Quickbooks 2015 system requirements?

[DonS]

Heya all

So apparently Quickbooks 2015 is stating it requires a 2.4Ghz processor (minimum!) and 2GB of RAM.

Has anyone had any experience with Quickbooks and their system requirements? I have a client that wants to order some laptops that are A8 Quad Core 1.7Ghz with 4GB RAM. Any idea of Quickbooks will run well on a system like this? I have been reading that Quickbooks does cannot take advantage of multi-core processors.

Thoughts?

 

[nlinecomputers]

Quickbooks are .NET apps so yes they take full advantage of multicore CPUs. And QB is a pig and needs decent hardware. AMD are crap processors anyway. i5 or better or don't bother. 8GB+ or don't bother.

 

[DonS]

Don't hold anything back, tell me how you really feel about this.

 

[Mercenary Roadie]

I'm running Quickbooks Premier Contractor on a 1.40 GHz Celeron with 4 GB memory using Win 7 Pro and have had no issues with speed or lagging.

Your experience may vary.

 

[nlinecomputers]

Bet those crappy laptops have 5400 RPM drives. That will really hold them back, much more then the weak processor or low ram. Also if you need more than one unit running QB then I assume you need networking. That will make higher demands on the laptop playing the server role. Yes it will all work. It will just be annoying to use day in and day out.

 

[DonS]

Well, I will report back once its all in place!

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

We start our clients business computers with an i5 and 8 gigs....just for basic stuff, and go on up from there. With just basic apps...there's a big difference in performance on identical systems otherwise...where some will have 4 gigs, others 8. I just got reminded of how big of a difference the performance is yesterday, as we onboarded a new medical office client. He had identical workstation (about 25 of them)...only difference was some had 4 gigs, others had 8 gigs, and the rest had 12 gigs. Sitting down at each and every computer....uninstalling :"junk"...cleaning them up, doing Microsoft updates, web player updates, and installing our agents...big difference in performance 'tween the 4 and 8 gig systems just doing those light things.

Lots of our clients run Quickbooks....and we ourselves run it (just upgraded our own office to Premier 2015 about 2 months ago). I've seen it so many times on different hardware..and see the difference in performance all the time. If it's a networked multi user version...you want it on a server with a fast disk system...I've seen it on all types of "servers"..and seen the differences in performance from the client side.

if your clients use it a lot and want it running good, and you want to give your clients a well running system...don't skimp.
If your clients balk at the prices of setting up proper systems to run it well..explain to them clearly the differences in performance...and how cheaper systems will run slow for them. It's a common line of business application..the users live in it all day every day (same with any line of biz app). Clearly explain how, for the life of the computers (say 3-5 years)...their "ROI"..Return On Investment...should illustrate on spending a bit more now on a proper system will yield good results over that life of the computers. Maybe some people think that Quickbooks normally runs slow...heck...lots of us call it "Slowbooks". But once you actually sit down and run Quickbooks on a proper speedy system...you realize that it doesn't have to be slow. And you'll be in pain if you have to go back and run it on a slow system.

It's not a hard sell.