Microsoft Teams Users: Hardware Requirements

"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura) 10/07/2020 at 19:24 • Filed to: None

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Who is using Microsoft Teams effectively? How much laptop does someone need to be successful on Teams? I have a friend with a couple of kids doing remote learning using Teams and their laptop died. She is being told that she needs a Core i7 laptop with lots of bells and whistles and I’m not so sure. Would a computer that does Zoom okay run Teams?

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lone_liberal > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 10/07/2020 at 19:32

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I have a hard time believing that level of hardware is required. MS is notorious for downplaying their hardware requirements but what MS says isn’t even close to what they were told. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/hardware-requirements-for-the-teams-app

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 10/07/2020 at 19:49

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I use an extremely crappy three year old HP laptop with Intel Core i3 according to the sticker. Microsoft Teams takes an enormous performance hit but works. It just isn’t particularly pleasant but it builds character.

My phone can also barely run Teams so I wouldn’t worry to much.

404 - User No Longer Available > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 10/07/2020 at 19:49

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I’m only using it on my work MacBook... i7-8750H , 16GB, 512GB SSD.

DasWauto > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 10/07/2020 at 19:57

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You don’t even need to download the program itself; it’ll run just fine in a browser window so those hardware requirements are bogus. If it’ll run Chrome/Firefox/Netscape/etc, it’ll be fine.   

FWIW, I’ve used it on my iPad and it works well there.

facw > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 10/07/2020 at 20:06

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Someone lied to your friend. Teams is pretty lightweight. Maybe if you are using together mode all that video could be demanding, but I’ve never seen it be an issue. My 5 year old laptop with a 900MHz processor, and weak graphics, and I’ve never had an issue with Teams on it.

Phyrxes once again has a wagon! > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 10/07/2020 at 20:11

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My school laptop (older Dell I5 ultrabook) can run Meet/Teams/Zoom with no issues.  Its only really a challenge if I’m trying to push a youtube video through one of those and even then I can make it work by dropping the number of chrome tabs I have running.

Textured Soy Protein > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 10/07/2020 at 20:12

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My work machine has a pretty damn powerful (for a laptop) i7 and on Teams calls it’s fine but the fan runs a lot.

If using the actual Teams app causes the computer to chug, try opening the Teams meeting in a browser tab instead. That may or may not be an option depending on how your school has it set up but that can sometimes be less resource heavy.

Jason Spears > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 10/07/2020 at 20:18

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The Teams web app will run in the browser on a Chromebook. It’s not a heavy lift. Maybe the advice was something like “for the best user experience” or something, but come on, it’s Teams, not Doom Eternal.

just-a-scratch > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 10/07/2020 at 20:43

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I’m running a Dell Latitude 7800, Intel Core i5, and 8GB RAM for Zoom, Teams, Go-to meeting, and Skype. The only issues I have are when wifi quality suffers or putting in backgrounds images. Zoom doesn't do the backgrounds for me but Teams does.

DC3 LS, Fuck Hyundai, now and forever > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available 10/07/2020 at 20:50

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Good lord how does M icrosoft do it? I could do video calls on zoom on a laptop with a core 2 duo, although admittedly at low resolution

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 10/07/2020 at 21:02

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I have a dell i7 and I have no issue running the full corporate version of teams.

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > DC3 LS, Fuck Hyundai, now and forever 10/07/2020 at 21:21

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No idea. Teams is a capable tool but its performance sapping tendencies are unacceptable. I can run Adobe illustrator with Adobe InDesign open and my computer is more responsive.

66P1800inpieces > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 10/07/2020 at 21:23

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How can it require so much processing power and yet suck so much. We just switched from Skype including for regular calls and Teams feels so lightweight.  My biggest peeve is that often I dial an outside phone and it take 20 seconds for the recipient to hear me.  It feels like I am a beta tester. 

wafflesnfalafel > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 10/07/2020 at 21:23

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Teams is a POS - unless you value posting useless GIFs to a team board.

jmgadget > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available 10/07/2020 at 22:30

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A lot of Teams features (and the other office online tools aka one drive) are built on sharepoint and/or have a ton of sharepoint hooks to operate. Its why its such a bloated mess performance wise because its not just v ideo chat, but all the additional collab tools and apps they have built into it which also require sharepoint access and what not.

But in answer to performance. We have it running successfully on machines with i3 and i5 procs that are 4 or 5 years old with 4gb of ram.

jmgadget > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 10/07/2020 at 22:34

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Anything with i5 is always my recommendation for any machine. Its the sweet spot for longevity and performance, essential in these new digital all the time lives. 4gb would be the minimum but i always go for the 8gb and a SSD, even if its 120gb.

You can probably get away with an i3 from the last 2-3 years ok. But its not going to be a work horse. Chrome tabs will be limited and what not.

Maxima Speed > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 10/07/2020 at 22:47

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So, my work laptop is a Lenovo Thinkpad L480 with an i5 processor, 8GB of RAM, and an SSD. I work in IT and use Teams all day long everyday. My laptop does Team s fine but i dont try to multitask at all during meetings. Unfortunately the way teams is configured is that it will use whatever resources it can get while in meetings. It pull much much more than zoom. We have Macbook Pro’s, iMacs, and various PC’s of varying performace from i3’s to i7’s, 8GB to 32GB and every single one runs hard and loses significant multitasking speed while actively in meetings. Its just resource in tensive. My iphone 6SPlus also handles it well enough but again speed drops when multitasking.

newnamesameme > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 10/07/2020 at 22:48

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My work uses teams for everything and my 3+ year old i5 runs it and all the other crap I use just fine. 

Wacko > facw 10/07/2020 at 22:51

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You sure about that 900mhz cpu? That’s like Pentium III /celeron speeds that we had  20 years ago

facw > Wacko 10/07/2020 at 23:08

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Quite sure. Intel Core m3-6Y30: https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/88198/intel-core-m3-6y30-processor-4m-cache-up-to-2-20-ghz.html

Granted it can boo st up to 2.2GHz, but it is not exactly a powerhouse   

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > jmgadget 10/07/2020 at 23:11

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Yeah pretty much anything can run it but it sure takes a lot to run it well. 

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 10/23/2020 at 13:01

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I just used that for my interviews, I got my old Toshiba laptop out because of the camera and it was fine. Windows 8.1 Home and, I think it’s an i7 and I crammed all the RAM I could into it, I think it has 32GB of RAM with the other one plugged in there.