Sorry if this has already been asked. I tried to do a search, but it’s a bit harder to figure out how to focus the search on Lemmy. Anyway, I want to buy one of these shells as a present for my wife, but I want to make sure they’re worth it. Does anyone have any personal experience with them? I haven’t been able to find much in the way of reviews on them so far. Thanks!
I’ve put one on my deck and so far I love it!
The steam and … buttons are raised more than the stock ones, so you can find them better (though there’s no “Steam” text on the button, presumably for legal reasons).
Also on the stock deck I had the B button issue where it could get stuck sometimes, no such problem on the Extremerate one.
The fit is also very good, and it feels good in the hand.
I used to have the jsaux back, but I wasn’t fond of the metal “heatsink” and the back didnt seem to mate to the front properly, so there was a slightly raised point I had to sand down, though I did prefer the jsaux raised back buttons.
Edit: I will add that having a good heat gun is recommended, and if I had to do it again, I may skip the trackpads, they were harder (for me) to do than the screen, I felt like I was gonna break them. AND the difference in looks is minor since there’s a sticky black pad under them.
Damn that looks good.
I have a dilemma with these and the portable dock (attaches semi-permanently to deck) I just bought since it’s just boring black lol
