Low code laptop (forgive me)

I haven’t owned a personal laptop for years but think I need one for the following –

Power platform – ability to build power apps, power bi report and flows.

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Would the power platform require any specific memory or would most handle this part.

Thanks

I’m not entirely sure what ‘power platform’ means.

Does it really need to be a laptop? A cheap(er) laptop that you can use to dial into a more powerfull desktop or work/server environment for serious compute stuff would be more sensible for travelling.

High spec laptops are expensive, and if you are doing intensive stuff, will cane the crap out of the battery unless you can keep it plugged into the mains, which you cant do with a laptop on the move.

It’s a Microsoft suite of products designed to automate and modernise manual office tasks.

I’ve never used them but Google would suggest that PowerApps / Power BI etc aren’t particularly demanding. MS recommends 4GB of RAM for a Windows box, that’s entry-level spec these days.

probably not if you are using them via the web interface.

power bi desktop can chug on low spec machines doing transformations on large datasets.

I have no experience of power automate desktop flows, but again I suspect that would be better with more ram.

probably not if you are using them via the web interface.

Which is exactly what I said

A cheap(er) laptop that you can use to dial into a more powerfull desktop or work/server environment for serious compute stuff

I use Power BI desktop a lot at work and while our laptops are pretty decent they’re also loaded with massive amounts of crap running in the background that hobble the performance.  Power BI doesn’t struggle for speed. It works better on a bigger screen though, which is something to consider if you don’t have an external monitor. 

MS flow is a cloud service IIRC, but I never really went further than playing with that so can’t exactly remember. 

A laptop with a solid state drive and decent amount of memory (8Gb probably) will do fine, I’d want those specs for anything these days. 

A core i5 with 8gb if team will be fine for building power apps/ power automate.

That’s what I use everyday for the same job.

MS flow is a cloud service 

Called power automate now, but yes that’s right. There is a desktop version too for robotic process automation.

Op, if you are starting from scratch the Microsoft app in a day and power automate in a day courses are good places to start and you can get a free developer environment to learn in.

I’d recommend a refurbed thinkpad laptop – 16Gb Ram, 1Tb SSD. You can get a pretty flash one for under £500 in that spec