…in beta,

But still released!

I haven’t had a chance to try it yet, but I’m MORE than happy to finally ditch Transmission.

EDIT: I’ve had a chance to play around with it… it’s definitely nowhere near as featured as the Windows version, but it’s definitely a good start.  It’s much faster starting up than Transmission, and feels very speedy.  Unfortunately a majority of the private trackers I go to still only support Transmission for Mac clients, but uTorrent for Mac DOES support encryption.

My biggest gripe is with the lack of a pop up or side drawer upon opening a new torrent file to select which files within a torrent you would like to download without starting the torrent immediately.  The mac version comes close, with offering an option to not have torrents start after opening, and it DOES at least give the option to pick and choose which files you would like in a torrent…you just have to open and load the torrent first, then set which ever files you don’t want to “Skip” then manually start the torrent within the application.

As I said though, definitely a terrific start.

http://mac.utorrent.com/beta/

Tags: mac, p2p, torrent

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