Project Tango Tablet Teardown

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We continue our trek to uncover the motherboard. At this point, we've got just a few small obstacles:
Two antenna cables
Two T5 Torx screws
One vibrator motor cable
Lifting up the motherboard reveals a hefty heat pipe running along the length of it.
With more and more power available on mobile platforms, it seems the only limit is dissipating heat. Loaded with that Tegra K1 quad-core, removing more heat means squeezing out more power. Google didn't want anything to limit Tango devs.

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