What Was Valve Hiding? - Steam Deck Teardown Reaction

[jakkuh_t]

 

[emosun]

let me guess , it's phone parts in a switch case

[RixzZ]

What headphones are Linus using in this video? 

[tone_bender]

Now I want a "liquid metal Steam Deck" video

 

just because...

[BobVonBob]

30 minutes ago, RixzZ said:

What headphones are Linus using in this video? 

Looks to me like Aiaiai's TMA-2 (TMA-2 Studio?) with some green thing (edit: It's an "L" on some green cloth tape, presumably to mark it for Linus) and an inventory sticker.

 

https://aiaiai.audio/headphones/tma-2

[GDRRiley]

this feels like valve needed to bring in an external production team, not to help with the audio or lighting but so that everything gets shot and this edit makes sense.

it jumps around like the editor has never created a how to guide and the shot choice confuses me as well.

the starting VO was strange like a lawyer wrote it

[Keystone Nyan Cat]

Request- can the video they are reacting to be linked in the description on YouTube please? I know it's easy to look up, but having something easily clickable would be nice.

[Peter Lobley]

22 minutes ago, Keystone Nyan Cat said:

Request- can the video they are reacting to be linked in the description on YouTube please? I know it's easy to look up, but having something easily clickable would be nice.

I just created an account on the forum to second this. It’s already super annoying that they watch a few seconds of the video before pausing to nitpick (or praise, to be fair)

 

Edit, I ended up going to find it, so here it is - 

 

[Sir.gg]

42 minutes ago, Keystone Nyan Cat said:

Request- can the video they are reacting to be linked in the description on YouTube please? I know it's easy to look up, but having something easily clickable would be nice.

Yeah I specifically went to the description to find this myself and was surprised to not see it. @jakkuh_t

[icezolation]

Neat first look into the device, but obviously a lot more to be deserved... Hope they keep up the good-guy moves.

[sub68]

2 hours ago, emosun said:

let me guess , it's phone parts in a switch case

nope, it has removable storage

[emosun]

3 minutes ago, sub68 said:

nope, it has removable storage

so does my phone

[sub68]

2 minutes ago, emosun said:

so does my phone

in a m.2 form

[AndreiArgeanu]

3 hours ago, emosun said:

let me guess , it's phone parts in a switch case

Not exactly it's far more repairable and modular than most phones out there. It has m.2 expansion, sd card and the board is broken up into various modules, making something like a stick replacement fairly easy to perform. And it has an AMD x86 APU which is nothing like the switch or any phone out there. Nothing of the steam deck truly looks like phone parts, it closer to a laptop than it is to a phone. But I'm assuming you didn't bother to check?

[emosun]

52 minutes ago, sub68 said:

in a m.2 form

ah i forgot things can't be similar if one thing is different

[emosun]

11 minutes ago, AndreiArgeanu said:

Not exactly it's far more repairable and modular than most phones out there. It has m.2 expansion, sd card and the board is broken up into various modules, making something like a stick replacement fairly easy to perform. And it has an AMD x86 APU which is nothing like the switch or any phone out there. Nothing of the steam deck truly looks like phone parts, it closer to a laptop than it is to a phone. But I'm assuming you didn't bother to check?

id consider modern disposable laptops to be more phones than laptops.

[sub68]

2 minutes ago, emosun said:

id consider modern disposable laptops to be more phones than laptops.

thats a chromebook in a nutshell.

4 minutes ago, emosun said:

ah i forgot things can't be similar if one thing is different

Its defiantly not phone hardware because

1. LPDDR RAM is basically used in consoles
2. The APU used is practically a Xbox processor mixed with a zen 2 cpu
   1. the connection between the processor is PCIE so...

[emosun]

3 hours ago, sub68 said:

thats a chromebook in a nutshell.

Its defiantly not phone hardware because

1. LPDDR RAM is basically used in consoles
2. The APU used is practically a Xbox processor mixed with a zen 2 cpu
   1. the connection between the processor is PCIE so...

well then thats a pretty cool phone

[Quackers101]

yes, the video was kind of "lawyer-ish" statements.

like "DON'T" do it, while saying you "CAN" but it being "YOUR" choice and what happens to it, and that they are NOT responsible for anything that happens by doing it. That they in no shape or form, say that you should or any damage from it like a bad battery or house fire from that.

 

However, it's just fun by valve to show what they can do and for doing things a bit... different... even if... it's... slow... progress. *dies like any project from these big companies*

 

At least it ties into some other parts of their own ecosystem and built up features.

[itisyeetimetoday]

Tbh, I didn't like this vid as much. What's up with the whole "they should have worked with us" comment from Linus, seems a bit ignorant and cocky, as some folks on the subreddit hardware seem to agree to.

[CerealExperimentsLain]

On 10/7/2021 at 6:47 PM, sub68 said:

thats a chromebook in a nutshell.

Its defiantly not phone hardware because

1. LPDDR RAM is basically used in consoles
2. The APU used is practically a Xbox processor mixed with a zen 2 cpu
   1. the connection between the processor is PCIE so...

LPDDR RAM is used in basically every phone.  What consoles do, since they went x86, is use GDDR RAM, that's graphics RAM, and they use it for all of their system memory even too. 

[sub68]

1 hour ago, CerealExperimentsLain said:

LPDDR RAM is used in basically every phone.  What consoles do, since they went x86, is use GDDR RAM, that's graphics RAM, and they use it for all of their system memory even too. 

I must have misread the Wikipedia article oops

[Dr_badwolf]

1.) My first point
- If you stab a LI-ION battery, it might explode.
- if for whatever reason you want to limit this risk... You drain the battery to [Functional zero]
= A dead battery, while [Reading as Dead] is not [Truly] [0%] but more like... 10%
Will have less energy to use in a burning/explosion...

So if shizt does hit the fan, it will be less dramatic.

On a full charge however /FZZZTTT (sound of big flare up) 

[Dr_badwolf]

2.) Second Point
- A torque wrench-driver is indeed overkill... but if you really wanna be paranoid and certain... by all means, im not going to sh** on it.

[Dr_badwolf]

3.) Point numbering in the 3rd.
- Static has never been as issue with me... dont rub it on carpet.
Ive even worked on computers on a carpet, I just know to tap something big, metal and grounded, while also not wearing wool socks.