The first issue I had to overcome with the installation was that Ubuntu did not properly detect my MacBook’s native resolution. Which I thought wasn’t too big of a deal. I went ‘System - Preferences - Screen Resolution’ to find that my wide screen ratio (1280×800) was not available.

So I did a quick search and found that in order to support the various resolutions in Linux you need to install what is called 915resolution. I also found a nice tutorial on how to set it up. It was a pretty painless fix and then after a quick restart my laptop came up in the proper resolution.

This is the instructions that I used.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=351647