[bluedino]

>> What do you need 32GB for?

Massive projects. Or a couple VM's.

The first laptop I saw running a VM was a Dell Precision M50 (?), it was 2" thick and almost 10lbs. It had something ridiculous (at the the time) like 1 or 1.5GB of RAM.

A sales guy was demoing a product to us, and it spun up a Windows 2000 VM for IIS and another for SQL server, it probably took 10 minutes to get started but he could then demo the app through the browser. Sounds silly but it worked.

"But can't you just run it on a server somewhere"

Yes. That'd be cheaper and faster. But at this high end of the market, it might make more sense for some people.