Discussion: Running macOS on an iPad: Challenges and Potential Solutions
The speaker discusses the challenges of running macOS on an iPad, including the need for a jailbreak and a hypervisor, and the difficulty of finding适? compatible iPads that run older versions of iPadOS, while suggesting that Apple should allow certain Mac apps to run natively on iPadOS to provide a ?
Running macOS on an iPad requires a jailbreak and a hypervisor, which are not available on modern iPads. The process involves transplanting macOS frameworks into iOS binaries and writing shims for missing APIs. The speaker discusses the challenges of finding compatible iPads, such as the M1 iPad Pro, M1 iPad Air, and M2 iPad Pro, which cannot be running anything newer than iPadOS 16.3.1. Finding these iPads requires buying new-old-stock, which can be expensive and difficult to verify. The potential risks include security vulnerabilities and performance issues. The speaker notes that instructions run directly on the M2 chip, which can lead to performance drops of up to 50% in multi-core tasks.
The speaker notes that while running macOS on an iPad is a cool experience, it is inherently limited and may not be the best move for hybridizing the two operating systems. This is because even with improvements, the performance loss is significant, and the experience is not as seamless as desired. The speaker suggests that Apple should allow certain Mac apps to run natively on iPadOS, providing access to Mac-class foundations while keeping the iPad's simplicity intact.
The article suggests that allowing certain Mac apps to run as iPad apps would provide access to Mac-class foundations while maintaining the iPad's simplicity and the App Store experience. However, running macOS on an iPad is currently limited to a virtual machine setup, which requires a jailbreak and a hypervisor, making it impractical for most users.
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Running macOS on an iPad requires a jailbreak and a hypervisor, which are not available on modern iPads.
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The process involves transplanting macOS frameworks into iOS binaries and writing shims for missing APIs.
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The speaker discusses the challenges of finding compatible iPads, such as the M1 iPad Pro, M1 iPad Air, and M2 iPad Pro, which cannot be running anything newer than iPadOS 16.3.1.
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Finding these iPads requires buying new-old-stock, which can be expensive and difficult to verify.
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The potential risks include security vulnerabilities and performance issues.
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The speaker notes that instructions run directly on the M2 chip, which can lead to performance drops of up to 50% in multi-core tasks.
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There are exactly three iPads that can do this at all. The M1 iPad Pro, the M1 iPad Air, and the M2 iPad Pro.
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The software version's too new, so that's um, $703 down the drain, I guess.
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We're going to be running two operating systems at once. This is not a dual-boot scenario. macOS runs inside of iPadOS, so for anything remotely resembling decent performance, we're really going to want 16GB of RAM, which is only available on the 1TB and 2TB storage models.
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Jailbreaks are becoming so incredibly rare because root is no longer the end-all be-all.
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The Virtual Mac devs, they transplanted all that stuff. They ripped the frameworks out of the macOS shared cache, they re-stamped them into iOS binaries, and then they wrote shims for every API that the iPad lacks.
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The speaker notes that while running macOS on an iPad is a cool experience, it is inherently limited and may not be the best move for hybridizing the two operating systems.
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The speaker believes that Apple's current approach is also the wrong move.
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The speaker argues that allowing certain Mac apps to run as iPad apps would not require changing the iPad and would still allow it to be a 'perfect Candy Crush machine for Grandma'.
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Allowing certain Mac apps to run as iPad apps would provide access to Mac-class foundations while maintaining the iPad's simplicity and the App Store experience.
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Running macOS on an iPad is currently limited to a virtual machine setup, which requires a jailbreak and a hypervisor, making it impractical for most users.
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participating in iPadOS multitasking and drag-and-drop and everything else. Make it as compatible as you can, but underneath, give those Mac apps access to the Mac-class foundations that iPadOS still deliberately withholds: proper virtual memory behavior, less restrictive process management, broader file system and peripheral access, desktop-class frameworks and SDKs, background and extension services, and all of the other low-level capabilities that make it so that the same hardware, sometimes,
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simply cannot do on iPad. This is what iPad power users want, and the best part is it doesn't need to change the iPad at all. It would still be the perfect Candy Crush machine for Grandma. The App Store stays the same. This is just a little extra for us Mac weirdos that want it.
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I know you can do it, John. John, um, sorry. That's a little, a little too soon. Mr. Ternus,
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Even the way the VM installs is really clever. It's technically a system restore. The virtual Mac boots into DFU and then RestoreOS and the top-level macOS gets written to it exactly as if it were being an IPSW flashed on a bricked MacBook.
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The speaker suggests that Apple should allow certain Mac apps to run natively on iPadOS, providing access to Mac-class foundations while keeping the iPad's simplicity intact.
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