Redditor turns Android phone into a desktop PC in a stroke of genius, sandwiching it between two huge CPU coolers so it runs Witcher 3 at 1080p ultra
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Hobbyists turning a Nubia Z70 Ultra into a 1080p ultra gaming rig is another reminder that mobile SoCs are already overpowered for many enterprise workloads. If your app is latency-sensitive and user-facing, you should be pressure-testing what can run on-device before you default to cloud.
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