iPad Pro Will MacOS run on future iPad Pro’s?

[jerrah]

Given the WWDC announcement of the developer Mac Mini running on the 2020 iPad Pro SOC, what do you think the odds are that we’ll have the option of installing MacOS on iPad’s in the future?

 

[Digitalguy]

Not happening anytime soon. However... I can see all apps being able to be used on ipad and I can see touchscreen macbook a bit more likely, given the new touch-friendly interface, but I still think Apple will delay this as much as possible...

 

[AutomaticApple]

Given the WWDC announcement of the developer Mac Mini running on the 2020 iPad Pro SOC, what do you think the odds are that we’ll have the option of installing MacOS on iPad’s in the future?

I think that iPadOS sort of acts as a bridge to MacOS.

 

[Precursor]

Given the WWDC announcement of the developer Mac Mini running on the 2020 iPad Pro SOC, what do you think the odds are that we’ll have the option of installing MacOS on iPad’s in the future?

I'd say 100%! But, MacOS then will be "different" compared to the current one

 

[TheRealAlex]

Given the WWDC announcement of the developer Mac Mini running on the 2020 iPad Pro SOC, what do you think the odds are that we’ll have the option of installing MacOS on iPad’s in the future?

100% absolutely NOT maybe after MacBooks and other devices. It will be hard to run x86 emulated software code. Heck the developer kit uses the A12Z CPU with 8GB of RAM. I don’t see an iPad Pro running MacOS until we have 8GB RAM and a A15X CPU at the soonest.

 

[biffuz]

I say it's not gonna happen. The fact the ARM Macs run macOS instead of iPadOS was stunning, the fact that macOS on ARM Macs is not a walled garden is even more stunning, any more stunning and I end up in ICU.

 

[Neodym]

100% absolutely NOT maybe after MacBooks and other devices. It will be hard to run x86 emulated software code. Heck the developer kit uses the A12Z CPU with 8GB of RAM. I don’t see an iPad Pro running MacOS until we have 8GB RAM and a A15X CPU at the soonest.

I do expect some “proof-of-concept” to appear some time in the future. The current-gen iPadPro runs basically off the same hardware as the dev kit (minus 2GB Ram). With some adjustments and without the dev software overhead, an iPP could well be able to run an Arm-based macOS.

 

[chrism_scotland]

100% absolutely NOT maybe after MacBooks and other devices. It will be hard to run x86 emulated software code. Heck the developer kit uses the A12Z CPU with 8GB of RAM. I don’t see an iPad Pro running MacOS until we have 8GB RAM and a A15X CPU at the soonest.

The Mac Mini ARM dev kit is 16GB of RAM isn't it?