While I did think the pacing hit some rough spots here and there, by and large the story races along, and the reader races along with it, driven by excitement and curiosity.

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And invite the reader along for the ride.

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The interface is entirely text and music-based -- musicians, if you can call them that, scan an instrument name on the page before sliding over to the notes, which can be played back at different pitches by moving the reader vertically along the line.

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The cloud-based app, which delivers full Microsoft Office capabilities and Adobe Reader, along with Dropbox, Box and Google Drive integration, transforms the iPad and Android tablets into a one-stop-shop for mobile productivity, capable of creating, editing, saving and sharing Office and Adobe documents while on the go.

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As I mentioned, the overall software is based on an unspecified flavor of Linux (definitely not Android), (Tesla is indeed using Linux, confirmed the spokesperson, NOT QNX, as per a tip I received from a reader) and is completely built from the ground up, along with the user interface, by Tesla.

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You'll also get more ports than you would on some other Windows RT devices: not one, but two USB connections, along with a full-sized HDMI socket and a full-sized SD reader to match.

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Somehow, though, MSI squeezed in an Ethernet jack and full-sized HDMI socket, along with two USB 3.0 connections, an audio port and a memory card reader, tucked around back.

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