The project has also unveiled reference designs for a second generation machine, which will take the form of an e-book with twin touch screens.

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For starters, we're told that the 10.1-inch machine will be ARM-based, while NVIDIA's Tegra platform (likely the second generation) steers the graphical ship.

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