MacBook Air (M1, 2020) + XMRig + Parallels Desktop Mining

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MacBook Air (M1, 2020) + XMRig + Parallels Desktop Mining

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It works, but not impressive. Ran XMRig as administrator. Used Parallels Gaming Performance mode which default uses only 4/8 cores. CPU mining only.

198.5 H/s

Model Name: MacBook Air
Model Identifier: MacBookAir10,1
Chip: Apple M1
Total Number of Cores: 8 (4 performance and 4 efficiency)
Memory: 16 GB
Type: GPU
Bus: Built-In
Total Number of Cores: 8 GPU Cores
Macbook Air M1 Parallels Desktop Crypto Mining
Macbook Air M1 Parallels Desktop Crypto Mining (255.29 KiB) Viewed 21213 times

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 * LIBS         libuv/1.42.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1l hwloc/2.5.0
 * HUGE PAGES   unavailable
 * 1GB PAGES    unavailable
 * CPU          Virtual CPU @ 3.20GHz (4) 64-bit AES
                L2:48.0 MB L3:0.0 MB 4C/4T NUMA:1
 * MEMORY       2.5/8.0 GB (31%)
 * MOTHERBOARD  Parallels ARM Virtual Machine - Parallels ARM Virtual Platform
 * DONATE       1%
 * ASSEMBLY     auto:none
 * POOL #1      donate.v2.xmrig.com:3333 algo auto
 * COMMANDS     hashrate, pause, resume, results, connection
 * OPENCL       disabled
 * CUDA         disabled
[2021-12-18 11:02:34.709]  net      use pool donate.v2.xmrig.com:3333  199.247.27.41
[2021-12-18 11:02:34.709]  net      new job from donate.v2.xmrig.com:3333 diff 1000K algo rx/0 height 2517665 (23 tx)
[2021-12-18 11:02:34.709]  cpu      use argon2 implementation SSSE3
[2021-12-18 11:02:34.709]  randomx  init dataset algo rx/0 (4 threads) seed 8db658a238826c1c...
[2021-12-18 11:02:34.709]  randomx  allocated 2336 MB (2080+256) huge pages 0% 0/1168 +JIT (0 ms)
[2021-12-18 11:02:53.696]  net      new job from donate.v2.xmrig.com:3333 diff 1000K algo rx/0 height 2517665 (91 tx)
[2021-12-18 11:02:59.779]  randomx  dataset ready (25063 ms)
[2021-12-18 11:02:59.779]  cpu      use profile  rx  (4 threads) scratchpad 2048 KB
[2021-12-18 11:02:59.795]  cpu      READY threads 4/4 (4) huge pages 0% 0/4 memory 8192 KB (10 ms)
[2021-12-18 11:03:01.503]  net      new job from donate.v2.xmrig.com:3333 diff 1000K algo rx/0 height 2517665 (94 tx)
[2021-12-18 11:03:38.762]  net      new job from donate.v2.xmrig.com:3333 diff 1000K algo rx/0 height 2517666 (18 tx)
[2021-12-18 11:04:01.061]  miner    speed 10s/60s/15m 181.1 179.0 n/a H/s max 194.0 H/s
[2021-12-18 11:05:01.321]  net      new job from donate.v2.xmrig.com:3333 diff 1000K algo rx/0 height 2517666 (56 tx)
[2021-12-18 11:05:02.305]  miner    speed 10s/60s/15m 185.6 191.1 n/a H/s max 198.5 H/s
[2021-12-18 11:05:11.479]  net      new job from donate.v2.xmrig.com:3333 diff 1000K algo rx/0 height 2517667 (9 tx)
[2021-12-18 11:05:20.635]  net      new job from donate.v2.xmrig.com:3333 diff 1000K algo rx/0 height 2517668 (5 tx)
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