- Tiny11 has successfully installed on an iPad Air M2
- The Livian version of Windows 11 works on Apple’s tablet through emulation
- However, do not expect anything remotely close to soft performance levels
In the ongoing search to have software (or games, generally DOOM) that runs on unexpected devices, has become a new turn as someone has managed to get Windows 11 run on an iPad Air.
Windows Central noticed the feat achieved through the use of Tiny11, a light version of Windows 11 that settled on an iPad Air with M2 chip.
NTDEV, the Tiny11 developer, was behind this effort, and used the ARM64 variant of its Slimline version in Windows 11. The Microsoft operating system was executed in the iPad air using emulation (UTM with JIT, explains the developer: a PC emulator, in summary).
So is Windows 11 impressive on an iPad Air? No, in a word. The developer is waiting for more than a minute and a half for the desk to appear, and the characteristics of Windows 11 (task administrator, configurations) and the applications are loaded quite slowly, but they work.
The illustrative YouTube clip below gives you a good idea what to expect: it is far from a soft experience, but it is still a little better than the developer anticipated.
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This incarnation retraceded from Windows 11 certainly works best on an iPad Air than on an iPhone 15 Pro, something that NTDEV demonstrated in the past (the start of the operating system took 20 minutes on a smartphone).
However, as noted from the beginning, sometimes achievements in the technological world are simply trying to marvel that something can be done at all, instead of having some practical value.
You will not want to use Windows 11 on an iPad (or in fact iPhone) in this way, anyway, in the same way that you will not want to play with fatality in a toothbrush even though possible (would you do it?).
It also underlines the naivety of Tiny11, the version without swelling in Windows 11, which has existed for a couple of years. If you need a more simplified version of the new Microsoft operating system, Tiny11 certainly offers (taking into account some safety -related warnings).
There are all kinds of shots of this application, including a ridiculously thin version of Tiny11 (which comes in a 100 MB pen weight). And, of course, the ARM64 turn used in this demonstration of ipad air, which we have seen previously installed in Raspberry Pi.
