I know. Too late now though, as I bought one. Largely just internet browsing. Sometimes I mess with Access or other things like that. My program analyst major will probably have me playing with multiple languages. I think my Viao can handle anything I can throw at it.
edit- My old laptop was fine, it just didn't have an hdmi out. I have a nice tv, and I want to be able to watch some hi def movies on it. I paid $1000 for it about four years ago, so its really nothing special. Probably something like an i5, 2 gigs of ram, I don't think it has a video card.
edit- I upgraded to an i7 with a video card, 4 gigs of ram, much larger 500 gig hard drive.