MacBookAir7,2 (13-inch, Early 2015)

[ryonakano]

elementary OS 9 Early Access works great on MacBook Air Early 2015.

Works

• Keyboard, including
  • Volume keys
  • Keyboard backlight key
  • Media (previous, play/pause, next)
    • Confirmed with Epiphany 51.0 and YouTube
• Touchpad
  • Multitouch works too
• Display
  • Night Light works too
• Bluetooth
  • Confirmed paring and listening to music works with AirPods Pro (2nd generation, USB type-C)
• All ports, including:
  • SD card reader
    • Confirmed R/W in a FAT32 formatted SDHC card (KIOXIA SD-KU032G)
  • USB ports (both left and right side ports)
    • Confirmed R/W in a ext4 formatted USB 3.0 flash drive (I-O DATA YUM2-16G/K)
• Suspend and resume

Does not work

None

Quirks

• Wifi does not work out of the box. But it is easy to fix. Use an Ethernet cable or another method to access the internet, and install the broadcom-sta-dkms driver from apt. You will likely need to restart the machine after the installation in order to be able to see the available wifi networks.
• Camera The Facetime Camera driver is missing and does not work out of the box. It can be enabled by using patjak's driver, which has an installation guide on github and further guidance on AskUbuntu.

Configuration

• Processor: i5–5250U 4 × 1.60 GHz (up to 2.70 GHz), 3 MB cache, 15 W TDP
• OS: elementary OS 9 Early Access
• Graphics: Intel® HD Graphics 6000
• Memory: 8 GB LPDDR3 at 1600 MHz
• Storage: 256 GB M.2 NVMe SSD
• Wireless: BCM4360