Guess what… It's possible! Although, unfortunately, hardware support seems to be particularly poor for many Macintosh machines. Please update the appropriate compatibility list (laptops, desktops) after you try. To find your model, open System Profiler (Applications>Utilities) and find the Model Identifier on the first page under Hardware Overview. It will look something like Macbook5,1

Note from Hexxeh: While I'd love to get more support added for Mac, the particular model I own doesn't [boot via PLoP], and I haven't yet managed to find a way to get it to boot. As soon as I do, I'll look at adding support. Thankfully Mac hardware is pretty consistent in terms of laptops, so once I can get it working on mine, it should be working on lots of others.

Recently, Derek Scott from Cracker Creek Design has produced a guide which is rumored to bring greater success in the Mac arena (specifically for Intel Core 2 Duo machines).

Derek says: So far my method has only been tested on a Late 2006 MacBook(MacBook 2,1) but should technically work on any MacBook which uses Intel GMA graphics. Currently I'm testing a way to get MacBook Pros w/ NVIDIA GPUs working too.

This approach, while simpler, has a much lower success rate. It uses a middle man, PLoP Boot Manager, to first tell the mac to boot from USB. The first method describes an quick and easy way to get going. However, if you're looking for a more permanent solution and you have Ubuntu, check out method number 2.

1. Download PLoP
2. Unarchive the .zip
3. Open Disk Utility
4. Insert blank disk
5. Command+B to Burn
6. Navigate to the location of our newly unarchieved folder, select the file plpbt.iso
7. Click Burn

1. Insert the PLoP CD into the drive
2. Insert your Chrome USB
3. Restart your mac, hold down Alt
4. Select the CD
5. Select USB
6. Enjoy!

Please note that this method requires that you install Ubuntu using Bootcamp. Furthermore, this method assumes you are using GRUB2 (you've installed Ubuntu 9.10 “clean” (not as an upgrade) or if you've updated to GRUB2 manually)

1. Boot up into Ubuntu
2. Download PLoP and unzip
3. Place plpbt.bin in /boot/

1. Open terminal
2. Execute sudo chmod 777 /etc/grub.d/40_custom
3. Execute gedit /etc/grub.d/40_custom
4. In gedit, add the following code to the very end of the document where X is your hard drive reference number:

menuentry "PLoP Boot Manager" {
  set root=(hd0,X)
  linux16 /boot/plpbt.bin
}

1. Save your work and close gedit
2. Execute sudo update-grub2

1. Restart your mac and hold alt
2. Select your Ubuntu install
3. Hold shift to initialize GRUB
4. Select the PLoP from the GRUB menu
5. Select USB from PLoP menu
6. Enjoy