μTorrent, the world most popular BitTorrent client which Windows users have been using for long, is now officially released for (Intel) Mac OS X though still in a beta.

μTorrent is designed to use minimal computer resources while still efficient. Mac version, said, continues being as lightweight and speedy as Windows counterpart.

“The main reason I like uTorrent so much is because downloads are considerably faster in it than in any other BitTorrent client. This held true when I compared uTorrent Mac to Transmission and Xtorrent. The downloads speeds in both couldn’t match uTorrent’s. Azureus was the only one that came close, just as I had expected.” reported Ernesto, TorrentFreak, one of the early beta testers.

μTorrent was developed by Ludvig Strigeus mostly in his free time. The first version was introduced to public in 2005 and the program has received constantly good words for its feature set, performance and stability.

In December 2006, BitTorrent Inc acquired µTorrent for undisclosed sum. Ludvig Strigeus now serves as a technical consultant but does the majority of the development work.