MacBook Air or MacBook Pro running Parallels

I'm looking at purchasing a new MacBook within the next month but i'm not sure which one to go with. I want to be able to install Parallels and run Windows Server 2008 R2 with SQL Server 2008 and Microsoft Access.
According to Parallels website, I should be able to achieve this with the MacBook Air but want to ask the communitie.
Thoughts?

I am using MBA 13' with 4 gig ram. Well i cannot speak for Parallel, but i can give you an example of running Windows XP SP3 using VMware on my Lion.
Typically there is ~2.5 to 2.7 gig ram left after Lion boot up. I alocate about 784~1gig ram for my virtual XP SP3 for compiling code/programming. Seem like Lion proccessor is able to handle the arm c compilation gracefully, and the read/write speed on SSd is not an issue either, even on a virtual machine...
But..i am left with <500 mb ram even on normal usage. If you happen to "reboot" your virtual machine, ram usage will drop even further, sometime hit < 50mb. Maybe the nature of VMware Fusion is to just retain and increase the ram during rebooting..but it is really awful to have <50 mb for a heavy OS.
if you have tested Parallel, which may occupy lesser ram and handle ram better than VMware, or Win server uses lesser ram than Win XP, then i dun see any problem. we can just use ethernet converter if your wifi source is not stable.
Dun forget the really "cool" feeling while you are using a ultra-book in PC term.

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