whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa running Windows on your iPhone or iPad believe
it or not it can be done with the help of a special emulator app called UTM but
how does it work and why the heck would you even want to run Windows on a device
that purports to be a highly optimized marriage between apple hardware and
Apple software other than simply because you can it turns out that some users are
actually getting more out of the Apple silicon processors inside newer iPads by
running Windows than they do running iPad OS the idea is that despite the
fact the M series chips are quite powerful there aren't a whole lot of
officially supported apps that push the processor to its limits however it's
easier to use the processor to its full potential when you can install Windows
and run whatever program you want think image editors or design software the
possibilities for calculator apps alone are endless but prepare yourself for a
shocker Apple didn't want the original version of UTM on the App Store what
they were never super clear with the developer of UTM as to why but it's not
exactly surprising that Apple wouldn't want a competing operating system
running on their own Hardware this means there are currently three flavors of UTM
the base version which isn't available on the App Store and has to be sideloaded UTM HV and UTM SE which you
can get through the App Store but which has some significant limitations the the
good news however is that if you're interested in turning your Apple device
into a Windows machine all three versions of UTM have interesting uses
we'll tell you what they are and how they work right after we thank ODU the
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today with ODU UTM which as we mentioned
can be found on the App Store works like a normal app in that you just tap to
open it tell it to install a new virtual machine and pick which operating system
you'd like to emulate pretty straightforward and it's fast enough to
run retro games for platforms like Doss and other older systems where the games
require a ton of Hardware resources however UTM SE is quite slow when trying
to run anything newer than Windows XP meaning if you need higher performance
you might instead consider the original version of UTM which supports something
called Just in Time execution or jit jit
that isn't some kind of weird soar on your face but is instead a technique for
compiling the process of translating a program's human readable source code
into the machine code your CPU can understand understand typically
compiling is done ahead of time allowing your CPU to quickly execute a program
when you open it up however if you have a Windows program that isn't written for
the ARM architecture that those apple M series chips use it has to be
interpreted in order to work which can be a very slow process and a big part of
the reason why UTM is limited in what it
can do this is where jit comes in jit
works with certain programming languages that can be pre-compiled into an
intermediate code called bite code jit
can then compile this into the correct machine code when you open the program
while jit is slower than running native machine code it's fast enough to run
game emulators in fact there's one called dolphin that can emulate Wii and
GameCube titles that can run on this original version of UTM thanks to jit as
far as Windows goes UTM with jit can run
64-bit versions of Windows up through Windows 7 pretty impressive for an
emulator though newer versions of Windows are too graphically demanding to
run well but if you want a current version of Windows on your device UTM HV
is the addition you want it allows you to run Windows 10 or 11 on ARM natively
meaning there's no messy code interpretation required allowing you to
run these newer Windows versions at full
speed regardless of which UTM version you're going with though you'll want to
keep two things in mind one it can can't support GPU virtualization so you won't
suddenly be able to play current graphically intense titles on your iPad
two you'll need to bring your own copy of Windows which I know none of you
would ever resort to piracy to get your hands on but even though we've spent
this episode talking about running Windows on an Apple device what if you
want to go the other direction and run I don't know macOS on your PC if that
sounds like you then go watch this video next it's a good time going to be so
great