Craving the new Macbook pro

One of the problems I have with my current Macbook Pro 15" model is the lack of support for greater than 4 gigs of RAM. It is unofficially supported but I have had limited success with anything over 6 gigs. I need this much RAM in order to support the virtual machines that I run inside of VM Ware fusion - basically, the more RAM I have, the better off I will be. I have heard rumors of support for more RAM in software with the upcoming release of Snow Leopard, but for now, Vista and XP 64 bit can support more RAM than good old Leopard which as you can imagine is fairly annoying.

During the keynote today at MacWorld, Engadget mentioned that the new Macbook Pro 17" unibody model will support up to 8 gig of RAM, however the base model comes with 4 gig. I haven't been able to find any updates or confirmation of this, but it makes me wonder if there is a patch or something coming soon to Leopard that will officially support this. The motherboard and chipset in my current Macbook Pro will support 8 gig of RAM, and basically that is the reason I would upgrade. Of course, having 8 gig of RAM, a 256 gig SSD hard drive and 8 hours of battery would definitely make me want to open up my wallet and lay down some plastic, so hopefully I can resist the urge until I get confirmation on this set up.