Hi'ya there John, didn't mean bad, if sarcasm at all...yeps you's got me name. I've been forced to use an Apple MacBook Air notebook computer since last year. It's the bigger screen version, Core2 process with 2GBram and 255GB SSD disk. It looked really cool as a carry around device, and my boss got one for me. It's been happily running Windows Server 2008, SQL Server Denali, Sharepoint and Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 in a virtual machine, provisioned by the open source VirtualBox from Oracle. They have made me run demonstrations and tutorial explorations, using another virtual machine running on the same (tiny thin) MacBook Air as the server. This virtual machine is provisioned using an evaluation edition of VMware Fusion. Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate, Office 2010 provide the client experience. Clients using this set up do not identify 'speed of use' until more than 3 concurrent remote sessions are in progress. This computer is seriously unspec for brilliance on paper.... but because it's loaded with a SSD, it's virtual paging needs can be met very easily. 2 GB RAM... and we running Mac OS host, Windows ServerVM and a Visual Studio VM. Without a SSD it wouldn't be very easy to boot, let alone use ..... How you might select which one to deploy in bosses plant; very different question ;) I'm English, south coast... is it an accent thing? Kevin

God !!! just imagined what this MacBook Air thingie would be like without one ;-) guess running the VS Team thingie in 'a VirtualBox' is really slowing the developer doing the VMware thingie in a box.... Pricey... and lovely clean spec'ing hint. vNext and eight Kevin :rolleyes: