PowerBi on Mac, 24GB RAM enough?

[AppleFan.]

Hello everyone,

I might need to run PowerBi in parallels at some point for college and I’m wondering if 24GB on a MacBook Pro M5 will be enough or if I should bump the ram to 32GB.

Wondering if anyone else has used Powerbi on Mac on parallels and what your experiences are in terms of RAM.

 

[bradman83]

Depends how large your data models are and how complex your visuals and calculations are.

I use Power BI extensively on my Windows work laptop with 32 GB of RAM and it can be laggy at times (but I also have a lot of other things running). I do find that the lagginess is more processor-bound than RAM limited.

Consider that you'll need RAM for both the base macOS system and Windows, and for Power BI. I would strongly consider upgrading to 32.