 This is a going to be a quick video Kind of messy just want to point something out real quick that I found odd This is a MacBook Pro from the mid 2009. It's my sister's she's having issues with it running real slow And the hard drive was full up So I decided I told her I'd clear out back up her photos and clear them out the operating system was running so slow I decided to boot into Linux. So Obviously I can boot off a CD. No problem I pop a CD in or DVD in and when I boot I hold down the C key it boots to the CD Running off a CDs rather slow It's still faster than the operating system that's on the Mac already, but it was still kind of slow starting stuff up So I want to do a you know USB boot which supposedly you can do and I have two flash drives here One that plugged in there right now and this one this they're both Linux Mint 17.3 one I made is a Fat partition and I used unit booting to create it which seems to be the way tutorials say to do it And then I also have this one where I just deed over the ISO. So it's it's an ISO format So I boot the computer I hold down option should give me all my bootable Drives does not see either of these flash drives Well, I accidentally left one of these flash drives in and Put in the CD or the DVD to boot again so I Put that in I'll power down the computer doesn't matter which one of the flash drives. I have whether it's the ISO or the fat Partition turn that on when I hear the tone. I Press C Now if the CD is not in there if DVD is not in there I can hold down C with either of these USB drives in there nothing happens, but with the Linux Mint 17.3 DVD in there It takes a minute. I pressed that You can hear it spinning up the disc. It's booting the disc But somewhere along the boot process when Linux Mint is booting It stops looking at the DVD and then boots off the USB drive doesn't matter again, which won't either one of these it does Which I found very interesting. I can't boot either of these USB drives Without the DVD but the DVD isn't designed to boot the USB drive the DVD is designed to boot itself So here we go. It's it's gonna start up. It's spinning up. It's gonna say, you know, I'm actually starting 10 seconds I just click start Linux Mint, but it must be the CD when it's booting it must rescan the drives for the image to boot from But you know the boot loader here is running in memory now and it finds the USB drive even though I'm not telling it to it finds it over booting from the DVD So once I get in there It's running a lot smoother a lot faster because I'm booting off the USB drive rather than DVD and I can eject the drive No problem the the CD drive obviously if I pull out the flash drive it starts going haywire So I just wanted to do a quick video on this. I gotta bring this laptop back now I you don't have much time to to play with it on that But I just found that really interesting because the disc is not supposed to do that You should be able to boot just off the USB drive or off a CD But the CD or DVD is booting the USB drives for me Kind of like plot Linux would but it's not designed to do that Has anyone else experienced this does anyone else know how I can boot these USB drives without the DVD on a on a Mac computer the again, this is a MacBook Pro from 2009 when I looked up the model number on it it said under You know preferences or whatever. It's just said mid 2009. I guess they don't have like real You know model numbers. It's just MacBook Pro from whatever time You know everything works out of the box. I just have to enable the wireless drivers They're they're already here on links that are disabled by default Yeah, the only thing I can think of and again, I didn't really read through all the The you know step-by-step for creating the USB drives for a Mac machine But they said that it should be a fat and partition and you can use unit boot in which this drive is made out of The only thing I can think is maybe You know the headers for the partition it's set to boot, but maybe it needs to be different for a Mac I didn't have time to look that up Comment below if you know for sure because I would love to have one of these flash drives available in case I have to do This again, I don't have to have the CD Yeah, I just found it weird thought I make a quick video on it. Thanks for watching. I hope you have a great day One more question, you know, because I'm not that familiar With everything on a Mac. First of all, I want to show you forgot to show you this I can go into here and I can eject the CD-ROM drive And you'll see everything keeps running. I can open up other programs like firefox even though I'm not connected to the internet So just wanted to show you that but also want to ask you is there any way to eject a CD-ROM from a MacBook Pro other than This button here because this button here only seems to work once you're inside the the Apple operating system Obviously in Linux, I can go and click and eject but there's no, you know, a regular Regular laptop has a button you click as soon as the power is on you can eject it, you know So I have a problem with this is like turn off this computer I go off I forgot to take the CD out and I've got to boot all the way into an operating system just to eject the CD Am I right in thinking that that's just like most things on an Apple computer just extremely poor design Or is there a way to eject the CD without having to boot into the operating system first because I can press this all All day long during the boot process even into the macOS and until I get to the login screen I can't eject the drive. So Just asking because I don't know just seems like a very poor design to me But maybe there's something I don't know And if you know, let me know in the comments below. Thanks again for watching also real quick another thing even though I haven't installed the proprietary drivers that are available for the The video card in here comp is seems to work great. I got scaling of windows I've got my wobbly windows and you know the 3d cube spinning everything seems to be working great And even though this machine is you know, seven years old at this point with only two gigs of RAM Everything works great out of the box, you know again The only thing I have to do is enable the Wi-Fi drivers, but they are available already on Linux Mint 17.3 You