In light of my existing computer having a habit of abruptly power offing, I have been monitoring prices at several local computer stores and for particularly good deals with the various big companies. After several weeks of monitoring I picked a Dell E521 that includes the Pacifica virtualization technology (AMD 64 X2 5000+) which also enough disk space and RAM to allow for a Xen based Windows XP and at least one LAMP for my drupal testing environment.