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I would say go for PC version. To be more precise, go for Solaris installed in VirtualBox or VMware. IMO, for testing/learning purposes it is much better solution. If you break something, you can quickly revert to usable state (in VirtualBox using snapshots). Using virtualization you can easily simulate different hardware configurations (multiple disks which then can be used to test SVM or ZFS, multiple network cards to test different network configurations for example for zones, etc).