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In which case you either boot into windows or use parallels....

Hmm, I'm very tempted (as a Linux development machine in Parallels rather than Windows) -- it's UKP500 cheaper than an Armari and UKP1000 cheaper than a Dell of the same spec. About the only thing stopping me is that I've already got almost all the bits, and in theory buying a motherboard (Supermicro X7DA8 or similar), two Xeons and some RAM would be UKP1000 cheaper still, and not leave me with a whole unused computer to think what to do with -- but nobody seems to be selling the boards or chips at this point.

(I waited so long for someone to actually sell the H8DS8 or similar and Opteron 280s that the Xeons are now faster again.)

Peter