Agreed you can get away with 8GB still but value for money is at the 16GB Level. I own both Vertex4 and Corsair SSD's. I like them both, and also agree 120GB is enough. The corsair drive is faster - Vertex4 is not as fast as Vertex3 but it is more reliable.

And you can all harp on that Windows 7 is better, but I will never ever agree. People that dont like Windows 8 are more often than not, too ignorant to learn to use the MetroUI. Windows 8 is built with memory management components from Windows Server, it IS that much better than 7.