MacBook Pro and Ubuntu.

[Seth]

Thanks for all the replies, guys. I think that I will do what has been said
and just download VirtualBox and run Ubuntu there. I need Windows for school
anyway so I think I will install it in Boot Camp instead. Thanks for the
help.


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On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Steven Susbauer <stupendoussteve at me.com>wrote:

>
> On Nov 7, 2009, at 6:47 AM, Chris Jones wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 7 Nov 2009, at 1:47am, John Appleseed wrote:
> >
> >> So, I just ordered a refurbished 15" MacBook Pro from Apple, and I
> >> was
> >> wondering if Ubuntu works fine under Boot Camp? Has anyone had any
> >> problems? The laptop doesn't arrive until Monday or Tuesday, so I
> >> have
> >> a little bit of time to decide if I want to try  it or not.
> >
> > When I got my macbook Pro, about a year ago now, I thought I would
> > eventually do the same. However, first I tried putting ubuntu into a
> > Virtual machine, just as an experiment, and that was worked very well
> > such that I never needed use BootCamp. The advantage of using a VM is
> > of course yo don't need to dual boot, which is very nice. Of course,
> > there is a small overhead to running in a VM, the biggest being your
> > machine needs enough ram. But if you have enough, and I would say 4G
> > giving 2G to the VM is a good balance, then I would give this a try.
> > Dual booting is very yesterday ;)
> >
> > I know this isn't really an answer to your question, but I thought it
> > might interest you if you hadn't thought of using a VM...
>
> It may be worth asking on ##mac on Freenode, a member by the name of
> "branes" has suggested against running Linux in boot camp due to some
> issue it has with, I believe, voltage control. I am not very familiar
> with the issue or what problems it may cause, and have not tried
> running a distro in boot camp myself.
>
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