# Dashboard more responsive from same or different pi?

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-more-responsive-from-same-or-different-pi/3636>\
**Category:** Dashboard\
**Created:** [2 October 2018 20:14 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-more-responsive-from-same-or-different-pi/3636 "2018-10-02T20:14:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![taisau](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/taisau/32/4605_2.png) [@taisau](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/taisau)\
**Post date:** [2 October 2018 20:14 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-more-responsive-from-same-or-different-pi/3636/1 "2018-10-02T20:14:37Z")

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Hello all,  
My plan is to use the dashboard via a touchscreen connected directly to the pi B+ running node-red, but it seems that when I browse via a laptop, the dashboard is more responsive.  
Question: Is it a given that running both a chrome browser and node-red on the same pi will never be as fast as separating these between two pis, even with the network layer is added in?

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**Author:** ![TotallyInformation](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/totallyinformation/32/31_2.png) [@TotallyInformation](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/TotallyInformation)\
**Post date:** [2 October 2018 20:53 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-more-responsive-from-same-or-different-pi/3636/2 "2018-10-02T20:53:32Z")

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Well, it rather depends.

But simplistically, if you set up your Pi to have no desktop gui, everything will run a lot faster (except the non-existent desktop of course 😄).

If you have a laptop, I wouldn't bother with a Pi desktop. You can also save some wiring and keyboard/monitor shenanigans as well. As long as you are reasonably happy with the SSH command line, you don't need the desktop at all and will save a lot of memory and CPU overhead.

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**Author:** ![dceejay](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/dceejay/32/38_2.png) [@dceejay](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dceejay)\
**Post date:** [3 October 2018 08:41 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-more-responsive-from-same-or-different-pi/3636/3 "2018-10-03T08:41:41Z")

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Yes as Julian says - running any modern browser on the Pi will be slow compared to almost anywhere else. Only do it if you have to...

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/d073cd938eafa2e558d7c2cd59003b3ef4963033.png) [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [29 January 2021 02:26 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-more-responsive-from-same-or-different-pi/3636/4 "2021-01-29T02:26:50Z")

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