Question : Best approach to setting up test/development for learning SharePoint 2010?

I would like to learn how to Admin and Develop in SharePoint 2010.

What's the best approach to setting up my own environment at home? What exactly to I need to purchase?

This will be on a Windows 7, 64-bit machine

Answer : Best approach to setting up test/development for learning SharePoint 2010?

Install an 64 bit operating system on it. Preferably a trial version of Server 2008, though Windows 7 x64 should do it.

Download the trial sharepoint package from teh link above and install that on the O/S.

Learn SharePoint.

Done.