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Spent this morning rebuilding my laptop with Windows Server 2008 so I can run Hyper-V

Michael O'Donovan has demonstrated that SharePoint performance on Hyper-V is greatly improved over that achieved with Virtual Server 2005. Generally 100% faster - and search queries 200% faster under Hyper-V.

• SharePoint under Hyper-V versus Virtual Server 2005 R2

I also learnt today that my US colleagues are using solid state disk drives and getting a further 2 to 3 times performance improvement.

Useful article on how to turn a Windows Server machine to have workstation characteristics

• How to convert your Windows Server 2008... to a Workstation!
• update: Windows Server 2008 Workstation Converter

And Spence solved my problem of unknown Bluetooth devices on Windows Server 2008.

• Enabling Bluetooth on Windows Server 2008