Believe it or not I’m a Mac user, ok not 100% as I also use a PC 80% of the time for my home and work computers, but the other 20% that I’m on my laptop I tend to use MacOS X… I used to do a lot of bittorrent downloading before I switched to newsgroups, the issue I had though was sometimes I wanted to download things using my laptop and quickly bumped into a nasty thing in the world of the Mac users. Azureus is pretty much the standard freeware bittorrent app and just like on the PC it’s bloated as hell while not quite as bad as it’s windows counterpart. Now before anyone thinks I’m bashing Azureus it’s a great program it’s just way more feature rich than I need when it comes to grabbing torrents without impacting my PC’s performance.
Well amongst the millions of spam emails I got today to my gmail, from the usual “I love you long time” emails, and perhaps the slightly more on target acne treatment products was an email from my old friends at the uTorrent site! You see for those that haven’t used uTorrent on the PC (wait there are still those that don’t use it WTF?!?) it’s an extremely fast and extremely lightweight bittorrent client that works and looks great and clocks in at under 1 MB. It’s just the best bittorrent client on the net, the major draw back was that their wasn’t a native Mac version, I mean people wanted uTorrent on Mac so bad they were running it via emulators (crossover, VMware fusion etc). Well fret not my fellow Mac users the day is upon us. uTorrent has announced that they are ready to beta the native version of uTorrent for MacOSX. As always remember this is a beta so bugs are expected but that’s what they make the forum for… reporting issues… either way bittorrent is now Mac friendly!
Oh ya one little hitch, it’s currently Leopard and Intel only for now but hey it’s also only a beta for now but be happy it’s finally here for the most part!
Source: MacOSX uTorrent Beta
