Comments on: uTorrent’s Mac Client Leaked

By: uTorrent Releases Long-Awaited Mac Version at IDTorrent Blog

uTorrent Releases Long-Awaited Mac Version at IDTorrent Blog — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 18:09:49 +0000

[...] months ago, an early Alpha release of the Mac version had leaked to the public, the official release, however, has some [...]

By: uTorrent Releases Long-Awaited Mac Version | InstantIdiocy

uTorrent Releases Long-Awaited Mac Version | InstantIdiocy — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 05:40:04 +0000

[...] a port of its Windows counterpart. A few months ago, an early Alpha release of the Mac version had leaked to the public, the official release, however, has some significant improvements and is much more [...]

By: uTorrent Releases Long-Awaited Mac Version | TorrentFreak

uTorrent Releases Long-Awaited Mac Version | TorrentFreak — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:58:07 +0000

By: Hits Singapore » Blog Archive » uTorrent For Mac Makes Its Way to The Pirate Bay

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:16:26 +0000

[...] to TorrentFreak, BitTorrent’s product development VP Simon Morris said the leaked alpha version is not for public [...]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 11:28:19 +0000

I’m sorry but it took 46 meaningless comments for someone to finally speak the word of God?

all of you GTFO, you have no place in this community.

By: densets

densets — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:26:12 +0000

wheres the graph!!!! ZOMG THERE IS NO GRAPH…

its the same as any other client without the ubber leet graph.

By: Anon.

Anon. — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 19:41:40 +0000

http://forum.transmissionbt.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=6023

RIp off of Transmission.

By: mfg

mfg — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 14:17:24 +0000

and why is this better than transmission? is it because its closed source?

By: Dizavin

Dizavin — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 11:14:16 +0000

hrmm.. that looks a lot like how Transmission is layed out. I would like to see the final release and see how the two are different.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:17:56 +0000

Only problem i found with this is that when you go to remove the torrent it deletes all your data you just downloaded so just as a heads up make sure to install everything before deleting the torrent

By: XiNiTHAOUS

XiNiTHAOUS — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:31:08 +0000

I’m a Linux user and uTorrent is still my preferred client… even if I do have to run it through Wine :)

By: moloch

moloch — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:19:55 +0000

Looks good, works nice, still obvious alpha though. Finally a good client for Mac OS X! Hope Beta and RC’s come out soon!

By: web

web — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:57:01 +0000

It may “look better” than the Windoze build but at 1.26 MB this is total bloatware.

By: Johan Bach

Johan Bach — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 04:10:36 +0000

Ah, so after a couple years, it’s still behind?

By: #75 is wrong

#75 is wrong — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 03:17:37 +0000

Johan Bach, you are obviously uninformed about Transmission or haven’t used it in a very long time. You can set the max peers, it has ratio initiated stopping, it has scheduling. Aside from lacking DHT it’s very comparable to uTorrent now.

By: Azureus

Azureus — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:09:36 +0000

I don’t see why you just wouldn’t use Azureus? Seems to be the best client by far. Yep it’s a little bit of a hog but if you have 2gb of ram and a core2duo you’re hardly going to notice it.

By: Gill Bates

Gill Bates — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:42:02 +0000

love the file menu item ‘Crash me’

By: Gill Bates

Gill Bates — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:39:54 +0000

been waiting for this, looks over simplified though – shame, think I’ll stick with Azureus

By: alpha

alpha — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:28:16 +0000

>>>>>>>>alpha

By: xdefeatsy

xdefeatsy — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:12:03 +0000

When I was using Windows, uTorrent was definitely my favorite client. I’ve been using a Mac now for almost a year and have gone back and forth between Vuze (classic mode) and Transmission.

I personally like my Mac. I’ll admit, there are certain aspects of Windows that I wish Mac could catch up with. Unfortunately there is no perfect operating system that has everything anyone could ever want.

I am excited for this Mac release of uTorrent. Transmission (for the most part) is a nice client, but it still lacks some more advanced features, that and they seem to have buggy releases. I currently use Vuze in classic mode to save resources and the bloaty-crap interface. In terms of Mac clients, I think it’s fair to say that it is best all-around.

I think I’ll skip on the leaked Alpha and sign-up on their e-mail list, waiting patiently for the stable release

By: Fladmus

Fladmus — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:42:41 +0000

And you say that looks BETTER than it’s Windows counterpart?… Mmmkay.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:15:52 +0000

SO WHEN ITS FINISHED WILL IT BE BETTER THAN TRANSMISSION?

By: Fred

Fred — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:22:13 +0000

If you want to use an application that plays “Big Daddy” and controls when you can update a tracker, what your upload/dload ratio should be, refuses to tell people how to downgrade if they don’t like the upgrade and is generally built by a bunch of “we know better” techheads with zero people skills, then go ahead and download it. Personally I like to make my own decisions on how I run my apps.

By: Johan Bach

Johan Bach — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:10:40 +0000

I can’t wait for this to be finally released. One thing closed source has that open doesn’t is money. That means the developers are going to be dedicated. And no, you stupid idiots, uTorrent didn’t steal any Transmission code. The look maybe, but not code. Transmission is years behind. No DHT. No RSS. No adaptive bandwidth limits. No max peers. No ratio initiated stopping. No scheduling.

By: seethe42

seethe42 — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:12:44 +0000

Why do so many Windows users seem to feel threatened by an application being developed for an OS they don’t use? If you don’t use a Mac this doesn’t affect you in any way, shape or form. Opening up an application’s use to more users can only be seen as a good thing.

By: NastyBedazzler

NastyBedazzler — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:30:54 +0000

I tried it and it looks/runs like shit. What are people ranting and raving about this new client?

I have a Mac and I have Parallels running Windows specifically for the Windows uTorrent… I thought this might save me from having to run Windows anymore but apparently not.

By: ch3v4li3r

ch3v4li3r — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:29:47 +0000

If you don’t like mac, no bother come here to claim all users are gay… come on ! You don’t need it ? Fine, we are happy that Utorrent is coming on mac computer.

And since Transmission does the same freaking thing than utorrent, I don’t see why it should be treat like shit… get a life please ;)

By: up me bum

up me bum — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:01:29 +0000

rad

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:54:52 +0000

Transmission without DHT is fine, you get the peers through PEX anyhow.

By: nu1mlock

nu1mlock — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:24:47 +0000

This is great news!
I’ve tried it for the last couple of hours and it looks great! I belive we really need this one.

I just love the view you use when every torrent is just a small column. Transmission doesn’t have that (not that small anyway), and you can’t really add groups for Transmission the way you can in uTorrent.

It is, however, clearly an early alpha-build, as the build has frozen one too many times the short period I’ve been using it.

I wouldn’t recommend using it as you primary client yet, as it still has too many bugs and is still missing out on some important features (as auto-add from dir, auto-delete when added and more).

It looks very promising though!

By: PEDOPHILE

PEDOPHILE — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:21:36 +0000

this site sucks soo bad

By: WaferMouse

WaferMouse — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:39:29 +0000

Colin: Waa waa waa. Cowboy up and buy a new computer. Or maybe ask mommy to.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:43:20 +0000

i own a mac. I’m better than you windows and linux users! snort snort !

oh please

By: Brona

Brona — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:05:46 +0000

Looks good. However the Mac has had it’s own light weight, heavy feature bittorent client for a while now, in the form of Transmission. The only thing Utorrent has which Transmission hasn’t is support for RSS. One can argue the need yet-another-bittorrent-client on the Mac. The need was significantly larger some years ago before Transmission picked up the speed on it’s releases. But uTorrent allways has it’s fans and it will please many that the Mac has an official client that doesn’t suck dog turds.

When it comes to the design of uTorrent, the one-window-design of uTorrent is very slick. Transmission also has a very nice and minimalistic UI, aber it’s ‘Inspector’ as it’s own window which buggs many (me included). Both clients support encryption, quick look and bandwidth managing. Though Transmission has a feature where it scans a folder for torrent files and automaticly opens them. Good for users of Safari which (unlike Firefox) doesn’t give you the option to automaticly open files with associated app.

uTorrent is in alpha and it shows in the speeds you get from torrents. For now it seems Transmission is still the client of choice for Mac (and Gnome) users. It’s also open source unlike uTorrent which is allways a plus in my book.

By: banderas

banderas — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:28:35 +0000

utorrent just used transmission’s source code :)
http://mattro.org/451

By: PEDOPHILE

PEDOPHILE — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:25:28 +0000

omg who cares

this site only wants to make $$ of the ad$

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:05:26 +0000

What a disgusting display of ignorant whining. Looking forward to the actual release.

By: Meocross

Meocross — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:15:01 +0000

did it seriously have to take them so long to the point that it got leaked? being too slow and letting stale data hang in the air for too long can have its downfalls.

By: macuser

macuser — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:46:07 +0000

Well, judging on the screenshot it looks great in my opinion. It looks like a native mac application, well it probably IS a native mac application. Competition and diversity is always good. Although I’m totally happy with Transmission, I’m thrilled to try out utorrent for mac.

If you need a reliable, feature-complete bittorrent client for Mac OS X, take Transmission, it looks good and has the right set of features. Especially if you’re on a lot of different private trackers, Transmissions grouping feature is very helpful (every torrent can belong to a group, and every group has it’s own color, and you can watch torrents by groups, like “ah, I’m upping with 50kb/s to wfm right now and with 21kb/s to wcd”). It’s free and open source too! :-)

By: MacCuntyMacFunty

MacCuntyMacFunty — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:30:34 +0000

Xtorrent is just a GUI over Transmissions Open Source Code. The wanker.

Looking forward to this as Azuerus is enough the resource hog.

I don’t think Transmission uses DHT (unless this has changed).

By: I'm stuck on OS X and I use uTorrent

I'm stuck on OS X and I use uTorrent — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:26:48 +0000

Use http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=28869 you lazy people >< seriously.
1) It’s alpha 2) It’s private alpha not even on-par with build 6104 of 1.8 which was released to the public 9 months before 1.8 was released.

By: Tekz

Tekz — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:26:24 +0000

I still don’t understand why people think the Mac interface theme is so fucking sexy.

I think it’s ugly, and I hate every moment that I have to use iTunes because it’s so FUCKING slow on my PC, compared to other media library programs.

By: iamsoozie

iamsoozie — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:15:37 +0000

about time!!

By: naderslim

naderslim — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:13:09 +0000

is it me or do those screens look like an exact replica of xtorrent by Dave Watanabe?? I realize they are both using native os x widgets and such, but uTorrent couldn’t be a little different?

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:02:25 +0000

I am staying with Transmission, I’d use Transmission on Windows if there’s a binary (hint: they’re actually working on it!). Transmission is Open Source, unlike uTorrent.

By: Sweetness

Sweetness — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 06:53:15 +0000

Outstanding! A good torrent client for MAC. Its about time!

Jiff
http://www.anonymize.us.tc

By: Sir Digby Chicken Ceaser

Sir Digby Chicken Ceaser — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:43:35 +0000

Looks nice and simple. Hopefully they take some of the cues of this version and apply them to the windows version.

By: Troll

Troll — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 04:48:56 +0000

FEED ME

MAC IS SHIT

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 04:42:34 +0000

@ Hyram H

No it is not. Run strings on it, it contains the same strings as utorrent and the code looks similar. Project name is NuTorrent?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 04:40:47 +0000

Cross between Bitrocket, transmission and xtorrent. Intel only?? Gay