Post your laptop configuration which you primarily use for Sharepoint Development purpose,Can be a lap with SP running on hyper-v or vmwares
dell m6500, i7 proc, 32gb ram, win8
hyper v – 15 vm’s including ad, exchange, tmg. sql
sp2013 vm runs on usb3 with 9gb ram…works fine if a little slow.
Plan to move over to SSD soon