[DC LoCo] using ubuntu with boot camp on a mac?

[Ted Smith]

On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 16:06 -0400, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
> On Monday 29 March 2010 10:21:36 am Phil Shapiro wrote:
> >    Just curious if anyone here is using Ubuntu with boot camp on a
> > Mac? I've started dabbling with video editing in Ubuntu and found that
> > virtual solutions, such as VMWare, are not fast enough for video
> > editing.
> > 
> >     Although I love a good tech challenge, setting up Ubuntu with boot
> > camp on a Mac seems pretty involved. It might be easier for me just to
> > buy another SATA laptop hard drive and install Ubuntu onto that.
> > Swapping hard drives on a Macbook takes all of three minutes, I've
> > heard.
> 
> Maybe if you're booting from USB...  I recall one of my friends having to 
> replace his MacBook's hard drive, and that involved prying the darned thing 
> open.  It's the battery that pops out easily.

MacBooks can only boot OS X from USB.

Proprietary software FTW!
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