A simple Applescript app for creating elementary OS Installer USB drives. It uses dd as a backend. It should work on any version of OS X, although it has only been tested on OS X 10.10.5. The resulting USB drive should boot on newer Macs, as well as PCs.
Only the following Macs are capable of starting up elementary OS/Linux from a USB drive:
- Macbook7,1 (Mid 2010) or newer
- MacBook Pro7,1 (Mid 2010) or newer
- MacBook Air3,2 (Late 2010) or newer
- Mac Mini5,1 (Mid 2011) or newer
- iMac13,1 (Late 2012) or newer
- Mac Pro5,1 (Mid 2010) or newer
Please don't create a bug report if your Mac is below the system requirements. Check out the Mac Linux USB Loader instead.
Click the "Download Zip" link on this page and open the app.
 
(Note: the UI text might differ from shown.)
Most of this comes from Sam Daitzman's elementary thumbdrive creator with a large restructuring of the UI flow, a reduction in UI text, and the removal of the ISO conversion process.
The elementary logo in the icon is from elementary LLC.
This software is provided as is, without any warranty that it'll work.