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The Macbook Air is a laptop in the Apple Macbook Family. Use this tag if you have trouble installing or using Ubuntu on the Macbook Air.

First sold in 2008, the Macbook Air is a line of super-thin laptops that is part of the Macbook Family. It is manufactured and sold by Apple Inc.

The Macbook Air comes with a 11 inch or 13 inch display. It has no built-in Optical Drive, so installing Ubuntu on it requires a USB stick or an external Optical Drive.

More information about installing Ubuntu on a Macbook Air can be found on the Ubuntu Wiki.

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How well does the Macbook Air work with Ubuntu?

I'm thinking of getting a nice laptop [thin like Macbook Air, Actually I'm thinking of getting Macbook Air itself]. Question is, how well it will go with Ubuntu. Being ubuntu user for last 7 years, I cant think of moving away just for great hardware…
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any experience with MacBook Air 5.2?

Our company has purchased a MacBook Air 5.2 (13 inch screen) and we want to run Linux on it, with preference for Ubuntu. My first attempt failed. I prepared a USB stick as boot device following the instructions on…
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Is Ubuntu compatible with the MacBook Air 1,1?

I have failed countless times to install this OS and I have no other means of installing it. I have tried to boot from a USB and it displayed an error saying "isolinux.bin missing or corrupt" and I have ran sudo dd on my usb about 6-8 times now with…
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Set Macbook Air to boot to rfind instead of Grub?

I was following the instructions to install Ubuntu on my Macbook Air and went I to install refit there was a note that refit was no longer maintained so I followed the link to refind (http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/) and got that installed. I have…
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Macbook Air freezes while running Ubuntu 13.10

Ok folks I'm trying to setup my Macbook Air to run Ubuntu 13.10 (note: I normally using Kubuntu but currently running Ubuntu). I have run all of the updates for the system as of this posting. This happens regardless of the application I have open…
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Will Ubuntu be fully supported for Macbook air 2013 Haswell

I am thinking of getting a Macbook Air 2013 with the new Haswell chip and broadcom chip. I am not in a rush to install ubuntu so i can wait. Just curious if ubuntu will be fully suported for this piece of hardware and run smoothly like normal…
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