The fact is, if you’re going to be using Tableau on a regular basis, connecting to more than just a few thousand rows in an Excel file, and you’re planning on building out some workbooks with a moderate amount of complexity, then you’re probably going to want a better spec PC. Now for the disclaimer – these recommendations are based on my experience installing and using Tableau Desktop in many, many different customer environments: If we really want to Tableau ‘at the speed of thought’, then we should do our best to avoid timeouts and crashes caused by resource constraints, so here’s what I believe should be the recommended minimum system requirements for Tableau Desktop. 64-bit architecture only (come on people it’s 2017).Microsoft Windows 7 SP2 or newer (or Microsoft Server 2008 R2 of newer). Intel Core i3/i5 or AMD Athlon processor or newer.8GB memory (to cope with large datasets and complex workbooks).Solid-state drive (SSD) disk, with 5 GB minimum free disk space. I decided to test Tableau’s performance in a Windows virtual machine in Parallels on my Mac, switching up the CPU and RAM and then comparing the time taken to do various tasks, for example, loading a datasource, viewing number of records, taking an extract etc.
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