I have done that with a Windows machine I have at home so far, but to be able to do it when I’m at a customers place would be a nice bonus. And of course, I need to be able to test websites in Internet Explorer as well. So I need more than these 10GB, probably around 40GB. It’s going to be nice to be able to test those reports myself. Sometimes I get reports that things doesn’t work in Safari, and I quite often gets bug reports on Plone4ArtistsCalendar together with iCal. However, I want to be able to boot into OS X so that I can test things. Quite a significant space waster just to keep the firmware updated, admittedly. Reportedly it should be possible to have a partition size of 10-15 GB for this. If you want OS X only to update the firmware, you can reinstall OS X on your hard disk skipping everything that is optional, and thus use up as little space as possible. There are several FAQs out there to do this, so I won’t touch on that. This means that most people who use Linux as the main OS will dual boot. Earlier ones have for example increased the battery life significantly. OS X is the only OS you can use when updating the firmware of the MacBook, and firmware updates on MacBooks can be very useful.
Oh, and it’s for whining and ranting as well.įirstly, you need OS X for your MacBook. This post is to explain some things about how MacBooks boot, and how to install Ubuntu on a MacBook without having OS X on it as well. Why is a later post but in short I feel that Ubuntu is a better OS if you are a develope, at least a Python/Plone developer like me.
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