WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.440 Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Running Windows on your iPhone or iPad? 00:00:05.440 --> 00:00:11.080 Believe it or not, it can be done with the help of a special emulator app called UTM. 00:00:11.080 --> 00:00:14.280 But how does it work? And why the heck would you even want to run Windows 00:00:14.280 --> 00:00:19.920 on a device that purports to be a highly optimized marriage between Apple hardware and Apple software, 00:00:19.920 --> 00:00:25.120 other than simply because you can? It turns out that some users are actually getting more 00:00:25.120 --> 00:00:28.460 out of the Apple Silicon processors inside newer iPads 00:00:28.460 --> 00:00:32.460 by running Windows than they do running iPadOS. 00:00:32.460 --> 00:00:36.700 The idea is that despite the fact the M series chips are quite powerful, 00:00:36.700 --> 00:00:42.060 there aren't a whole lot of officially supported apps that push the processor to its limits. 00:00:42.060 --> 00:00:46.860 However, it's easier to use the processor to its full potential when you can install Windows 00:00:46.860 --> 00:00:52.420 and run whatever program you want. Think image editors or design software. 00:00:52.420 --> 00:00:56.020 The possibilities for calculator apps alone are endless, 00:00:56.020 --> 00:01:02.900 but prepare yourself for a shocker. Apple didn't want the original version of UTM on the App Store. 00:01:02.900 --> 00:01:06.380 What? They were never super clear with the developer of UTM 00:01:06.380 --> 00:01:09.540 as to why, but it's not exactly surprising 00:01:09.540 --> 00:01:12.740 that Apple wouldn't want a competing operating system 00:01:12.740 --> 00:01:17.900 running on their own hardware. This means there are currently three flavors of UTM. 00:01:17.900 --> 00:01:21.780 The base version, which isn't available on the App Store and has to be side loaded. 00:01:21.780 --> 00:01:25.080 UTM HV, which is for jailbroken devices 00:01:25.120 --> 00:01:28.640 and is the most powerful option, and UTM SE, 00:01:28.640 --> 00:01:33.780 which you can get through the App Store, but which has some significant limitations. 00:01:33.780 --> 00:01:38.120 The good news, however, is that if you're interested in turning your Apple device into a Windows machine, 00:01:38.120 --> 00:01:41.720 all three versions of UTM have interesting uses. 00:01:41.720 --> 00:01:45.360 UTM SE, which as we mentioned, can be found on the App Store, 00:01:45.360 --> 00:01:50.440 works like a normal app in that you just tap to open it, tell it to install a new virtual machine 00:01:50.440 --> 00:01:53.480 and pick which operating system you'd like to emulate. 00:01:53.480 --> 00:01:57.800 Pretty straightforward and it's fast enough to run retro games for platforms like DOS 00:01:57.800 --> 00:02:02.080 and other older systems where the games didn't require a ton of hardware resources. 00:02:02.080 --> 00:02:05.760 However, UTM SE is quite slow when trying to run anything 00:02:05.760 --> 00:02:09.960 newer than Windows XP, meaning if you need higher performance, 00:02:09.960 --> 00:02:13.160 you might instead consider the original version of UTM, 00:02:13.160 --> 00:02:16.520 which supports something called just-in-time execution 00:02:16.520 --> 00:02:21.040 or JIT, JIT. That isn't some kind of weird sore on your face, 00:02:21.040 --> 00:02:24.240 but is instead a technique for compiling the process 00:02:24.240 --> 00:02:30.440 of translating a program's human-readable source code into the machine code your CPU can understand. 00:02:30.440 --> 00:02:35.080 Typically, compiling is done ahead of time, allowing your CPU to quickly execute a program 00:02:35.080 --> 00:02:38.320 when you open it up. However, if you have a Windows program 00:02:38.320 --> 00:02:43.000 that isn't written for the ARM architecture that those Apple M-series chips use, 00:02:43.000 --> 00:02:48.080 it has to be interpreted in order to work, which can be a very slow process. 00:02:48.080 --> 00:02:52.680 And a big part of the reason why UTM SE is limited in what it can do. 00:02:52.680 --> 00:02:58.160 This is where JIT comes in. JIT works with certain programming languages 00:02:58.160 --> 00:03:01.440 that can be pre-compiled into an intermediate code 00:03:01.440 --> 00:03:06.680 called byte code. JIT can then compile this into the correct machine code 00:03:06.680 --> 00:03:11.440 when you open the program. While JIT is slower than running native machine code, 00:03:11.440 --> 00:03:15.280 it's fast enough to run game emulators. In fact, there's one called Dolphin 00:03:15.280 --> 00:03:20.080 that can emulate Wii and GameCube titles that can run on this original version of UTM 00:03:20.080 --> 00:03:23.440 thanks to JIT. As far as Windows goes, 00:03:23.440 --> 00:03:27.280 UTM with JIT can run 64-bit versions of Windows 00:03:27.280 --> 00:03:31.360 up through Windows 7. Pretty impressive for an emulator, 00:03:31.360 --> 00:03:35.820 though newer versions of Windows are too graphically demanding to run well. 00:03:35.820 --> 00:03:41.780 But if you want a current version of Windows on your device, UTM HV is the addition you want. 00:03:41.780 --> 00:03:48.800 As we mentioned, you have to jailbreak your device first, but it allows you to run Windows 10 or 11 on ARM natively, 00:03:48.800 --> 00:03:52.080 meaning there's no messy code interpretation required, 00:03:52.080 --> 00:03:56.760 allowing you to run these newer Windows versions at full speed, whoa. 00:03:56.760 --> 00:04:01.760 Regardless of which UTM version you're going with though, you'll want to keep two things in mind. 00:04:01.760 --> 00:04:06.400 One, it can't support GPU virtualization, so you won't suddenly be able to play 00:04:06.400 --> 00:04:10.160 current graphically intense titles on your iPad. 00:04:10.160 --> 00:04:15.920 Two, you'll need to bring your own copy of Windows, which I know none of you would ever resort to piracy 00:04:15.920 --> 00:04:19.240 to get your hands on. But even though we've spent this episode talking 00:04:19.240 --> 00:04:23.480 about running Windows on an Apple device, what if you want to go the other direction 00:04:23.480 --> 00:04:27.680 and run, I don't know, macOS on your PC? 00:04:27.680 --> 00:04:31.240 If that sounds like you, then go watch this video next. 00:04:31.240 --> 00:04:33.560 It's a good time, this is gonna be so great.