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<h2 id="computer">System requirements</h2>

Tails works on most PC computers that are less than 10 years old.

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.

Detailed hardware requirements

3 GB of RAM to work smoothly.

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To update the list of Mac computer:

Store an archive of WhisperBack reports from the last 6 months in a folder.

Decrypt all the reports:

~/Tails/blueprints/stats/whisperback_scripts/decrypt.rb

Extract the list of computer models:

~/Tails/blueprints/stats/whisperback_scripts/content_of.rb "/usr/sbin/dmidecode -s system-product-name" > machines

Sort and count identical models:

grep -v Bug_report machines | sort | uniq -c | sort -rhk 1 > top

Share WhisperBack reports number with the Tails team and ask them to evaluate hardware compatibility hints in those reports.