Oh No 2007..I want 2010 man

Yes Yes brother and sisters I understand...You all are super duper techies and upgraded guys n gals...We are in 2011 and everyone wants to know about 2010 and not 2007 and work on latest.Good but to be very frank those who worked or have knowledge of 2007 will always have upper hand in 2010 too as core concepts like object model,planning and deployment,administration and configuration concepts are similar or extended from 2007. Though you can directly start on 2010, I would advise to c;ear and practice basics of 2007.It will also help during migration and maintenance kind a project.

The best way if you need Sharepoint 2010 on your lappy or desktop is to check first if your processor is 64 bit and if not then upgrade bro there is no way cause on metal or virtual sharepoint 2010 needs processor to be 64 bit.......So you have good reason to ask your big bro or declare your dad that you need new lappy or workstation.....those who already have it guys start study you can't give any reason ok ? and neither you will get new beautiful 64 bit but guys like you and me  can blackmail new 32 bit players who will upgrade for treat cause they will need our help and they have new machine also.

MS guys have given on metal how can you have sp2010 dev environment here but if you are virtual vhd guy then goto  download 2010 info worker vhd . On this vhd but, you will need to install Visual Studio 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint 2010 SDK.

And fans of virtual pc 2007 will be disappointed a bit as2010 info worker vhd  VM requires HyperV R2. Virtual PC is not supported because there is no support for 64bit guest in Virtual PC. If you have VMWare you could use some tools to convert the .vhd to .vmdk and use it in VMWare.Don't worry all freebies VMWare is paid but sun virtual box is not and Sharepoint 2010 can be ran on sun virtual box too.
Sun’s VirtualBox is free, and an interesting option.  It’s the only virtualization tool I know of that let’s you run a 64-bit guest on a 32-bit host. On the downside, it doesn’t have good snapshot support, and it won’t let me hand over more that half my RAM to the guest.Stuart discusses virtualisation option in detail here and if you wanna build on metal or in virtual check out this wiki

So Friends I gave you latest technology on your laptop or desktop so you can send me thanking comments and all but more than that I would be happy if you post all the issues you are facing so that I will try to answer or redirect you to proper KB..

Those still struggling and on 32 bit wish to have 3GB switch and need step by step guidance refer below

Virtual Box Sharepoint2010

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Pictorially sharepoint 2010 dev is represented by our friend below

Finally I dedicate this post to Mr. Shiv Khera whose books keep me inspiring and doing more...

.Thanks a lot shiv keep writing..