It says Steam Deck OLED “parts are not swappable” with the original LCD version.
If you have anything like my tinkering soul, the first thing to occur to you the instant you heard Valve was making a Steam Deck OLED was about whether you’d be able to buy the screen from iFixit—in the same way you can buy the top LCD Steam Deck panel right now—and drop it into an original Deck.
Sadly, it looks like that’s not going to be a thing… but that’s obviously not going to stop people trying.
A lot has changed inside the Steam Deck OLED; it’s far more than just a new panel parachuted into the standard machine, and you can see that for yourself in our Steam Deck OLED vs Steam Deck LCD comparison. Valve has taken the opportunity to create “the definitive first generation Steam Deck,” taking advantage of the thinner display to tweak the guts of its handheld gaming PC.
