The screen swap was easy peasy, the hardest part was getting the old screen out. Mine was already broken, and I wasn't keeping the front plastic, so I didn't have to worry about being too careful, except around the top edge where the mics and ambient light sensor are.
The case swap was a bear, took forever. I'm fairly handy, but the whole process took almost 4 hours. My buddy was doing his in tandem with me and he was over 5 hours, and that's with me lending a hand towards the end.
It looks great, in my opinion, and I'd do it again, I'd just start earlier in the day ๐ฌ
As far as the OLED goes, so far it looks good. The stock brightness slider isn't working, it must be a software thing? I have had zero time to look into it. I haven't even played a single game on it since doing the swap. I'll report back when I have time to give it a fair shake.
Man id absolutely love to do this, full screen/shell/battery replacement and maybe even a 1tb nvme drive.
But goodness any time I see the clear shells all I can think of is how they look like a toy/switch afterwards haha
I mean, it kind of is a toy ๐ฌ
To each their own though ๐
See my comment below for advice on an SSD swap, it's super easy
I swapped my 64gb LCD to a 2tb in about an hour, including reflashing the OS. Improved load times as well as storage space.
Yeah SSD swap is one of the easiest upgrades, with the most benefit. Plus if you get an external nvme enclosure and take some time to play with RescueZilla, you can clone your old drive to the new one and you won't have to reinstall anything at all. Pretty slick!
Now that is seriously good to know! Espevially if you've got slow internet like me.
I splurged originally though haha, I have a 512gb Q3 deck, getting a 2tb or 1tb drive isn't a huge incentive since I just have a bunch of 512gb sd cards, but if I open it up id rather just do it all at once ya know
Slow Internet users unite!
Mine could be worse, it's 30/10. Had it for a few years. Before that it was 10/1 though, for like 10 ish years. And before that? For a significant portion of my teenage years, it was 1.5/.5.
Before that, my young childhood was all dialup. DSL existed, we just didn't have it ๐ฌ
Right now they're putting fiber in my town though! Soon I'll have access to 8000/8000 if I wanted! That's way too much though, I'm gonna go for their lowest tier, which costs the same as I'm paying now, but gives me 300/300. Plenty fast for anything I need to do these days. Nice to know the capacity is there if I need more ๐คทโโ๏ธ