With the display out of the way, we can get to the good stuff.

It seems Microsoft has been meddling with their passive cooler a bit—it looks like last year's, but with an extra little pipe down the left side—plus some funky heat-spreading pads.

It's impressive to see Microsoft continue to bump up processing power without much additional heat management. It will be interesting to see how well this new setup handles the heat under load.

Looking south, the similarities continue, with a quad-cell battery taking up most of the case.

On the plus side, all the screws so far are standard Torx. Let's get to twirling them out!