Nice links... My weather data is currently run by cumulus (love the local and net UI) and I also have needs to run other M$ specific software unfortunately... Also I looked into the foxconn machine and I have to say: those are some darn good deals. However, I found I could get a differnet hard drive (caviar blue 640 sata II from WD and keep it under £180) cheaper than £130 + HD + RAM.... Any thoughts on which version of M$ I should go for? Severly leaning towards home server/vista/7 now... Its in the high NT range. Just have a few more benchmarks to run in my VMs.

The reason I posted this was to avoid choosing something with a killer niche problem or missing out on some very sweet config of some M$ OS... Have done so in the past, dont intend to do so again. XD