uTorrent equivalent on Mac OS X?

After only just picking up what torrents are on my Windows notebook I had a search around for a good torrent handling program on Mac OS X but haven't had any luck, any equivalent of uTorrent on Mac?

 

Now granted this article is a little old, but I think it's worth a shot.

How to run uTorrent in Mac OS X

 

no there isn't really an equivalent to uTorrent at all on a Mac, there was talk of a uTorrent for Mac beta floating around but who knows what will happen with that.

I usually recommend Transmission for Mac torrenting.

 

i dont advise you to do torrrent on your lappy coz it will reduce the lifetime of your hard disk drive

 

If you don't mind the cut in features then Transmission is perfect. If you need stuff like DHT then use Deluge.

 

Oh? Is this true? If so I guess I wont enter the world of torrents then I just did some research on it before but didn't see that bit of information

 

Ohh thats true eh? So I guess I am going to stop using my computer altogether because my computer uses the hard disk drive whenever it is being used so I must not use it - NO! INCORRECT! That information is NOT TRUE! Wear and tear on a mechanical part like your heard drive will happen regardless of what you do with your computer unless you run the hard driver at the highest rpm nonstop all the time. Don't be silly. If anything it will have an affect on the software side of your system.

 

I like BitRocket. Its development seems to have stalled, but the version that's available has been working well for the very rare times I need a Torrent.

Oh, and to the poster who said something about Torrents reducing the life of your hard drive...AHAHAHAHAHA!!!!11 You is funneh. Anyone who uses Torrents should be far more concerned about the virus/malware risk than reduced component life expectancy.

 

that is hardly true, your HDD will be accessed almost constantly either way. in fact just booting up your machine is probably using the HDD more intensely that torrenting ever will.

 

Torrenting won't kill your hard drive. Using your hard drive alot will kill the drive. Dropping the drive will also kill it. And repeated extreme cooling and heating of the drive could shorten the life. Transmission for mac is great.

 

For MacOS X I recommend Azureus. I've used it for a while and it works great.

 

Transmission is nice and lightweight, but lacks a number of must-have features uTorrent has. The only fully featured torrent client for Mac to my knowledge is Azureus, although that application is slightly bloated. Then again, if you're on a fast dual core machine with lots of RAM, you will hardly notice Azureus running in the background anyway.

 

i'm sorry for my mistake...i read somewhere on nbr that torrenting shortens the lifetime of a laptop..the person was advised to do torrent on his desktop. maybe it was just bullsh*t

 

I guess it depends on how simple/configurable you want your bittorrent client to be. I use Transmission and Azureus Vuze (Never at the same time).

Transmission is the lightweight one with few options. It works great and has never crashed on me. I have this set as my default.

But every once in a while, I'll use Azureus. I prefer it for huge downloads and its Vuze side for getting high def videos.

I recommend both so... up to you, mate

 

atleast until it causes a kernal panic on your machine when running wirelessly right? ^_^, I can't say I have ever had those issues, mostely because I don't really torrent on my Mac, but Transmission does have most of the important features, it just feels way to imcomplete compared to uTorrent, but it gets the job done.

 

utorrent is the best. you can run it in wine if you want. apparently utorrent supports wine, so that might be the way to go.

wine is not an emulator. it runs utorrent at full speed.

 

wine? i am intrigued, go on... ^_^

 

I prefer Transmission. It is lightweight, pretty, easy to use, stable, and receives regular dot releases.

 

run windows apps from within mac osx natively (utorrent should work perfectly, wine is a supported platform for utorrent)

http://winehq.com

http://thisismyinter.net/?p=29

intel macs only, should be obvious.

you need x86 hardware to run windows and to natively import windows libraries, you will still obviously need x86 hardware.

there was some effort to get wine on ppc hardware, but that is a combination of wine and an x86 emulator for ppc. you are on your own if you are looking for that.

 

Nice, i never knew WINE ran on anything but Linux. Good info.

 

Yeah, one more vote for Transmission!

 

for the record, most linux software runs on mac.