Workstation

[bertusavius]

My employer has just given me carte blanche to order a workstation to run Powerpivot on.
My typical database will consist of 1 million rows+ and I need to be compatible with an excel 2010 environment.

I was thinking of a core i7 system with 8gb mem with 64 os and office. Also SSD.

is this overkill?
are there other issues to consider?
is it worth it to switch to Office2013?

 

[RoryA]

If you need the models to be compatible with 2010, don't switch to 2013.