- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Mac OS X 10.5 Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 PPC, Mac OS X 10.4 PPC, Mac OS X 10.3.9
- Date added: November 29, 2006
- Total Downloads: 316,986
- Downloads last week: 863
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 19 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
With all the other good BitTorrent clients out there for the Mac now, it's hard to make the case for using the official BitTorrent client for downloading torrents. (Note that this confusingly named application shares its name with the company, entertainment network, and popular protocol BitTorrent.) The current interface is much more clean and useful than in previous iterations, and BitTorrent does deliver on what it promises, with features like automatic port mapping and local peer discovery. But with well over a year since the last update and scant documentation, BitTorrent just hasn't kept up with the competition. Overall, we think BitTorrent does a fairly good job, but with some slow response times, a lack of development, and a noticeably aged interface, you might want to look elsewhere.Publisher's description
From BitTorrent :BitTorrent's software client allows you to quickly download high-quality digital content such as video, music, and games. Available in over 20 languages, it harnesses our community of over 70 million users to deliver files to your PC faster than anything else out there. Features include:
- Dynamic bandwidth management allows you to download content without disrupting web browsing, email, or other applications
- Detailed graphs and stats on the health of digital media files provide you a safer, more controlled downloading experience
- Accelerated transfer speed without the need to reconfigure any hardware through local peer discovery and automatic port mapping
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 3.1 stars out of 19 votes
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2 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: BitTorrent 4.27.2
Pros: I was able to download some torrents files that "Tomato" could not.
Cons: It seems to be much slower than "Tomato". It appears to have a 'memory leak' problem: it crashes after about 4 hours of operation and has to be restarted. The user interface is not as informative and intuitive as it could be.
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: BitTorrent 4.27.2
Pros: meh, it's a torrent client that works basically
Cons: it's slow at loading (macintel), it loads the torrent files slowly and it handles the connections badly.
try using Transmission, it just rocks.
(transmission.m0k.org)
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: BitTorrent 4.27.2
"If using Mac, download Transmission."
Pros: Can be used to upload torrents
Cons: Bad connections, must program certain routers to use connection ports
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: BitTorrent 4.27.2
Pros: Free
Cons: Sloooooowwwwww
Windows version is much better
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Version: BitTorrent 4.27.2
"Horrible Speed...Mac users: Use Transmission!"
Pros: The layout is very clean and the site FAQ is great
Cons: Way too slow! It will take you DAYS to download a file that's less than 1GB in size on even the fastest connection. They claim the more files you 'seed' the faster you can download but that is not the case! Average file speed is less than 4 KB/s. If you're on Mac OS X get Transmission. You'll download files many many MANY times quicker.
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