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doesn't seem to have intel support... damn it.

I would really like an option to hide the little C square. I haven't used this app in ages due to this, but correct me if I'm wrong... that square appears on top of EVERYTHING... including full screen movies... Why not do like EVERY OTHER APP and have an option to put it up in the menubar, or have it be hotkey only...?

Quite useful. I use it to circumvent the time needed for starting up or closing cpu or memory intense application in order to work with others smoothly. Way faster to switch between applications (see groxx' gaming example), and also allows the OS to page out memory allocated by the stopped applications (afaik). So, speeds up the other applications not only by freeing cpu time.

It's too bad this app is for PPC only, how about sharing the love to us Intel users?

...can't wait for that day to come.

heh - very well put, computernap

For the life of me I cannot get this app to show the friends of my friends? Am I missing something...

dukevim, you have to download the friends of your friends individually.

I'm not the biggest fan of how Azureus handles OS X (or vice versa) but it seems to be the only one with proxy configuration...

It's big, it's huge, it's complicated, it's a UI disaster.

It supports magnet links, gets the fastest speeds, has a plugin to provide a web-based interface, and can email you when it's done downloading files.

This is a love/hate app.

I prefer Transmission, but sometimes I need the features of Azureus. Hopefully something will get more options.

Its a bit bloated compaired to whats being offered on the Windows side, but it has all the options you could ever want. A must have app for OS X

Azureus is so huge and Transmission so tiny..

There is an universal binary version for Intel Macs at
http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/Intel_Macs

I'm not a big fan due it its Java bloatedness but Azureus is the only Mac client that actually has features I would deem important, like the individual selection or prioritisation of files.

It doesn't help that Transmission is banned from several trackers for abusing the BT protocol and hammering trackers. I'd love to switch if the devs grow up.

Until then, it's Azureus for me.

It's really not that much of a CPU hog. With the app hidden and twelve torrents downloading and seeding, it's using about 2% CPU on my 1.5Ghz G4 PowerBook.

the 2.5 update is now very usable on my powerbook. resource use is way down and the gui looks a bit cleaner.

Resource hungry, but I've done tests (downloading the same file from the same comp at about the same time) and this has always been faster than any of the native Cocoa torrent apps. I love it, even with it's problems. It also gives me all the geeky info on the download that I love.

Lots and lots of options, and as you're probably realizing by reading other comments, it's a huge resource hog. Why oh why does it have to be Java-based?
If you need more specific controls over what you're downloading and how, this is THE app for you. But it's a beast.

I used to use it, but I've transferred torrenting to my server-PC using uTorrent. Compared to uTorrent, it has noticeably slower downloads and doesn't find anywhere near the peers. I compare all torrent apps to that.

Great and feature packed.
The main problem is that is resource heavy and quite slow to start up..probably because it is a java based program.

It also comes "out of the box" with absolutely the worst settings available. The settings are so bad that you'll probably get slow download speeds and poor connections regardless of how good the torrent is.
The four things to fix (absolutely Essential) before you start using are (in Options):
1 specify a different port and forward your router correctly (something in the 40000-60000 range should do)
2 alter your transfer settings to get good speeds
3 alter your Ignore->seeding->Ignore rules
4 Change this little known problem in the (advanced mode) Connection->advanced network settings->Max Simultaneous Outbound Connection Attempts from the default <10 to something like 80... to find out more about this particular problem, copy and paste this link http://torrentfreak.com/speed-up-bitcomet-and-µtorrent as the "mu" symbol is not transferred correctly into the link when I try to include it as one in this comment.

With these simple changes (follow the links to learn more about them), you'll get extremely fast downloads. My friends who use PC's have similar download speeds on PC only torrent progs that match mine now.

Read more here

Overall, slow to startup due to it being Java based, but has so many tweakable options that you can end up with the fastest downloads of any other torrent prog for the mac (and no tracker bans either )

3.0 is out and if they make no plans to change the gui then I'm sure I'm sticking with 2.5.0. The zudeo integration is kind of obnoxious, kind of neat.