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Mac Bit Torrents

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My girlfriend recently picked up an iBook, and I was wondering how hard it was to find Bit Torrents or other kind of P2P for Mac. (Specifically a method of getting Office for Mac).

 

There's gotta be a few Mac users here so any help is appriciated.

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How about places to get software for Mac? She only has 56K and I have the newly-upgraded super-dee-duper Comcast cable so I'd be the one doing the leeching on her behalf.

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I'm not going to help you find warez because I can't stand it when people use this forum to try and get free illegal shit. I'm not going to be high and mighty and say I never do it or anything, but I don't actually ask people publically to find my crap.

 

Besides, Mac has almost no warez scene (never did), and the only serious site that existed was invite-only and got shut down by Apple the other week for sharing iLife 05.

 

http://www.openoffice.org

 

Free, open source office suite. Will open and save files in Microsoft Office format. Just as easy or difficult to use as MS Office, depending on whether you're a basic or advanced user.

 

Lastly, all BitTorrent clients for Mac suck for one reason or another, most of which have to do to poor programming and resource management. Azureus has the most features, but is Java-based and a resource PIG. It also has the biggest memory leaks. Tomato Torrent has few features to speak of and also make some leaks, though not as big.

 

The general consensus is that the best balance is the client located on the official site, located here. Upon first opening it, it'll bug you to send the author money and open up a web page with a picture of his ugly mug, but if you just click the "I've donated" button it doesn't bother you with this anymore. And if you're dishonest enough to download pirated software, you can click the button.

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