64Bit Intel Core2 CPU with 2.26 Ghz with 2 cores.webcam, SD card reader and 3.5 mm headphone/mic input.The technical specifications are quite solid and it doesn’t need to hide behind current consumer devices: There she is again, the planned obsolescence 1. Too valuable to be thrown away, technically perfectly okay, but unfortunately no longer supported by Apple. An old mid-2009 Macbook Pro 13" has been hanging around in the corner for years. I was asked if I had a spare notebook available shortly. Right! A broken laptop.Įxactly such a call for help came to me this afternoon from my own circle of friends. If you run into any issues during the installation, leave a comment and I will try to help.What is the worst-case scenario right before Christmas during a Corona Lockdown? Let’s leave zombie apocalypses, too little toilet paper or slow internet connections aside for a moment. With the 20.04.2 update of Ubuntu, everything works out of the box with the Mid 2012 version of the Mac Book. Next, I ran sudo apt update & sudo apt upgrade -y to make sure I had all the updates to my laptop. This will clear the black screen and error when booting. I found out that Mac’s EFI wants a signed OS. After installation, I noticed a weird error about MOK and EFI.
I managed to install Ubuntu, and everything went smoothly. I burned Ubuntu 20.04.2 on a DVD (From ) and booted up the mac by inserting the DVD in the drive and holding down the “Option” key while booting up and I select the first EFI Partition to boot from by pressing the Up arrow after selecting it. So, the installation was pretty straight forward.
(I’m actually writing this blog from the laptop running Ubuntu.) This proved to be harder than I expected, but if you keep reading, I’ll tell you how I finally did it. I was going to update it to Mac OS 11, but found out that it didn’t support it, so I figured I would try to revive life to it by installing Ubuntu on it. I got my girlfriend a new Macbook Pro M1 for Hanukkah and she gave me her old one (It’s a Macbook Pro Mid 2012, or 14,1). Been a while and I have a new blog entry so that I don’t forget how to do this if I ever have to do it again.
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