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Joe_Sharman
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3 years ago
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Power Bi On Apple mac

Hi there, Im a new analyst at my company and have started to look at data visualisation tools for my company. Most of the employees at the company use Apple laptops. I know this means we can not d...
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  • TomMartens's avatar
    TomMartens
    3 years ago

    Hey Joe_Sharman ,

     

    Basically, all your questions can be answered with yes, but you need Power BI Desktop for report authoring.

    At this point in time, the data modeling capabilities coming with Power BI Service are not on par with Power BI Desktop the same is valid for report design Desktop. Next to that, you need to create the dataset using Power BI Desktop, with Power BI Desktop you can select MySQL as data source, that feed the dataset.

     

    I'm converted to a MBP M2 2 months ago, I love the machine for many reasons. I use Power BI Desktop in combination with Parallels Pro, becaues I want to assign more than 8GB of RAM to the virtual Windows Machine.

    Hopefully, this helps to make your decision.

    Regards,
    Tom

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sergej_og
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3 years ago

Hi Joe_Sharman ,
in our company we also partly use mac. since a few weeks me as well.
I use a remote VM to develop datamodels in PBI Desktop.
You will most likely need a VM because of the gateway. So you can use the same approach for you PBI Desktop thoghts. Provide you with a VM for this case (access through Microsoft Remote Desktop possible - for Mac)

Regards,
Sergej