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Nvidia Shield Portable Teardown

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We're excited to remove the display, but are quickly thwarted. The midframe blocks the display data cable and antenna cables, pinning their connectors down. We already had trouble getting to the midframe, blocked underneath the hinge bracket—we soon find ourselves in a vicious cycle of component Jenga.

We remove some screws and eventually lift the midframe out of the Shield.

This reveals a display cable with a fancy connector board, à la MacBook.

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