>>>I've been followed a lot of discussions on the .Net framework where many users installed it on a dedicated PC. Do I really need to have another PC to work with it?
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>>Make sure you feed the beast with enough RAM :-)
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>Such as?

As much as you can afford. Bare minimum, I'd say 256 although at today's prices there is no reason not to start with 512 for a development machine.