Microsoft Surface Pro 3 Teardown

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Safety first! We disconnect the battery before charging forth. This battery connector requires a relatively uncommon T3 Torx bit. Lucky for us, our 54 Bit Driver Kit is never out of reach.
Next, we Ring Pop this surficial SSD up off the back case for a closer look.
You may be asking yourself, why a Ring Pop? As you well know, except for most natural blue diamonds, which are semiconductors due to substitutional boron impurities replacing carbon atoms, diamonds are a great electrical insulator, having a resistivity of 10^11 to 10^18 Ω·m. So really, we're just being careful.

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