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It’s long been the dream of some iPad power users to ditch iPadOS and run macOS instead.
The just-released UTM SE emulator raised the tantalizing possibility that you might be able to. After all, the desktop version of the emulator allows you to do just that.
However, thanks to limitations in iOS and iPadOS, you can’t run modern operating systems like macOS — or even older versions of Mac OS X.
You can, however, run Mac OS 9, plus Windows XP, Windows 7 or even Windows 95.
Plus, you can run all kinds of Linux distributions — even new ones like Ubuntu or Debian.
So if you want to lock up your iPhone or iPad with the blue screen of death, here’s exactly how to do it. (Note: Setting it up can be a little tricky.)
Also in today’s newsletter:
It’s day two of the Amazon Prime Day event and we’ve updated our list of the best deals on Apple gear, like Beats Studio Pro at 51% off ($169.99 instead of $349.99). There are lots of prices at or near all-time lows.
We also have Prime Day guides to the best deals on multi-device chargers (including this absurdly cheap one, which I just purchased), external monitors, plus Bluetti’s highly rated power stations and solar generators.
Need a new security camera? Here are some of the best security cams, video doorbells and other types of cameras you can connect to your iPhone.
Today is World Emoji Day — yay, hooray, woo hoo! — and there’s an Apple connection.
And today is the day in Apple history when the iMac G4 got a giant 17-inch screen. I wanted one of these so bad. Alas, too poor at the time. Even though it’s the goofiest-looking computer ever made, I still like it.
— Leander Kahney, EIC.
A message from Reolink
A message from the Cult of Mac Deals team
A message from Bluetti
Tweets of the day
I cannot believe that it has taken me 17 years to realize that the galaxy in the background of the Mac OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard intro video is an abstract Apple logo 🤯
— Parker Ortolani (@ParkerOrtolani)
3:37 PM • Jul 17, 2024
TIL: there are more transistors in the AirPods Pro than in the CPU of a MacBook Pro from 2010
One is a professional laptop, the other earphones running on a battery weighing about 1 gram
Moore's Law's one hell of a thing
— Flo Crivello (@Altimor)
3:00 AM • Jul 17, 2024
The new control center is great if you customize it
— Max Weinbach (@MaxWinebach)
3:38 PM • Jul 16, 2024
Apple watches don’t work on tattoos????
— non aesthetic things (@PicturesFoIder)
12:15 PM • Jul 16, 2024
Wallpaper of the day
One more thing ...
On vacation recently I was reading this book by [physicist and Nobel laureate] Richard Feynmann. He had cancer, you know. In this book he was describing one of his last operations before he died. The doctor said to him, “Look, Richard, I'm not sure you're going to make it.” And Feynmann made the doctor promise that if it became clear he wasn't going to survive, to take away the anesthetic. Do you know why? Feynmann said, “I want to feel what it's like to turn off.” That's a good way to put yourself in the present -- to look at what's affecting you right now and be curious about it even if it's bad.
Today’s poll
What do you think of the iMac G4 design? |
Results from yesterday’s poll: Will you be buying Apple gear during Amazon's Prime Day?
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