Go on let’s have em, what laptops are you all running and do you recommend for SP 2013 development ? The MBP a contender (surely not)!… Is anyone surviving on 16gb ?
UPDATE! Can you also add your laptop and configuration to this list : (User “Add to List”). http://list.ly/list/73V-sharepoint-2013-laptops. If someone has the same one, just vote it up.
Hi Jessie, yes – this topic is very popular now! Obviously, read above for some great answers, but I can’t recommend my Dell Precision M4700 enough. I have a 1TB drive (non SSD for VMs) and a 512 SSD (for my OS). The performance is awesome! In my case I needed space more than speed, so didn’t bother with 2 SSDs.Â
The other main thing to take away (reading this discussion) … get 32 Gb memory. SharePoint 2013 will love you forever. I can give my main vm 16 Gb and still have plenty spin up a 2010 at the same time.

Wow … what a lot of responses!