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PC Gamer
Jeremy Laird

With vapor-chamber cooling, ray-tracing, tensor cores and a high-refresh screen, the iPhone 17 Pro sounds like a premium gaming PC, but I'll stick with my trusty old Steam Deck, thanks

Apple iPhone 17 Pro.

And lo, on the ninth day of the ninth month in the 2025th year, verily did Apple unveil the 17th coming of the hallowed iPhone. Yup, there's yet another iPhone out, the iPhone 17 Pro, and if the numbering scheme isn't flirting with satire, the extent to which Apple's latest iPhone resembles a gaming PC surely is.

Don't believe me? If I told you there was a new device selling for four figures with a high-Hz, adaptive refresh screen, backed by a sales pitch that name-checks "AAA gaming" and "hardware-accelerated ray tracing" and which introduces tensor cores to its newly upgraded GPU, what would you say it was?

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