# Macs better than PCs for PTB-3?

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**Created:** [September 10, 2007, 2:35pm UTC](https://psychtoolbox.discourse.group/t/macs-better-than-pcs-for-ptb-3/1877 "2007-09-10T14:35:24Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 10, 2007, 2:35pm UTC](https://psychtoolbox.discourse.group/t/macs-better-than-pcs-for-ptb-3/1877/1 "2007-09-10T14:35:24Z")

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Hello,  
  
The 'System Requirements' page for the PTB Wiki seems pretty  
unambiguous wrt Macs (Mac Pros, presumably) being the preferred system  
for PTB-3. But as our lab is about to buy a system and $$ is on the  
line, I thought I would double-check--are there known disadvantages to  
using PTB-3 on Windows PCs rather than Macs? Does keeping the  
Windows version of PTB3 running remain a secondary priority for the  
developers? Sorry if this question has been discussed to extinction  
on this forum, but my initial searches at least didn't find anything  
recent on this, though there do seem to be many PC-platform-specific  
issues that come up.  
  
Best,  
Matt Phillips