[josh.pruim]

I went out to the electronics store today (Sale on 32GB flash drives, woo!) and bought a drive. Agreeing with the slow part, took 6 1/2 hours to install Windows Server 2008 R2 with none of the bells and whistles (During which, a process hung because of the lack of a second NIC [Apparently this happens a lot?], had to restart the install from there). Boot and operation, however, was quite fast. Still have not tested the behavior of it on a Mac, but I'm assuming the speeds and performance would be similar to my PC, as they both have more than 2 GB of RAM, along with a Core i5 in the newer, entry level MacBook Pro.

Fusion is also very nice, as it's cheaper than Workstation (My workstation license was about $200, but I use it almost daily, and haven't had any regrets with that purchase [Heck of a lot cheaper than an additional computer to debug stuff on])

The R2 idea was tossed out, as I refused to add a second Virtual NIC, because then (For some reason, small bug or misconfiguration I think) it would hang my host card. I settled with Server 2008 SP2 instead.