I just got my LE today and I’ll be honest, not sure I love the shell as much as I’d hope. It looks nice but the lightness in weight makes it feel almost…idk cheap? Being lightweight doesn’t inherently mean cheap, of course. I mean my switch is light but it has a dense kind of feel to it that makes it feel sturdy and still high quality. The LE shell feels like if I’d drop it, it’d crack easily and my old deck feels much sturdier. I will likely keep it in my killswitch case when outside, which is unfortunate given I paid for the aesthetic appeal. Idk, I am thinking maybe of switching mine to a regular as well because this coupled with the screen issue is a little alarming. Reminds of the fan noise controversy in the LCD version that Valve never admitted to but eventually they just quietly phased them out in later productions and only sold the better fans on ifixit. I was lucky to have the quiet one but I don’t really want to go through replacing a whole screen down the line if it was a preventable issue to begin with. We are also talking about a much more expensive part. Weird to not use Samsung on the most expensive models. It really feels like they cut cost and charged the most with this one.
I just got my LE today and I’ll be honest, not sure I love the shell as much as I’d hope. It looks nice but the lightness in weight makes it feel almost…idk cheap? Being lightweight doesn’t inherently mean cheap, of course. I mean my switch is light but it has a dense kind of feel to it that makes it feel sturdy and still high quality. The LE shell feels like if I’d drop it, it’d crack easily and my old deck feels much sturdier. I will likely keep it in my killswitch case when outside, which is unfortunate given I paid for the aesthetic appeal. Idk, I am thinking maybe of switching mine to a regular as well because this coupled with the screen issue is a little alarming. Reminds of the fan noise controversy in the LCD version that Valve never admitted to but eventually they just quietly phased them out in later productions and only sold the better fans on ifixit. I was lucky to have the quiet one but I don’t really want to go through replacing a whole screen down the line if it was a preventable issue to begin with. We are also talking about a much more expensive part. Weird to not use Samsung on the most expensive models. It really feels like they cut cost and charged the most with this one.