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Repairing the Steam Deck LCD Gets Much More Expensive as Official Battery Reaches $180
www.eteknix.com/repairing-the-steam-deck-lcd-gets-much-more-expensive-as-official-battery-reaches-180/
Just checked on aliexpress : a 3rd party battery with hundreds of positive reviews is 29€.
Yeah, that’s the confusing bit. We’re told that the selected third party batteries are good quality, but I’m weary that they’re all just being made in the same factory.
And by that I don’t mean that I think the AliExpress battery is necessarily bad. I’m saying I think it’s the same, but ifixit has found a way to gouge by suggesting that their third party battery is different.
It’s probably made in the same factory, but there is more QA in the chain (normally/I hope) and then the batteries have multiple middlemen taking a cut with IFixit adding their profit margin on top of every middlemen costs.