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WeeTeckTan
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Mar 11, 2019
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Hardware Software Requirement for SharePoint Online users

Dear All,   I couldn't find any related document for the optimum spec machine for SharePoint Online end users. This is the list of machine spec. Please comment. Thanks.   Operating system ...
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    Cian Allner
    Mar 11, 2019

    They’re isn’t specifically requirements listed for SharePoint Online but in the requirements for Office, in the ‘Office requirements and the Office 365 plans for business, education, and government’ section it has some hardware specs:

     

    https://products.office.com/en-gb/office-system-requirements

     

    The processor is recommended to be “1.6 gigahertz (GHz) or faster, 2-core. 2.0 GHz or greater recommended for Skype for Business” with at least 4GB RAM and at 4GB free disk space, with 1280 x 768 screen resolution.  Check the link for more specifics.

     

    Hope that helps.

     

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jcgonzalezmartin
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Mar 11, 2019
What Microsoft Surface Model do you have in place? I'm still using my "old" Suraface Pro 2 with 8 GB RAM and it works like a charm... 3 GB can be not enough but not because of Office, just because of the OS (Specially Windows 7)
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WeeTeckTan
Iron Contributor
Mar 11, 2019

jcgonzalezmartin ,yeah..same spec with you. Probably the user's expectation is higher.

May expect that the page loading is 1 or 2 seconds. 

You are right that Windows 7 performance is slower than Windows 10. 

I observed that 2 users use the desktop machine in same model and same spec but in different OS (Win 7 and Win 10).

The user experience in Win 10 is better than Win 7. 

Thanks.

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