One thing a great many people fail to consider when asking things like this,is does your mobile/laptop actually have the hardware to be able to talk...
Yes,if running Virtual desktops as standalone VDI desktops rather than on TS-like shared services due to overheads,but since this is a discussion on...
If the applications want more memory they'll start swapping to disk,which means slowdowns (same as desktops). SSD/In-memory cache disks help somewhat...