This review applies only the the Beta2 release - all issues may be remedied in the future public release...

Xtorrent is a fantastic UI, clean and intuitive and well designed. David is a fantastic designer, great programer and dedicated Mac platform developer.

BUT, as with Acquisition (which I also love), I have found that these applications can be very unstable and virtually unusable on too many people's Macs - laptops in particular.

Simply, they are memory and processor hogs. I can run a dozen apps (some quite intensive) at the same time (Adobe CS2, FCPro, MSOffice, Mail, FileMaker, Quicktime, Google Earth, etc) on my Powerbook and not overwhelm my PCU and send my cooling fans spinning, but just Xtorrent (or Acquisition for that matter) alone can bring the whole computer to a standstill.

I should note that this does not happen every time, but there is something in the code of David's apps that has the tendency to just confund, beleager and overwhelm even G5 desktops from time to time, never mind a year-old G4 Powerbook.

So with that, I give Xtorrent very high marks for design, intuitive controls and what it does - in fact it gets my highest rating of them all. But I have to give it rather low marks for the way those features are implemented.

Not being a programmer, just simply a user, I am not qualified to say whether this problem is avoidable, but I can say that while I don't like any of them as much, most other P2P/Torrent clients require far less processor/memory commitment.

These are good apps that deserve a try and your support. I just hope he can eventually figure out a way to make them work.