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I am excited. Very excited! This MacBook Air is my first (real) Mac and the timing couldn’t have been better. Over the last few years I’ve owned a lot of different computers and they always used to have Windows installed. My work requires me to run Windows somewhere, although I often prefer some alternative operating systems on the side. My last few laptops  contained a dual boot system with Linux, meaning I always had to save my work, restart my laptop before I could do serious stuff (for instance directly connect my laptop to the internet using a customer’s cable modem – stuff that Windows is not really good at, to put it mildly).

Lots of reboots later, I decided it was time for a change. Maybe desktop virtualisation (well, laptop virtualisation). Something like the very thin and sexy hypervisor Citrix XenClient is, allowing me to run both Windows and Linux at the same time. The problem with that was, that XenClient’s HCL wasn’t that extensive and besides: the laptop I had didn’t have proper processor support for it and I wasn’t sure I was going to get one of the laptops off the XenClient HCL. Not to speak of the (lack of) matureness of XenClient. Continue reading →