iPad Pro No MacOS on M1 iPad Pro attempts?

[chevyboy60013]

Are you sure the file system is fundamentally different? Is it not APFS in both cases? Granted, the files app and Finder work slightly different and iPadOS is app centered compared to MacOS document centered.

iPadOS is also touch based where macOS is not.

 

[Zest28]

I run Windows and Mac OS on my iPad Pro all the time, it is nothing new really.

 

[JPack]

Running macOS - meaning the OS itself - on an iPad isn’t ever going to happen, not until they’re merged down the road. A more reasonable ask is running macOS apps on the iPad. That’s what we really want, right? It should be entirely possible since iPadOS is a fork of macOS. The opposite is already possible, so I imagine it’s a trivial matter to make it work.

Agreed. I think what many people still don’t understand is Apple sells a complete recommended solution with their prescribed hardware and software. It’s the same reason why Apple doesn’t have a touchscreen notebook or let Apple TV run macOS - they don’t believe it’s optimal.

 

[wonderings]

Apple does not want you to do this as it would complete kill off their base model laptops. iPads with the M1 are plenty powerful enough to run a full Mac OS. It might not be great at heavy apps, but at the price point of an iPad you would not buy it for heavy pro graphical use. This would be a great browser, email, word processing laptop replacement at a great price point, especially being able to connect to an external screen. Again Apple I am sure guards against this heavily.

 

[HDFan]

I run Windows and Mac OS on my iPad Pro all the time,

Microsoft Windows as the iPad OS?

 

[sparksd]

Microsoft Windows as the iPad OS?

This has popped up before - it's a remote login to other devices, not running natively. e.g., Jump Desktop, RDP, etc.

 

[Isamilis]

How come none of these cool hackers were able to get MacOS installed on a M1 iPad Pro yet?

Wouldn’t it be easy now that it’s the same CPU architecture?

I think will be difficult. It’s trying to port closed system (MacOS) into closed architecture (iPad). How would the driver, how to know the interface details - especially the target architecture (iPad) is proprietary. Best effort, probably is porting open source system (i.e. Linux) to iPad.

 

[iPadified]

iPadOS is also touch based where macOS is not.

Touch could be disabled in MacOS and only input allowed would be mouse and keyboard. We talk about a hack here and not a product.

 

[MajorFubar]

I reckon for every scenario you or I can imagine, at least someone in that 2.6 trillion dollar company has actually tried it. I'd be willing to bet my right nut there are hacked-together M1 or even M2-series iPads somewhere in that big round doughnut running MacOS.

 

[Slartibart]

How come none of these cool hackers were able to get MacOS installed on a M1 iPad Pro yet?

Wouldn’t it be easy now that it’s the same CPU architecture?

After quite some searching, I was able to successfully put MacOS X 10.1 on my 11” iPP.

I mean, it’s not fast and basically nothing really works, but of course that’s a PPC version on Apple Silicon.

Later I can try newer versions and report - if the OP is interested?

Or someone else tries this - I mean, you have to have some history with the development of MacOS (X) - but it wasn’t that hard to acchieve. 😇

Proof:

 

[gpat]

If Apple themselves wanted to do it, could they do it easily and quickly?

They certainly have prototype M1 iPads running MacOS in their labs.

 

[seek3r]

They certainly have prototype M1 iPads running MacOS in their labs.

Probably not even prototypes, it's not like Apple needs to hack their own bootloader or signing keys, 100% guarantee Apple has current production iPads running MacOS in their labs for test purposes

 

[Digitalguy]

Probably not even prototypes, it's not like Apple needs to hack their own bootloader or signing keys, 100% guarantee Apple has current production iPads running MacOS in their labs for test purposes

Actually back in 2020 already some leakers said Apple had put MacOS into an iPhone connected to un external monitor and that is was running surprisingly well. Apple can do whatever they want. For hackers instead it's extremely difficult, much harder than some people think here based on jailbreaks....