Yeah, the best torrent client will get the much needed Mac love.
There was a talk that µTorrent will be ported to OS X ’soon’ and this was sweet news as most of the OS X users are using either Azurues or Transmission. Vuze is a bloat (so use v.2.5.0.4) and Transmission doesn’t excite me (doesn’t offer as much feature & control as Azureus does and I don’t like the UI).
The Mac version was made public earlier than the developers wanted. An internal alpha version was leaked to torrent trackers. This is a cocoa app and looks like any other Mac app, not the Windows client ported to Mac. So this assures that the developers are serious about the Mac version.
The official release should be out any time now. Signup at µTorrent website to be notified as soon as it’s released.
My torrent client story. Initially I was using BitTornado (still a nice client, many private tracker recommend it). Then switched to µTorrent lured by the features and control. Switched to Azurues with the advent of my Mac (occasionally using µTorrent with Crossover). It seems I’ll be back with my favourite client soon.
I took the client for a spin to see if it was a half asses effort. And with new episodes of Heroes, Prison Break, How I Met your Mother and The Big Bang Theory scorching the trackers, what better way to test it? 
Check out my review at Smoking Apples. The bottom line is it’s buggy and missing basic some features. Not at all a bad for a ‘first’ release and should only get better. It wouldn’t recommend it, as yet, though it’s as functional as an internal alpha release should be.
Can’t wait for the stable release to hit and reinstating µTorrent as my default torrent client.
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First things first, Thanks for updating your blog!
Now, me waiting for the uTorrent for Mac final version too but I don’t get your equation with Transmission. Every Mac user I know swears by Transmission except for you. Can you explain this phenomenon ??
Azeem, thanks for stopping by and commenting.
Some time back when I was using Transmission, I had noted down: “13 reasons why Transmission sucks”. Some of the points should be invalid now but nevertheless you can see they release updates on a regular basis (which is good), but it also tells they haven’t developed a solid product yet . You hardly see updates for µTorrent or Azurues (dunno abt Vuze but 2.5.0.4 has almost no issues).
I’m going to get to the bottom of this issue and post my findings soon. Watch out for “The battle of the best torrent client for OS X” post soon.
return of grudgy
non macs like me still with vuze as few of utorrent versions still having issues with various trackers
rahul -
I never left (or will leave) this place.
Not that all versions of µTorrent is banned. So why Vuze if you prefer µTorrent?
@Ashwin
I once had this problem with Transmission (older version) where Transmission resumed only a part of a very big download. Its quick updates have totally eliminated that problem now and since then Transmission works smoother. Waiting for your battle of bittorrent clients for Mac, although I don’t see a serious competition to Transmission
I’ll start testing Transmission soon with an open mind. Let’s see if it’s any good.
i am on linux and use transmission . its nice and very simple .
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