Maitre'D Hardware Requirements

To facilitate reading and interpretation of hardware requirements, they are broken down in 3 tiers:

Minimum

The minimum requirement is the bare minimum that will allow the Maitre'D Advanced POS User Interface to operate adequately, without any consideration for possible expansion or "future-proofing".

Recommended

The recommended hardware configuration should yield adequate performance in most situations and provide headroom for future expansion of the system.

Large Sites / High Volume

The hardware configuration for large sites should yield adequate performance in restaurants using 20 or more POS workstations. This requirement also applies to restaurants with high volume of orders, where the number of POS workstations may not be as high as 20, but where the POS Workstations are in near-constant use.

Hardware Requirements for the Maitre'D Back-Office PC, Auxiliary Back-Office and Backup Server

Hardware	Recommended	Large sites
Operating System	See Operating System Requirements	See Operating System Requirements
CPU	Intel Core i5 2300 series or better	Intel Core i7 2600 series or better
RAM	8Gb	16Gb
Storage	SATA SSD 5Gb (installation) + 10Gb (storage)	NVMe SSD 5Gb (installation) + 10Gb (storage)
Graphics	DirectX 9 compatible or later	DirectX 9 compatible or later
Display	1920 x 1080	1920 x 1080
Network	Gigabit	Gigabit or better
Pointing Device	Mouse or equivalent	Mouse or equivalent
Printer (optional)	Ink jet or laser, US Letter or A4	Ink jet or laser, US Letter or A4

Hardware Requirements for the Legacy POS

Hardware	Minimum	Recommended	High Volume
Operating System	See Operating System Requirements	See Operating System Requirements	See Operating System Requirements
CPU	1 Ghz	Any Dual Core	Dual Core, 2 Ghz or better
RAM	4Gb	4Gb	4Gb
Storage (free space)	500Mb	500Mb	500Mb
Graphics	DirectX 9 compatible or later	DirectX 9 compatible or later	DirectX 9 compatible or later
Display	800 x 600	1024 x 768	1024 x 768 or better
Network	Gigabit	Gigabit	Gigabit or better
Pointing Device	Resistive touch screen	Projected Capacitive touch screen	Projected Capacitive touch screen

Hardware Requirements for the Advanced POS User Interface (HTML POS)

Hardware	Minimum	Recommended	High Volume
Operating System	See Operating System Requirements Windows 10 Pro, IoT, Enterprise Windows 11	See Operating System Requirements Windows 10 Pro, IoT, Enterprise Windows 11	See Operating System Requirements Windows 10 Pro, IoT, Enterprise Windows 11
CPU	Intel Celeron J1900 or better	Intel Celeron J4105 or better	Intel Core i3 2100 series or better
RAM	4Gb	8Gb	8Gb
Storage (free space)	1Gb	1Gb	1Gb
Graphics	DirectX 11 compatible or later	DirectX 11 compatible or later	DirectX 11 compatible or later
Display	1024 x 768	1024 x 768 or better	1024 x 768 or better
Network	Gigabit	Gigabit	Gigabit or better
Pointing Device	Resistive touch screen	Projected Capacitive touch screen	Projected Capacitive touch screen

Hardware Requirements for Android Tablets running the Maitre'D Mobile POS app (MPOS)

Hardware	Minimum	Recommended
Operating System	Android 10	Android 11 or later
CPU	Samsung Exynos 9611 or better Qualcomm Snapdragon 662 or better Unisoc Tiger T618 or better	Samsung Exynos 990 or better Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 or better
RAM	4Gb or more	6Gb or more
Storage	32Gb or more	64Gb or more
Screen Size	10'' or more	10'' or more
Screen Resolution	1080 x 1920 or better	1200 x 2000 or better

Hardware Requirements for Apple iPad Tablets running the Maitre'D Mobile POS app (MPOS)

Hardware	Minimum	Recommended
Operating System	iOS 14	iOS 14 or later
CPU	Apple A10X Fusion or better	Apple A12 Bionic or better
RAM	3Gb or more	3Gb or more
Storage	32Gb or more	64Gb or more
Screen Size	10'' or more	10'' or more
Screen Resolution	1080 x 1920 or better	1200 x 2000 or better

Hardware Requirements for Windows 11

In some cases, Windows 11 may have more stringent hardware requirements than Maitre'D. If you wish to use your POS system with Windows 11, these requirements need to be accounted for:

Component	Minimum
CPU	1 Gigahertz (GHZ) or faster, with 2 or more cores on a compatible 64-bit processor or System on a Chip (SoC).
RAM	4 gigabyte (GB) for POS workstations or 8 gigabyte (GB) for a back-office PC, auxiliary back-office, or backup server.
Storage	64 GB or larger.
System Firmware	UEFI, Secure Boot capable.
TPM	Trusted Platform Module (TPM) version 2.0.
Graphics Card	Compatible with DirectX 12 or later with WDDM 2.0 driver.
Display	High definition (720p) display that is greater than 9'' diagonally, 8 bits per color channel.

Additional Information

List of compatible Intel Processors

List of compatible AMD Processors

Trusted Platform Module (TPM) Technology Overview