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Ubuntu 12.04 on MBPro, Early 2011, options

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I have a 2.2 GHz i7, 4GB MacBook Pro 8.3, AMD Radeon HD 6750M 1024 MB, Early 2011.
As far as I see I have two options, running Ubuntu on this hardware:

VMWare/Virtualbox and Ubuntu in a VM, I already ordered a 16G RAM upgrade for this.

Wipe OSX and go Ubuntu native, with 16G RAM, yay !

I'm kinda leaning towards option 2 as I tend to spend 90% of my time in dev VM's at work anyway. All my other machines at home, and most at work are Ubuntu/Linux as well. I have a Mac mini on standby for the odd Itunes backup/sync. If I don't have to keep OSX around, I would like to get rid of it altogether.

Ubuntu support on Mac hardware seems to be a hit and miss affair as far as I can tell. Does anyone have good success running a recent version of Ubuntu on this hardware ?

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answered 2 Years ago otatorm · Accepted Answer

Please see this document

I currently run Ubuntu on my MBP. It works quite well. First I resided the OS X partition to as small as I could using Disk Utility. This took a very long time. Then I installed refit. Then booted and installed Ubuntu 12.04. I used the free space on the drive to put the Linux partition.

A few tips.

Use BIOS mode, or it won't work.

Don't completely remove OS X. Your going to need it. (EFI updates etc.)

Flush your NVRAM and PMU after you install Linux. Linux doesn't use it and it helps clear some settings OS X sets that can cause issues (like keyboard light levels).