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Totally support & recommend the Oracle VirtualBox for your VMs on Windows 7 Desktops.
Virtualbox with a fast usb 3.0 drive. It rocks!
Well, I got a new monitor sh and found out my old igel winestra thin client wasnt really working with its max resolution in Debian so I had to adapt and added a desktop to my proxmox test server.
So far everything works dandy, in spite of being an E-450 on the Brazos platform. So, since the original thread, virtualization went far, you can now do all kinds of weird combinations even with low end CPUs.
Use XEN with graphics card and IO passthrough. True native virtualization.
But if that's not possible, VMware is much faster than VirtualBox in terms of graphics, IO, and much less CPU overhead.
I am not sure about that, used both player and se versions of those and I didnt notice much of a difference. It could be faster a bit, but not much.
This is quite an old thread which I have not followed much. Anyway-
If you are looking for a linux laptop or desktop for that matter- don't get one with nvidia or ati graphics. You will have a hard time with those closed source drivers. Sadly with amd cpus now- they always have ati graphics built in. Not suprising since amd have bought ati.
So for default- only the intel graphics with intel cpus (without any ati / nvidia graphics bundle) are what you should buy if you plan to get a linux computer. Also watch out for the virtualization flags in cpu which you need.
So my setup now- my older laptops are thinkpads sl410 with an old core2duo but with virt flags. My new one is quite cheap but has an i7. As for virtualization- I have tried kvm before but in my work right now- we are trying docker in ubuntu 14.04- which is a light weight container instead of virtualization.
I mostly agree with @vampireJ above, with the caveat that some Intel GPUs are from a different series. The PowerVR GPUs from Intel have terrible Linux support and should be avoided. They mostly come with Atoms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_GMA#PowerVR_GPU_based