Install windows on MacBook Air SSD?

Hello,
I'm interested in buying a 1.6 GHz (or 1.8 GHz) MacBook Air with a 64GB solid-state drive.
Is it possible to run Windows on such a machine using either Parallels or VMware Fusion?
I won't need to use iLife on this MacBook Air.
Thanks!
Mike

Yes, there is enough space on the drive. VMWare Fusion itself needs 140 MB of space. The VM with XP will need about 15 GB once you get all your software on there (Office, etc). There won't be masses of space left, but it will go. I would advice using Monolingual http://monolingual.sourceforge.net/ to remove all unnecessary language packages from OS X. That alone will save you as much space as your XP install without additional software.
Windows runs very well indeed under WMWare Fusion on my MBA for all regular tasks (office apps, email, surfing, IM). What it obviously would not do so well would be graphic-intensive games or CPU-intensive tasks like video editing.
I would recommend Windows 2000 or XP as the guest OS. Definitely not Vista.
Regards,
Serious

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