Hi, TFS comes with VS2010 when you buy an MSDN subscription (from Professional with MSDN upwards), which is a really good way of getting your hands on all this stuff... Look at the volume licensing though - far better value than retail! Have a look at the charts here to see what you get: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/subscriptions/subscriptionschart.aspx[^] Cheers, Rob.

I saw a good blog post about just this topic the other day... Basically make sure you get (at least) a 7200rpm hard disc and as much RAM as you can... Then if you've still got money left over upgrade the CPU. Dual core is good! I personally use XP with 4GB RAM, 7200RPM disc and a AMD Athlon X2 3800+ and it flies! http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/11/01/tip-trick-hard-drive-speed-and-visual-studio-performance.aspx[^]