Title pretty much, my brand new deck arrived today and I wasted no time loading up all my games and linux desktop apps onto it. I was pretty much firmly sold on it after having the opportunity to experience one 😁
Out of excitement I also impulse ordered a full replacement shell in advance, thinking I was prepared to also tackle the screen. Turns out I was wrong - the screen is so well stuck down that I couldn’t get it to budge with a 2kw hot air gun. The battery was also getting quite warm from the heat.
Pretty much ended up putting everything back to the original casing before I damaged something, and settled for just changing the back cover instead 😢
Maybe I’ll give the replacement shell another shot in future, but not too sure to be honest.
Anyone managed to do a full shell swap? How did you find it?
It can definitely be done.
But when all the actual experts who do it every day are telling you “fuck that shit; it’s too much work”, it’s probably a pain in the ass.
no hardware that glues screens and batteries like this should ever be free of heavy criticism.
those are the items that needs the most replacement and are the easiest to ruin when trying to pry them off.