Minimum System requirements

Thank you Ted,

I find with running much else, like having several pdf's open, browser, and whatever else running it is good to have 16gb ram. We will be buying a computer for my use soon and now I can find something less costly and not feel like I have to get an 8 core. I like a trackball by the way! five button wireless Logitech.

We go for Dell laptops here.  We find them the easiest to maintain as we do the IT support ourselves.  I would say Asus is my budget brand of choice now from what I have seen of there new offerings.  

16GB is a good bet to future proof especially.

One thing I think is a must these days is an SSD drive, makes a huge difference to navigating between files etc...  One thing not everyone knows is that programs offload memory to file on hard drive (in Windows it's called a pagefile.sys) when they are using a lot of ram, this is unlikely on 16GB laptop but can still.  So an SSD drive can actually speed up the read\write of the pagefile.sys.