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Title: Does ASIC USB Thingy Work with Macs? Post by: bitcoinfrenzy on June 29, 2012, 05:56:04 PM Was thinking of ordering it but not sure if it works with Macs. Anyone know? Thanks in advance.
Title: Re: Does ASIC USB Thingy Work with Macs? Post by: Nachtwind on June 29, 2012, 06:23:26 PM That USB ASIC thingy will work on Linux, Windows, Mac and even Amiga OS.. i have heard rumors that there will be a connector for the Nintendo 3DSi... Just ask the BFL team.. a company that can build such a device can program the software for virtually every OS arround...
Truth to be told: Just wait IF it will ever be built and sold.. and if it can live up to the expectations. 1600MH/W is extremely optimistic... but i suppose the software - or compatible software will run sooner or later on mac as well.. Title: Re: Does ASIC USB Thingy Work with Macs? Post by: grue on July 02, 2012, 03:51:23 PM if you can afford a mac and a $1000 asic, you can surely afford a $200 netbook running windows/linux.
Title: Re: Does ASIC USB Thingy Work with Macs? Post by: swissmate on July 02, 2012, 03:54:21 PM if you can afford a mac and a $1000 asic, you can surely afford a $200 netbook running windows/linux. THIS +1Title: Re: Does ASIC USB Thingy Work with Macs? Post by: billington.mark on July 02, 2012, 05:05:11 PM Install Linux on your mac, simples.
Title: Re: Does ASIC USB Thingy Work with Macs? Post by: P_Shep on July 02, 2012, 11:19:19 PM if you can afford a mac and a $1000 asic, you can surely afford a $200 netbook running windows/linux. The lowest cost asic is priced at $150. Title: Re: Does ASIC USB Thingy Work with Macs? Post by: Bitcoin Oz on July 02, 2012, 11:25:26 PM I hope you can mine on an xbox :D
Title: Re: Does ASIC USB Thingy Work with Macs? Post by: swissmate on July 03, 2012, 06:17:36 PM I hope you can mine on an xbox :D No, but you can transform the old xbox into a pc. You just need a new HDD. Title: Re: Does ASIC USB Thingy Work with Macs? Post by: film2240 on July 10, 2012, 10:48:38 AM Was thinking of ordering it but not sure if it works with Macs. Anyone know? Thanks in advance. OP that was one of my initial questions about the BFL Jalapeno (maybe?) but I could simply run win 7 via VMware fusion on my mac and simply 'mount' the ASIC in VMware fusion while retain the use of my mac.You can mount physical hardware into VMware fusion as well which can be a real time saver.Just make sure you have enough RAM for running 2 OSes simultaneously (4GB or more RAM should cover it). Just another option for a mac user. Title: Re: Does ASIC USB Thingy Work with Macs? Post by: Luceo on July 10, 2012, 11:11:14 AM Was thinking of ordering it but not sure if it works with Macs. Anyone know? Thanks in advance. I can see no reason why it wouldn't. Most of the miners are open-source so you could compile on Mac. Title: Re: Does ASIC USB Thingy Work with Macs? Post by: casascius on July 12, 2012, 05:13:15 AM Parallels Desktop (virtualization solution for Mac) allows plugging of USB devices into VM's. Any time you insert a USB device, if you haven't saved a selection in advance, a popup asks you what VM you want to get the device (be it the host Mac or any of the VM's). As long as the OS running in the VM can drive the device, it will work without needing a Mac driver.
Linux runs really well under Parallels on a Mac, including full GPU support, screen resizing, shared clipboard between Linux/Mac and other Windows VM's etc. Title: Re: Does ASIC USB Thingy Work with Macs? Post by: Ferroh on July 12, 2012, 11:46:26 AM if you can afford a mac and a $1000 asic, you can surely afford a $200 netbook running windows/linux. THIS +1Yeah it costs $150, not $1000. Title: Re: Does ASIC USB Thingy Work with Macs? Post by: Phraust on July 12, 2012, 12:37:03 PM I think it'll depend on the interface. If it's similar to the Singles, they'll use a serial usb connection, so you'll only need to install the drivers (for singles, they are here (http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/VCP.htm)).
Also mentioned was Parallels, which I use to run windows 7 for the easyminer software that Butterfly Labs provides. Works pretty well, though more than three at a time makes for issues (the firmware uploads can end up corrupted, so I have found it's less stress to do one at a time). I've had success compiling cgminer and bfgminer (and even pooler's cpuminer for litecoin), as well as using the bitminter (http://www.bitminter.com) client, on OSX 10.7.4. Title: Re: Does ASIC USB Thingy Work with Macs? Post by: grue on July 12, 2012, 05:19:22 PM if you can afford a mac and a $1000 asic, you can surely afford a $200 netbook running windows/linux. THIS +1Yeah it costs $150, not $1000. Title: Re: Does ASIC USB Thingy Work with Macs? Post by: P_Shep on July 12, 2012, 10:02:42 PM There are no currently available ASICs.
BFL are the only ones to have an ASIC product identified, priced and pre-orderable. |