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Repurposing a 10-Year-Old MacBook

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This is my old MacBook Mid 2009. It was sitting in the closet for so long I thought I could invent some purpose and use it before it finally dies. Looks like latest macOS version don’t even support this device so I thought maybe I could use it as a learning tool for Ubuntu.

Since SSDs are so cheap these days I just decided to keep the old macOS drive as backup and install Ubuntu on one of these babies:

I think around £18 is a small price to pay for a brand new SSD so went with it.

Installing Ubuntu

  1. Download the ISO here

  2. Burn the ISO to a USB Drive. Instead of installing extra software I followed this guide: Making a Kali Bootable USB Drive. It’s for Kali Linux but this bit works for burning any Linux distro.

  1. For the rest follow the steps here starting with Step 9

And after the installation this is what my MacBook looks like:

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