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macOS Catalina can run on iPad Pro via x86 simulation

A video demonstrating the operation of macOS Catalina on the 2020 iPad Pro appeared on YouTube, showing us an interesting technique to combine the two.

macOS Catalina can run on iPad Pro via x86 simulation

It should be pointed out that the macOS Catalina system has not been ported to the iPad’s A12Z processor. Instead, the iPad runs an application called UTM, which uses x86 emulation. In other words, the iPad just pretends that it has an Intel processor, so it can run software compiled for Intel chips.

This is actually nothing new. Anyone with a bit of technical knowledge can use UTM to run Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard (or earlier) on an Apple tablet. The only difference is that the YouTube video released by Yevgen Yakovliev on Wednesday is running macOS Catalina, which was not previously supported by UTM.

It is reported that it takes a full 20 minutes for the iPad to boot into macOS Catalina, but the original author said that after optimization, it now takes about 5 to 7 minutes, but it is also very slow and not very practical. However, the macOS operating system is still running on the iPad Pro. Very interesting.

Some people want a Mac tablet, others want an Apple laptop with a touch screen. These groups all want macOS to run on the iPad. This is not an impossible dream. IT House learned that macOS 11 Big Sur runs on Apple Silicon, as does iPadOS, using M series processors and A series processors, but they are similar enough that it is theoretically possible to transplant Big Sur to iPad. If Apple tablet PCs abandon the A-series chips in the future and switch to M-series chips, this process will become easier.

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