No dead pixels, no sub pixel weird colorations, just a totally fine normal Steam Deck with a fun color way. If you’re an owner of the LE waiting for it to arrive, freaking out about it because you’re seeing all the issues here, fear not there is a good chance your Deck is going to be fine.
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Sorry what’s BOE?
Inferior Chinese company that steals patents from Samsung and isn’t used by Apple because of their lack of QC and display standards.
happy for you! mine sadly has a dead pixel and a mushy LB. RMA’s already in process tho, the thing is amazing nonetheless.
I had 2 bad decks in like July-August… 3rd time was the charm. Was nervous about getting the OLED cuz of my previous experiences but it loooooks like mine’s pretty perfect!
Same with mine, very happy
LE here with a singular dead pixel somewhat centered on the screen. I’ve decided to overlook it given that everything else is top notch.
is it really dead (back) or just stuck a color? The last issue can be fixed.
Sad to say it’s a small abyss of a pixel, It’s currently black. I maintain some semblance of hope that it will one day wake up, not likely though.
I’m fine here too with pixels. Those vents look and smell real good too.
Mine is perfect, too! No issues here; absolutely loving it. Far more than my Legion Go and ROG Ally.
What is the use case for having a Steam Deck AND a Legion Go AND an ROG Ally?
I don’t get it either, but some people have the money to burn and like collecting these things. I buy things for their usefulness, usually. Having three expensive things that do basically the same thing doesn’t make sense to me, but it’s his money so…
Same here. 100% satisfied with mine.
Same, I just sat at the dealership and wore the deck in to test for dead pixels for sometime now and still hasn’t shown up played a game for like 3-4hours and nothing.
Not necessarily so for a dead pixel though
My oLEd is perfect. Every buttons, the screen. 100% happy with it
Same, but for my 512 OLED! Really love the blackout style colors on the inputs. ABXY, shoulders, start/select/steam/… all feel way better to press as well than on my original LCD. Everything is just so solid and snappy.
Came for screen and battery. Got premium build quality as a surprise bonus
Canadian here, my LE arrives tomorrow and obviously praying for no dead pixels. Personally, I’ve never had to RMA any hardware in my life before. I’m usually the one reading about other people’s problems than running into my own. So I’m trying to be optimistic that the dead pixel issue isn’t as wide spread as this sub makes it sound. I’d actually be curious to see a poll result here for those that have dead pixels vs those that don’t.
If it makes you feel any better my only experience with valve has been super positive. I had to rma one of the base stations for the index and they sent me a new one before I had even shipped the broken one back
They aren’t doing that for the LE though, and now it is out of stock…
I’ve done an RMA with Valve before and other than the length of time (somewhere between 2-3 weeks for me in the US) the whole process was super simple and streamlined. Get label, drop it off, wait.
But odds are you will be fine. Definitely take a close look when you first unbox/setup but I’m hopeful you won’t have any issues.
Wish I could say the same. Mine came with a dead pixel, and muddy left joycon. Shouldn’t happen on such an expensive device
Is the dead pixel thing or “weird colorations” or whatever a big thing that laypeople will notice?
You will notice dead pixels, here’s how:
You can open up Firefox (when you hold down power button, go to Desktop, then click Firefox it’ll download after a minute) search ‘dead pixel test’, and click onto it. If there is a dot on the screen that doesn’t come off when you gently use the microfiber cloth (aka check that it isn’t dirt), you will want to go through each screen color.
If a black dot only appears on one of the three colors, which are Red, Green, Blue, it will also show on White, then you have a dead pixel (subpixel, whatever color it shows black on is what type of dead one it is; i.e. black dot on green, nothing on blue or red means you have a dead green subpixel).
OLED displays work by using a red, blue, green subpixel to display colors. White is a mix of all three, black is the absence of them. So on white if green is out you’ll have a reddish brown or purple dot form, on red you’ll have no dot, on blue no dot, but on green there’ll be a dot.
Absolutely not unless it’s dead center of the screen
Mine 0 issues