it to fit but it’d be a lot more involved than just a simple screen replacement.
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It’s physically the same dimension but it’s thinner.
Then it should fit, it might need a spacer or something but I can live with that.
I saw someone mention the connector is different
You can buy a screen from https://deckhd.com/ it is still an IPS display but this one apparently covers a higher color gamut.
yeah I’ve seen reviews of that and I am not keen
On one hand I kinda feel bad because I just recently bought a Steamdeck on Valve’s word that there won’t be new Steamdeck for a few years, but then again, it still works and it will work until the next iteration, maybe a Steamdeck. I would still kinda feel better if Valve didn’t make that obviously misleading statement, given that they worked on a steamdeck that is lighting better in all aspects for a long time.
That’s not what they said, though. That might be how it was characterized in whatever retelling you heard, but their comments have always been very specific that a new, more powerful successor wasn’t coming any time soon. They never said anything implying they wouldn’t update it at all.
This is the same performance target, just with a nicer finish.
It’s wild reading comments like these, because I thought they made it painfully obvious. All the headlines from that interview clearly delineated that they were talking about a “faster Steam Deck” aka a Steam Deck 2 and not a hardware refresh. Like here’s a Verge article from September
“changing the performance level is not something we are taking lightly… I don’t anticipate such a leap to be possible in the next couple of years”
All that said, Valve might totally still have a Steam Deck refresh in the works that doesn’t change the performance floor. There’s a rich history of console manufacturers releasing smaller, lighter, and more power efficient versions of the same hardware…
