Now the lightweight power and performance of µTorrent is available for Apple Mac.
This is beta software, and may contain serious bugs. We think it’s stable enough to share and hope your feedback will help us improve it.
Please share your feedback on our forums.
More info and download link for µTorrent Mac βeta (ver. 0.90, Mac OS X 10.5 Intel) here.
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They would have to bring something more than what Transmission already offers.
I agree with Mystical. Transmission why use anything else.
Transmission…
‘Nuff said!
I was really excited for this to be released. then i tried transmission. All of a sudden i no longer care about utorrent.
Three cheers for Transmission!!!
*jumps in to join the Transmission lovefest*
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Transmission is very reliable, with lots of good features that don’t get in your way, but are there if you need them. And its UI fits beautifully with OS X. Hard to think of a better torrent app for the Mac.
The µTorrent folks have plenty of catching up to do – and more power to ’em! The better they make their Mac version, the more good Mac apps we have to select from, which is always a good thing.
Since nobody’s posted linky for Transmission yet: http://www.transmissionbt.com/
Transmission, Tomato, Acquisition …
I use Transmission on my Mac atm but I primarily use uTorrent and nothing beats it… it’s like Transmission and Vuse mixed together and gives me all the power I need out of a torrent program without taking over half of my processor… I can’t wait for it 😀
You seriously telling me I can go back to 2002 on my new MacBook! Wow! Can’t wait to be part of the “swarm!” Maybe I can be lucky enough to pick up a new Limewire, Kazaa or Napster client as well!?! Hopefully I’ll finally be able to dump this Transmission program that’s just been working perfectly?
You know it’s worth saying that that Mr. Balmer sure does attract the brightest of the bunch to his platforms…I hope he is able to “lead” forever!
Why are you all loving transmission? Xtorrent is better as it allows you to search for torrents old napster style and is a torrent manager as well.
I agree with Tim. Xtorrent is by far the best torrent application on the Mac and beats everything else hands down even on Windows !
http://www.xtorrent.com
cant even queue on utorrent for mac .. can queue on utorrent for pc .. will stick with transmission ..
i was hoping the mac version of utorrent will be able to queue torrent files…
Xtorrent has nice search, and I started out with XTorrent.
However with more then a dozen or so torrents in the repos. it becomes an unstable CPU hog. It can hang itself up over nothing.
I have yet to see Transmission do that. It’s way more reliable!
Hey guys, thanks for all the recommendations for Transmission. I’m trying it out now, and so far I’m liking it better than Vuse (Azureus). Too early to tell on just one torrent but so far the d/l speed is better than anything Vuse ever did, and the U/I is way less overwhelming.
Nice to have something to help me get HD copies of content I have purchased that will play on our church data projector for the youth group.
Only kidding, for now…
Transmission is the best:
1. Download Torrent File from your favourite site.
2. Launch Transmission and if you have set it to watch download folder, torrent will automatically start to download.
3. Wait for download to finish.
4. Enjoy your warez!
Can’t be better than that.
I’ve been doing speed tests with both transmission and uTorrent and so far uTorrent is about 15% faster.
I agree with most people when they say just stick with transmission but…
Transmission isn’t the most tracker friendly app out there. (well it’s getting there now but at first Transmission was being banned from a lot of trackers). But I think it’s growing pains are over.
How DARE you! More choice is not better. There should only be ONE application for each genre. That’s how Steve likes it.
That’s… that’s… microsoftian!
Well, now with more testing on more torrents I can say that longer test has shown Transmission to catch up and surpass uTorrent in speed.
I will now say with confidence that Transmission is still king but….
uTorrent is still a beta and Transmission was very ruff in it’s early stages as well, so we shall see.
Well how about favorite torrent sites?? Isohunt use to be it for me, but I seem to find BTJunkie even better! Any other sweet options??? Please list
I like Transmission, especially for its clean elegance. But I always come back to XTorrent, which has a nice UI as well. Yes, it seems to get wonky over time, but dang I like its search feature. Although I used Azureus for quite a while, I really dislike it. Am I missing something about Transmission? Can it find torrents?
P.S. Does anyone know of a torrent app that castrates Comcast?
I use Vuze 4.0. What makes Transmission so much better?
My regular torrent sites:
thepiratebay.org
mininova.org
Something you should know, read the entire article.
http://www.macworld.com/article/137094/2008/11/safari_safe_browsing.html
I’m getting 400 kbs or more download speed. OMFG!
I don’t know. I dropped transmission like a rock when it couldn’t handle my 20+ downloads at a time. Some of the torrents came in unfinished even though they said they were 100%. Been waiting for the power of uTorrent to come to the mac for forever. Until they get out of beta I’ll stick with Azureus/Vuze
Transmission looks good, but the integrated searching with Xtorrent makes it my program of choice.
Yay, Xtorrent!
Just to make sure I understand it correctly, we are discussing here the tools that vast majority of posters are using to obtain copyright-protected content without authorisation, i.e. illegally?
(a good hint was that piratebay.org link…)
There is lots of content available on the internet that is not copy-protected and is obtained legally by these programs.
Don’t lump us all in together, thank you.
“I dropped transmission like a rock when it couldn’t handle my 20+ downloads at a time.”
If you are trying to download 20 things at once, you will never get good speed.
Normal rule of thumb with a torrent is to have no more than 3 active at any one time. This way you will download things faster.
There is a site that explains this, but I can’t be bothered to look it up.