For this how-to, we replaced the hard drive on a 15-inch MacBook Pro (non-Retina) from 2012 with a 480GB Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSD from OWC, which costs $579. That works out to about $1.21 per GB.

16 Shares So, I have this MacBook that is approaching four years old, but I find that I’m not really using it these days. Then I had an idea. Why not take this aging MacBook that is probably already on borrowed time given Apple’s strict retirement policies as it pertains to hardware and give it new life with one of my favorite operating systems – Ubuntu Linux.

My goal is to create a new Linux laptop for me to be able to use around my home that I can use easily for both work and play. While I know I won’t do too much gaming on it, I should still be able to do everything I want to do, and that is enough. Then I had another idea.

Why not take this opportunity to show all of you how to do this while I’m at it. Linux is a great way to breathe new life into an aging laptop, and especially an aging Apple laptop. After all, you paid a lot of money for that laptop so you want to be able to use it for as long as you possibly can don’t you?

Today, let’s take a look at how to install Ubuntu on a MacBook Pro so you can see the step by step process for yourself before you start undertaking this type of change on your own. My hope is that you will find this guide helpful and useful to you as you move your Mac to the Linux platform and free it from the walled garden that is Apple’s Mac OS X. What You Will Need Before we get started, you will need a few things to get the job done. Luckily, our needs are pretty basic. So have a look at what you will need and then start gathering it all.

I will walk you through how to get the Ubuntu ISO as part of this guide. • A MacBook Pro (of course) • Internet Connection • Ubuntu ISO • USB Stick with At Least 2 GB of Storage 2. Download Ubuntu You can grab the straight from their site. I would use the 64-bit version of the latest stable release, but you can choose whichever release you prefer.

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Once you have downloaded the ISO, make a note of where it is stored on your hard drive. Build Your Bootable USB Stick While you can create this manually, the easiest way to do it is to install. Rufus allows you to easily create bootable USB sticks with just a few clicks. Using a PC 1. Plug in your USB stick.

Change the label to UBUNTU and make sure the scheme is set to “ MBR partition scheme for BIOS or UEFI”. Click the small CD/Hard Drive icon next to where it says “Create a bootable disk using” and select your Ubuntu ISO that you downloaded. It will then prompt you requesting to download Syslinux. Select “Write in ISO Image mode (Recommended)” and click OK. Click OK to accept that all data on the USB Stick will be destroyed to create a bootable Ubuntu USB stick. When finished, eject your USB stick. Using a Mac If you don’t have a PC handy, you can always use the Mac OS X operating system you currently have installed to do the job.