Run ANY OS on iPad or iPhone! 

‘That’s pretty slow, not the speed of a usable device’. Me: looks at my laptop I use everyday. Me: it’s sort of fine...

"Run ANY OS" Runs XP

Please do a follow up with the M1 iPads when you receive them!

If memory is very tight, keep in mind that 32-bit applications and OSes use a *lot* less memory (both storage and RAM) than 64 bit. I bet this is half the reason you got XP running pretty well. I'm actually impressed that x86 emulation runs that well. Always go native architecture if you can. Would love to see ARM Windows running with this.

The problem with the mouse is a current issue regarding touchscreen. When creating a first person 3D game, the cursor is warped to the center of the screen and the motion is based on the distance from the center each frame. However, a touchscreen cannot warp the mouse position, because the user presses the screen to activate it.

"Run any os on iPad or iPhone" Estimated battery life left: 15 minutes

“Run any os” I’ll run iPad os on my iPad

You gotta redo this video with the 16gb m1 ipad pro this time. Please man.

“I run a large business of over 500 employees” “Also I’m retired”

Snazz: *Running Android 4.0 on an Ipad* Apple: wait, that's illegal

"you certainly couldn't do audio or video production over remote desktop" I worked in a design agency that had such awful computers that I used to do most work remotely in my computer at home

20:57 Could've just clicked Continue again.

All this proves is that macOS running on a iPad pro would be great. Honestly I am posting this from a Surface 8 Pro and while its raw CPU power is nothing compared to the Apple chips it is WAY more functional then iPad. It really shows how much iOS holds the iPad back these days.

21:45 You know you could’ve just hit Command + Q to skip all of this.

Honestly never expected seeing Windows XP on an iPad Pro

I think you should re-do this with the M1 iPad Pro with 16GB RAM. I think that would make for an incredible video. Please try macOS (Big Sur! Native ARM) and also Windows ARM on it (see my previous comment). I think the M1 iPad Pro would have a much better time even emulating x86 because of the M1, but I'd like to see ARM versions as well

I can't tell which is more impressive The fact he's running Windows on iPad OS, or the fact he's running XP with a 15 GB storage volume

i love the way you could clearly see how much fun quinn was having when he started half-life

Half Life running was the coolest thing Ive seen in a long while.

Fun fact: If you have iOS 14-15.1.1 on an M1 iPad, you can use Trollstore to run Windows 10 ARM as an actual virtual machine with good performance (Trollstore lets you get hypervisor access through arbitrary entitlements)

“I can tap that no problem” - Quinn Nelson

16:38 you just have to lower the mouse sensitivity in the game settings. Modern mice have a much higher DPI settings and make the mice move faster for less distance in order to get accross high res screens. This game was meant for mice at sub 2000dpi

2050: Today we will play gta v on my $100 phone

"you would never use editing software on a remote desktop, gross." "So here I'm going to use a maximum of 2GB of RAM" One of these is more limiting than the other...

Ok, wow, this video is really interesting. Not only it shows how amazing it would be to run a full fledged OS such as MacOS on something the size of an iPad, but it also shows that there is a “community” of people actually interested in something like this. Personally, as a musician, I am able to do everything on my iPad, which I originally bought “just” to read sheet music, and then discovered that it was a fully capable machine that could almost replace my laptop entirely. Sadly, it can’t do that yet because there just isn’t a good enough app for music writing on iPadOS (something like Finale or even Musescore), and that’s the ONLY reason I’m still rocking my old 2012 non-Retina MacBook Pro, which is plenty fast enough now that I’ve upgraded it with a modern SSD an 16 GBs of RAM. But let me tell you: the MOMENT Apple releases either some kind of Mac with a touch screen, or MacOS for the iPad... count me in! Awesome video as alwas Quinn, keep up the outstanding work!

Running Windows on an IPan is really Snazzy!

20:58 Those activation servers ARE still online, Leopard just sees your install as iffy as if it were an early hackintosh so some features like that just won't work if you're not on real hardware. Apple is VERY good at keeping their legacy updates and servers online.

That moment when Mac OS was asking for your address and you didn't bother to read the non default option to continue reminded me of my grandparents lol

The emulated Windows XP is faster than my school's XP machines, probably combined together. Oh boy, so much progress in so little time, wonderful.

This is actually AMAZING so psyched to get Linux and try some other random crap

Your window xp is even faster than my pc. 🤣

I believe the issue with the mouse on half life is the mouse input for some reason is emulating the touchscreen input which is then emulating a mouse input. The weird camera movement is exactly what happens when I play an fps on my laptop and touch the touchscreen.

I can see it now "Apple execs HATE this INCREDIBLE hack!"

I have touchscreen fully working from my MacBook Pro using a dell p2418ht monitor and touch base drivers. Multitouch gestures working also, 5 fingers to swipe through desktops etc. will make a video to detail

Nice one Quinn, this looks like so much fun. On a side note I'm always amazed at how much effort and work goes into something that is just not gonna see a wide user base.

You should do an update video to this with the upcoming m1 chip ipad

You could install Windows XP tablet PC edition so you can use touch support

Apple watching this: Interesting.

Hey, I wanted to see how that Debian goes! At least it's ARM so even if there's no hypervisor it should be faster, right?

Good news ! Utm is now in the app store, but with a SE that means slower edition

"I have this strange feeling that Android was never intended to run on an iPad..." un-huh

Its 2023 ,now windows 11 runs smoothly on ios UTM with virtualization....please make complete video of it with all features working

I felt nostalgic seeing XP and osx leopard. Those were the days

So you chose a whole different thumbnail 😅

I plated with the Android emulator for a while which was based on qemu. It was DOG slow. but if you run in on KVM it is fine. qemu usually has a version for kvm. It uses kernel level virtualizations.

You addressed interesting features especially the UI being workable for MacOS with touchscreen. Currently the best solutions for 2-in-1 are fundamentally SPLITTING FUNCTIONS of tablet and laptop: 1. Native is not possible due to boot-loader locking ie dual-boot is not an option. 2. UTM / iSH is about as close proximation (to date before alt stores launch more openly) to VM so again not 'full solution' though it's possible as above. Offical App Store legislation is against emulation software as main obstacle. This might change in the future with Alt stores as said. 3. Remote Desktop is probably the optimal solution but requires multiple hardware work-around eg desktop/laptop/pi at home to network into and use. Still a very powerful option for solving the 2-in-1 device on Apple products problem and successfully too. Man Mini with iPad seems the perfect combination for cost. Again multiple software solutions exist some of the best seem to be: Screens, Duet, RealVNC to investigate. 4. Cloud PC: Very flexible but costly at present eg MacOS, Win11, Linux (any distro) possible using a variety of solutions.

Try to run macOS that uses arm, I think it will run smoothly, since the mac uses M1 chip too.

This is why I got a Microsoft Surface. A real OG touchpad! :)

In half-life the view turned like crazy. I have the same problem with MCPE on my Android x86 VM. And I know the problem: The game expects the mouse cursor to jump to the center of its screen when it tells it to but the VM program doesn't fully do that thing, so when you move the mouse and it's away from the center it moves away from the center continuously in the program but inside the VM it stays in the middle. That creates this interesting bug.

21:03 There is a "Continue" button next to "Go Back"

I just hope that if Mac OS is overhauled to support a tablet experience it doesn’t turn into a Frankensteins monster of tablet / desktop, like Windows 8 was (and even windows 10, with those stupid start menu squares).

Just download more ram! Dealing with noobs here

This was very cool and entertaining to watch! I'll like to see an arm64 Linux VM performance compared to a laptop or a raspberry pi, it'll make a good video and a good insight to future arm virtualization

Was excited to come across this.. time for M2 iPad revisit??

“Ok! MacOS is-“ Smoke starts coming out of iPad Pro

Everyone was complaining that MacOS features never came to the M1 iPad. If you have one, you can use this mod to get the latest MacOS on there and even use almost all of its sixteen gigabytes of ram. That way, you get MacOS features on the iPad.

Why do you have half life in the thumbnail

Big Sur beta breaks the mail plugin :(

You need to refresh that video with the new Ipad pro M1 with 16 GB of RAM. I winder if it will work with the new Mac OS

I'll be honest with you, I was expecting you to also run some kind of ARM virtualization instead of emulating other architectures. Do you know how hard it is to emulate other CPU architectures? It's ridiculously performance intensive. You should show some ARM Linux distro running on it, I would expect them to run fine and somewhat fast. Also, if you choose SteamOS (this one is probably x86 though) you can even play modern Windows games from the compatibility layer Valve created. I think you should do a lot more on the video. Also, the mouse issue on fullscreen games happens very often on all kinds of VMs, regardless of host operating system, and is a setting you usually have to change on the VM. Many VMs have a "gaming" setting for the mouse that fixes this. Spotlight indeed does make these macOS versions very slow while completing the first indexing.

Windows phone OS?

I love how "you certainly couldn't do audio or video work over remote desktop" ended up becoming a thing you can actually do with technology like parsec and moonlight game streaming

Try increasing the CPU (core) count setting. It seems it was set to 1 for all your VMs.

I would love to see this done with a 16gb m2 iPad pro

Okay let me guess, remote desktop? We'll see :D Edit: local virtualization, i'm pleasantly surprised! Shouldn't have expect anything less of you Quinn :D

I'm not a nostalgic person, but seeing that Windows XP install reminded me of the 10 thousand times I've done it in the past and it was a weird feeling lol I entirely forgot how it was but seeing it made it feel normal! :D

I hope Apple hear you!!! Mac os on an iPad is the best thing, specially for music producer, DJs, Designer ect , you can take the iPad any where and creat something. And it get even better once you introduce the Ipen. Sometimes Inspirations just kicks in and you have the ipad with you.

When you just need to Play Half-Life..

There are already MacBooks out there that have a touchscreen (I think only some MacBook Pros have that...).

15:05 I happen to remember the key. 25 characters embedded in my head, because I always needed to install the game everytime I wanted to play it at my school's lab, which at that time was using DeepFreeze. Gosh, I'm old.

I almost had decided it was a clickbait/Remote Desktop. But still chose to click, it is the first time it was actually something!! May be I try it or don’t but thumbs for giving something real. Man you after all, booted Windows on an iPad!! 🔥

Why does it feel like clickbait 😂 love your vids:)

Oh man I remember that modbook! I wanted it so much when I was 15!

Try and do this on the M1 IPad please. Would be interesting to see the results.

0:29 Holy $h!t I remember almost ordering one of those, just because it looked so cool!

Wathing this after M4 ipad pros were launched. I hope quin could do this again in 2024

What's the point of running macOS on iPad when you've got a mac? Besides, iPad OS is powerful enough for daily use.

Well if you have 6GB you could allocate 4GB without problem, technically up to 4.8GB as that would be 80% of your total that UTM says if you go above that iOS will kill it

"you certainly couldn't do audio or video production over remote desktop" The entire TV and movie post-production industry as of this year disagrees with you. I've been doing that since March and so have most of my colleagues.

15:31 you had it unmuted when Windows XP turned on so we could hear the boot sound

The fact you got most of these OS running on a iPad is impressive ❤️

Great video, even a year later. But that brings up the question: how would it go with the new M1 iPad Pro with 16GB of RAM? (I guess that the VM still could only use 5GB of memory, but that would be better than 2GB)

the Key is 14 times A and I’m feeling nostalgia seeing that HL Icon on XP. Good old Counterstrike 1.5/1.6 LAN Party Summer Nights 15 years ago.

Alt Store... This is the reason why I don't want the macOS to merge into an "iPad" and why I don't see the iPad as a professional device. Apple's insistence in locking down iOS is what I fear spreading to macOS. When that happens I'll move out to Windows or Linux.

windows xp was so pretty

ONE can run mac OS on the iPad if someone with the new apple DTK ports it (decompile/recompile). It would probably have to be installed in DFU mode. Drivers and a few core apps would have to be extracted from iOS and combined with the decompiled apple DTK OS to enable all the hardware support/acceleration. thanks to side car there is already graphics drivers/pen support for the iPad in mac os.

16:29 that also happens when i run minecraft on a vm

On the old half-life game you can download the old counter strike that would be awesome to see. Good Video bro

7:22 could've mentioned how for JB users there's tweaks that do make JetSam less aggressive: you can have an app use way more Ram, but the risk is ios crashing.

Try it with new M1 iPad 16gb ram would be more interesting 🤨

What about run tis same test, but now on m2 ipad? .............. ?

Ok now do it with the m1 ipad

It’s more likely Mac apps for Apple Silicon will come to the App Store and not run full macOS. Or maybe just Catalyst apps will be pushed as the preferred app for iPad/Mac apps.

For those who don't know cydia impactor is also a tool like alt store for windows, I used it a long time ago but don't know how well it works now

18:49 "alright it's successfully booted into the installer" *looks at screen* - Install Failed - Anakin: Liar!

To be honest with all the new updates to windows 10 recently I really have no problem with it

UTM is now on the M1 Mac for virtualisation, a qemu frontend, very polished and intuitive.

(I sent you this via Twitter as well): Loving your latest video exploring touch screen with macOS. You might be interested in grabbing a hackintosh laptop with a built-in touchscreen (e.g. Lenovo T440s, my current daily driver) and using the touch-base multi-touch drivers 😀

Quinn pls revisit this with the 2021 iPad Pro

No, Windows 7 the best Windows there's ever been.