I'm guessing you shouldn't run into big memory limitations in the near future at a minimum. What's the rest of the specs (i.e. hard drive, video card)?
Well I do have a use of the 32GB of memory, I'm running a few virtual servers now at the moment, each with 8GB memory, probably this is minimum, thinking one of them runs Oracle12c database and soon SQL Server 2012...
I took away the optical drive and replaced with a physical hard disk, so I do have a 250GB SSD and a 500GB HDD, run all my virtual machines off the SSD
Quite well spec'ed laptop, I really thought about Mac book pro, but they don't support 32 GB memory so Apple was out for me.....
It's not the lightest of PC*s though