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uTorrent Mac Beta Download

so anyone know what's going on with this?

I've been waiting forever! It seams like the project is dead...I haven't heard from them in over a year.
 
Firon @ forum.utorrent.com said:
2008-07-04 13:21:58
The reason the port has taken so long now with the new OSX developers is that they first worked on porting the core to POSIX (which itself is not a small task, considering utorrent is pure winapi). Once they had a decent and stable enough core, then they started work on the GUI, though the core was being worked in tandem still.
There's a usable (sorta) UI for the OSX build now and it's making more progress. I can't really give you a real ETA, but we'd love for a public test to happen in say, 2 months or so.
But it could be more than that, I don't really know for sure how long it will take.
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http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=985
 
^ thanks buddy!

only 1.26 MB. screenie with the obligatory torrent. looks like Transmission/Leopard Mail/Leopard Finder.

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Bah, I'll take an open source alternative any day. Transmission has almost all of the features uTorrent has and new features are added at a constant rate. Plus it's UI is perfect for OsX.
 
richthomas said:
^ thanks buddy!

only 1.26 MB. screenie with the obligatory torrent. looks like Transmission/Leopard Mail/Leopard Finder.

http://picimg.com/uploads/02c90571cb063ca6c1c5e219d10fc8a1.png[*/IMG][/QUOTE]
Looks great! Can't wait for a public release :)
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uTorrent for mac

its official, we will soon have a native utorrent.

from utorrent.com:

"Sign up and we'll let you know the moment you can start to enjoy the lightweight performance of µTorrent on your Mac. It won't be long now ..."

http://mac.utorrent.com/
 
They've had that message up for a while now. As said above though, a private alpha version has been leaked. It's not very 'uTorrent-like' yet though - infact it's almost a complete ripoff of Transmission.
 
At last! I can finally get rid of Transmission. uTorrent is one of the few applications that simply did not have a Mac alternative that was any good.
 
This leaked uTorrent sends the cpu racing to 100%. No good on a Macbook. Last I heard, the coder for the Mac version left the project and further development was shelved. That was quite a while back.

No idea if this leaked alpha was the state of development then or represents a restart of the project. Either way, less excited since Transmission has caught up and is easy on resources.
 
acxz said:
They've had that message up for a while now. As said above though, a private alpha version has been leaked. It's not very 'uTorrent-like' yet though - infact it's almost a complete ripoff of Transmission.
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So would you say it's worth checking that out, if it's a complete ripoff?!?


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I have it...

sorry, stupid post, i deleted it. (images are still there though, what?)
 

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Now check the Preferences pane and tell me it doesn't remind you of Transmission

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And my favourite feature 😛

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^ its in alpha. some of the features proposed in the final version arent even there. uTorrent has said to not even use it yet.

i would stick to Transmission now.
 
richthomas said:
^ its in alpha. some of the features proposed in the final version arent even there. uTorrent has said to not even use it yet.

i would stick to Transmission now.
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Me too but i don't understand why people are waiting so fanatically uTorrent....
 
Well, using the same torrent on both Transmission and µTorrent, I got much higher DLs on µTorrent. Did the same torrent in 30 min compared to transmissions 4 hours. Im pretty sure I have both set up properly (each has a port and all other connection settings are default).

That said, µTorrent does NOT limit uploads. I set it at 30kB/s and it kept going up to 60kB/s!! I was wondering why Safari was lagging so much.

Im sticking with Transmission, at least for now.
 
gusious said:
And why is that? What more does it offer from Transmission?
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The one thing that stands out for me is that it will find/connect to more seeds/peers in a given torrent than any other client I have every used on any OS plus it just downloads much faster than others while doing this as well...
 
MacUser2525 said:
The one thing that stands out for me is that it will find/connect to more seeds/peers in a given torrent than any other client I have every used on any OS plus it just downloads much faster than others while doing this as well...
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....so it's worth the wait then? and if there is a Windows version, will the MS come out first than the OSX??
 
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