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how is performance?
by MuffinFlavored 4y ago
how is performance?
- Gigachad 4y agoIf you run an ARM OS in it, the performance is great. If you run an x86 one it’s unusable.
- easton 4y agoThat still needs the Virtualization entitlement on iOS which I thought you couldn’t get if you’re outside Apple, unless you’re jailbroken and can work around the signing requirement. Otherwise UTM runs emulating the OS and is slow as Christmas.
- Gigachad 4y agoAh you are probably right, I remembered that being gated behind something but I assumed it was the altstore which was the thing you had to do for full virtualisation.
- MuffinFlavored 4y ago> If you run an ARM OS in it Only arm64/aarch64 operating systems I know are GNU/Linux or Mac OS X. I doubt the iPad is strong enough to run a usable Mac OS X virtual machine, and I don't see a ton of value running either a Linux distribution as CLI ("headless") or with a GUI on an iPad as an app in a window?
- Gigachad 4y agoEven the base tier ipad is more powerful than a raspberry pi which is more than enough for a gui linux. The ipad pro contains the same chip as the macbooks and comes with 8gb/16gb ram options. It's more powerful than the average Windows laptop.
- bogwog 4y agoI use an app called "iSH" which gives you an x86 Alpine Linux distro and a shell you can play around with. It's pretty useful whenever I need to ssh into something, and if you're patient you can actually do some programming on it with vim or whatever text editor you want. Even clang works!
- cvak 4y agoiPads definitely has enough CPU power for ARM macos, limiting factor is the RAM.