Yeah, forgot to tell you. I went ahead and bought 8gb from crucial online and installed it. They did ship it pretty quick so no complaints so far.
Now I need to pick up some more storage. The virtual simulator I'm working on requires about 60GB of disk space for each template. Our laptops only have about 200gb and I don't want to delete that much stuff from there to make room. Looks like Staples has the WD 1TB for sale today in the paper for $59.