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	[[!meta title="System requirements and recommended USB sticks"]]
	[[!toc startlevel=2 levels=2]]
	<h2 id="computer">System requirements</h2>
	Tails works on most PC computers that are less than 10 years old.
	Tails does not work on:
	Mac computers with an Apple processor (M1, M2, and so on)
	Smartphones or tablets
	Raspberry Pi
	Tails might not work on some PC computers, for example, if their [[graphics card is incompatible with Linux\|support/known_issues/graphics]]. Nvidia or AMD Radeon cards often do not work in Tails.
	<p>See our [[list of known hardware compatibility issues\|support/known_issues]].</p>
	Detailed hardware requirements
	3 GB of RAM to work smoothly.
	Tails can work with less than 3 GB RAM but might experience reduced performance, instability, or crashes.
	The ability to start from a USB stick or a DVD reader.
	A 64-bit [[!wikipedia x86-64]] [[!wikipedia IBM PC compatible]] processor.
	Tails does not works on [[!wikipedia ARM_architecture desc="ARM"]] or [[!wikipedia PowerPC]] processors.
	Tails does not work on 32-bit computers since [[Tails 3.0\|news/Tails_3.0_will_require_a_64-bit_processor]] (June 2017).
	Recommended laptops

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