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A big drive behind the move to a Pro and Mini setup is the fact that it's becoming cost prohibitive to use the X1 chip at this point - and they've blown through the ~20M that were stockpiled and are having to mass produce them again.

We will definitely see an updated chip with better battery life and matched performance for portable (Mini), and one that maintains current battery life, but improves performance for docked mode (Pro).



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