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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 ๐Ÿ˜

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 ๐Ÿ˜ข

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?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Not done a shell swap, but I did want to mention: dbrand makes some really high-quality skins (high cut-tolerances). They even have X-ray skins, if you want a clear-ish look. There's other skins of varying quality from other sellers, too).

Just saying, if you want something that looks unique, a skin might be the easier solution.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

This is the way