Video This Switch OLED Teardown Shows Just How Thin The New Screen Is
Video: This Switch OLED Teardown Shows Just How Thin The New Screen Is Nintendo Life Get a look at those upgraded speakers, too by Share: on As is , no sooner has the internet got its mitts on a new console than people are merrily tearing it apart to analyse its innards! A recent teardown of the new Switch dock was shown , but now the experts over at have taken the Switch OLED itself apart and compared it to the standard model in comprehensive fashion. As revealed once they popped the console apart, the Switch OLED model features different cooling and a new circuit board, and the fan and heatsinks have been reduced in size — the Ifixit team believes this is to accommodate the larger, sturdier kickstand hinge in the updated console. The rails used to secure the Joy-Con controllers to the console have also been upgraded, although the Joy-Con themselves are the same. As detailed in , the speakers in the new console are 'closed-type', as opposed to the 'open-type' variety used in the other Switch models. This essentially means that sound is pumped out in one direction only — towards the player — rather than sent out every which way as in the older design. The result? Better, clearer, louder audio. OLED screens are famous for their paper-thin qualities, but seeing the new console's screen stripped from its casing reveals just how delicate it is: Careful!!! - Images: , Ifixit highlighted several other minor differences between the Switch OLED and previous models, including: - Accelerometer made by TDK-Invensense instead of STMicroelectronics
- LPDDR4 Memory made by Micron instead of Samsung
- NAND Flash made by Samsung instead of Toshiba
- Samsung-made S2DOS04 power management chip (presumably for the new OLED display) So there we are! Nothing too unexpected or life-changing, but we love this sort of thing and it's fascinating to get a detailed look inside a console you own but wouldn't dare open up yourself. Let us know below if you'd be confident enough to perform this type of delicate surgery on your own Switch. [source ] Share: About Gavin loves a bit of couch co-op, especially when he gets to delegate roles, bark instructions and give much-appreciated performance feedback at the end. He lives in Spain (the plain-y bit where the rain mainly falls) and his love for Banjo-Kazooie borders on the unhealthy. Comments ) I love teardown videos! Pleased to see that there is no CMOS...hm, how does a modern system like this handle saving the BIOS settings? NINJA APPROVED That is really cool. Can't wait to upgrade! usually whatever bootloader Nintendo is employing over their hardware. Some ARM-based devices have “Trust Zones” or “U-Bootloader.” Not entirely sure how RISC (ARM, PowerPC, Cell) handles versus CISC (BIOS). I keep forgetting to look into it, since my Switch hasn’t been touched since January. I’ll do some reading on it eventually. Good internal redesigned but lackluster performance still hamper it. Like that display is now glass. Might upgrade if cash allows at later time. Anyone suggest a good screen protector for the new OLED switch? In UK. Wait, I didn’t know we could send our joycons to Nintendo to get fixed. Does anyone have a link to that web page?? Thanks in advanced! - I bought this from Amazon.ca but it’s also available in the UK. Works a treat. (I didn’t bother with the alignment guide, though) I don't have an OLED personally, but doesn't it come with an OEM installed screen protector already? Or do you want to put another one onto that one?
Thank you, will check it out. The OEM screen protector as they call it is just a plastic layer to prevent the glass from shattering all over the place. I don’t reckon it will actually protect the display from scratches. The one I linked is hardened glass and went on as soon as I opened up the package. JetTech is another brand I’ve used for all my devices and while the glass might crack from time to time, they are easily replaced and the device screens have remained unscathed. It also got a 7 out of 10 for their "repairability score". That is lower than the original model, but its still WAYYYY more repairable than anything Apple puts out these days! #RightToRepair since January?! Didn’t you say you borrowed and tried Metroid Dread recently?!
Don’t play us like a fool, ninja! lmfao, January was the last time I bought a game, sorry for the mix up. Up until Dread, I hadn't played since then. I'm getting old XD I literally just mailed mine out yesterday:
You fill out a small form and they send you a pre-paid shipping label. Go here for some troubleshooting steps and also to see where I got the link above:
*Looks like the repair program is only available in US and Canada? Not sure? May have to do some further reading depending on your location. alright, checks out… lol Yeah I went though a big drought with switch until dread. I get it. That’s mainly it, ‘cause I’m holding out on Dark Souls 2’s supposed Switch port. I keep chasing the rumors! Dark Souls ... Dude I was obsessed with 1 and 3. Never played 2 (yet)
If it comes to Switch it's a INSTANT buy. I know there are some gripes with it, I guess when compared to 1 and 3, but I'm buying it. I beat both 1 and 3 so I owe it to myself to at least give it a shot. I wonder if 3 will ever get ported... I don't know if I can beat Sister Friede again... That fight was IN-SANE for me. I had to have tried over 100 times. I think you and I are one of the few who keep plugging this series on here haha... So do any of these teardown videos show an improved Joycon? Fun to watch but I wouldn’t trust an ifixit video for a teardown. I’m glad ifixit didn’t break the oled Switch in this teardown like they with the New 2ds XL. Leave A Comment Hold on there, you need to to post a comment...
- LPDDR4 Memory made by Micron instead of Samsung
- NAND Flash made by Samsung instead of Toshiba
- Samsung-made S2DOS04 power management chip (presumably for the new OLED display) So there we are! Nothing too unexpected or life-changing, but we love this sort of thing and it's fascinating to get a detailed look inside a console you own but wouldn't dare open up yourself. Let us know below if you'd be confident enough to perform this type of delicate surgery on your own Switch. [source ] Share: About Gavin loves a bit of couch co-op, especially when he gets to delegate roles, bark instructions and give much-appreciated performance feedback at the end. He lives in Spain (the plain-y bit where the rain mainly falls) and his love for Banjo-Kazooie borders on the unhealthy. Comments ) I love teardown videos! Pleased to see that there is no CMOS...hm, how does a modern system like this handle saving the BIOS settings? NINJA APPROVED That is really cool. Can't wait to upgrade! usually whatever bootloader Nintendo is employing over their hardware. Some ARM-based devices have “Trust Zones” or “U-Bootloader.” Not entirely sure how RISC (ARM, PowerPC, Cell) handles versus CISC (BIOS). I keep forgetting to look into it, since my Switch hasn’t been touched since January. I’ll do some reading on it eventually. Good internal redesigned but lackluster performance still hamper it. Like that display is now glass. Might upgrade if cash allows at later time. Anyone suggest a good screen protector for the new OLED switch? In UK. Wait, I didn’t know we could send our joycons to Nintendo to get fixed. Does anyone have a link to that web page?? Thanks in advanced! - I bought this from Amazon.ca but it’s also available in the UK. Works a treat. (I didn’t bother with the alignment guide, though) I don't have an OLED personally, but doesn't it come with an OEM installed screen protector already? Or do you want to put another one onto that one?
Thank you, will check it out. The OEM screen protector as they call it is just a plastic layer to prevent the glass from shattering all over the place. I don’t reckon it will actually protect the display from scratches. The one I linked is hardened glass and went on as soon as I opened up the package. JetTech is another brand I’ve used for all my devices and while the glass might crack from time to time, they are easily replaced and the device screens have remained unscathed. It also got a 7 out of 10 for their "repairability score". That is lower than the original model, but its still WAYYYY more repairable than anything Apple puts out these days! #RightToRepair since January?! Didn’t you say you borrowed and tried Metroid Dread recently?!
Don’t play us like a fool, ninja! lmfao, January was the last time I bought a game, sorry for the mix up. Up until Dread, I hadn't played since then. I'm getting old XD I literally just mailed mine out yesterday:
You fill out a small form and they send you a pre-paid shipping label. Go here for some troubleshooting steps and also to see where I got the link above:
*Looks like the repair program is only available in US and Canada? Not sure? May have to do some further reading depending on your location. alright, checks out… lol Yeah I went though a big drought with switch until dread. I get it. That’s mainly it, ‘cause I’m holding out on Dark Souls 2’s supposed Switch port. I keep chasing the rumors! Dark Souls ... Dude I was obsessed with 1 and 3. Never played 2 (yet)
If it comes to Switch it's a INSTANT buy. I know there are some gripes with it, I guess when compared to 1 and 3, but I'm buying it. I beat both 1 and 3 so I owe it to myself to at least give it a shot. I wonder if 3 will ever get ported... I don't know if I can beat Sister Friede again... That fight was IN-SANE for me. I had to have tried over 100 times. I think you and I are one of the few who keep plugging this series on here haha... So do any of these teardown videos show an improved Joycon? Fun to watch but I wouldn’t trust an ifixit video for a teardown. I’m glad ifixit didn’t break the oled Switch in this teardown like they with the New 2ds XL. Leave A Comment Hold on there, you need to to post a comment...