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Hey experts, I'm having a heck of a time getting started and need a little help.
I installed the client from bitcoin.org and it's working as expected but from my reading I've decided to join a pool. I have 3 new Macs and an Ubuntu server that I would like to use. Deepbit looks like the only pool option right now so I'm going to focus on it.

1. Does a MacBook Pro have a GPU that can be used for this? It has a NVIDA Gforce GT330M.

2. Is there a step by step guide for setting this up on my Mac, even for just CPU? If not I'd be happy to help create and host it.

3. I'm having a hard time figuring out what client I need to use and where to get it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

I got puddin pop's rpcminer source and compiled that.  You might need some experience with unix/linux, compiling and building, maybe even some code tweaking to get it to work. 

For OS X I am running jgarzik's CPU miner under wine and Diablo's GPU miner works well out of the box. I ran into various errors trying to compile the other miners with OS X.

Thanks guys!
The Diablo miner works pretty well. Strange that my MBP's 330M gets about 1800khps and my MB's 320M gets 5200khps. Any idea what the cheaper one is doing so much better?

Does the rpcminer author provice binaries?

Can the bitcoin.org client act as a miner? I see that the conf file can have username/password added to it.

Thanks again for the help!!

That is strange. I get 7500-7800 khash/sec with the 330M in my MBP. I am running a version I downloaded in early February, but I don't recall using any strange options or having to install anything. I use "DiabloMiner-OSX.sh -u user -p password -o mining.bitcoin.cz -r 8332" with slush's pool.

Yes, you can use the default client as a CPU miner and also add the hashes from the Diablo's miner using the server mode and the conf file as you saw. Just point the "-o" to localhost or to your ip address.

Happy mining.

A GUI miner for Mac would be nice.

Patches-
OK, now I'm getting about 7000k like you and figured out why it was low before. If I run the BC CPU app then start Diablo I only get about 2000k. Even if I kill BC Diablo never climbs. I have to reboot and start Diablo and never start the BC client and then it gets 7000k.
Did you find the same thing?
Odd thing is that this isn't a problem on the MB with the 320.

Strange.

Thanks for the info!

No, I don't seem to have the same problem. I upgraded to the latest DiabloMiner (as per slush's request) and had it humming along at about 7000k. I stopped it, and then started generating bitcoins on the official client (v0.3.19). I then restarted the DiabloMiner and was getting about the same khash/sec with the DiabloMiner as before.

I didn't run the test for very long, but my quick attempt wasn't able to reproduce what you are seeing.
 

Hmmm. Darn strange then! I'll have to keep looking...

THanks!

I've got DiabloMiner running, but I can't get it to connect to my local BitCoin app. How do you get BitCoin.app to listen for rpc? Default out of the box doesn't seem to work.

Easy-run Mac application packaged (http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=8994.0) variants of DiabloMiner and RPCminer now available. Double-clickable app icon and step-by-step configuration for the n00bs amongst us.