Ubuntu 12.04 on MBPro, Early 2011, options
- by sthysel
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 ?
Thanks