Recently I submitted the following entry to a contest about dream virtualization environments. It isn’t datacenter level virtualization, but it is still taking advantage of the technology. Here is my entry:

My Entry:

In an ideal setup I would have 2 systems, a nice ultra light 12″ intel based macbook laptop for ultra portable applications. This laptop would have OSX 10.5, with bootcamp dual booting to an external firewire drive holding Vista and XP. When I arrive home I would have a nice dual quad core (8 cores total) Mac Pro, also running 10.5, which I could plug the firewire drive right into and boot into OSX or bootcamp. When I have it loaded into OSX I would have the dual 30″ screens 1 with OSX and 1 with Parallels XP/Vista, This would allow me to build and debug websites in the ultimate machine. Someday my dream will come true, where applications will be truely universal, until then I’m stuck writting on this silly dell laptop waiting to be rich.

So what would you do differently? Is firewire too slow? I think it would be kick ass, and 60″ of LCD goodness is hard to top. Let me know your thoughts, or better yet submit your own to them:

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