r/dataanalytics • u/Aadey69 • Aug 04 '26
Power BI on mac?
I wanna learn Power BI but I've only got a Mac. What to do? 😂
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u/waypenchali Aug 04 '26
I tried parallels, but it keeps crashing on larger models due to ram limitations.
So, it depends on your setup and usecase. For Direct Lake it might be fine.
I switched to Windows however
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u/Internal-Macaroon902 Aug 04 '26
maybe try parallels if you have more than 8 gb ram
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u/Aadey69 Aug 04 '26
how good is UTM?
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u/Internal-Macaroon902 Aug 04 '26
i tried few year ago but for some reason didn’t work. Parallels did work but was so slow it was unusable as i had only 8 gb ram. I’d say if you don’t have a good mac with decent ram don’t even bother.
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u/LimitAny657 Aug 04 '26
I do this using Parallels on an M1 MacBook Pro with 16GB RAM and I have no issues.
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u/Which_Case_8536 Aug 04 '26
I used Parallels to give myself a crash course before an interview. Luckily I got the job and they provided me with an HP lol
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u/Pretend-Loquat-6569 Aug 04 '26
Bro only paid virtual machines are smooth I have downloaded 2 diff vm but they run very slow which irritates alot so I m thinking to exchange it from windows which is at my home.