okay, I'm sold . Sent in my pre-order. My acid test was installing visual studio team suite edition 2005 on my macbook 2.0 2gig ram machine. Install went a little slow, but with 1gig dedicated to the vm, edit performance is fine, debugging works like a champ, and compiles of large projects are only about 30% slower than on my acer 8200 dual core machine. More than acceptable for me, and actually quicker than building the same projects in a seperate VM under the Acer. One thing I haven't figured out, though. Anyone know how to simulate a right mouse click on a macbook, or reconfigure some key combination to do it? Thx Ted