Is laptop i3 4th gen/ram 16gb/ssd 256gb good enough to work on PBI Desktop?

[Norpriest]

Is laptop i3 4th gen/ram 16gb/ssd 256gb good enough to work on PBI Desktop?

What part of PowerBI that CPU affects the most?

Thank you

[v-jingzhang]

Hi @Norpriest 

Please check if this post helps: 

https://www.reddit.com/r/PowerBI/comments/7shha8/hardware_requirements_real_world_advice/

Usually multiple calculations (complex measures and calculated columns) in large datasets will consume much CPU and memory. You can refer to this link to see what processes are involved when running Power BI Desktop. You can also use some tools to monitor the performance.

Hope this helps.

Community Support Team _ Jing Zhang
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[amitchandak]

@Norpriest , Configuration seems fine. But I most of the time used i5 and i7.