Gah. Oh, well. I think my wheezy little MBAir would have difficulty running it in Parallels or what have you. It's funny - at work, our IT team is all atwitter because we're updating from Word for Windows 2003 to Word for Windows 2007!

As far as the Windows MBAir-alikes, you're highlighting my shallowness. My MBA is a thing of beauty and pride; that Acer sounds like it's faster and more powerful than my MBA, and, at $550 in the US, less than half price of even a refurb'd MBA. But I love it too much to let it go.

And speaking of beauty, the Cinema Display may be over a year old, but the Apple user forums are a fantastic source of information. I'd bet that people there would help sort you out. Just don't tell them you've lapsed...