SharePoint 2013 Hardware Requirements - RAM!

Time to beef up that laptop!  There's a posting on TechNet describing the minimum hardware footprint for SharePoint 2013: 

http://technet.microsoft.com/library/cc262485(office.15)?ocid=fwlink

Of particular note is the RAM requirement - even for a developer box SP2013 wants 8GB of RAM.  A lot of the newer laptops go up to 32GB but my HP 8540w is maxed at 8GB.  I'm installing now using my usual two VM model, one for the AD & SQL Server box, the other for SharePoint.  Once done I'll post on performance, compared to the server running in our model office lab.