These laptops look simple, capable and don't stand out in any particular way.
These laptop have got the traditional corporate look and will definitely blend in within the enterprise environment.
These laptops will make a great side-kick to you music production gear. Their multi-core processors give you the necessary muscle to rip, encode or convert your audio craft without having to wait forever. Also, their on-board audio chips and high resolution screens offer a competent and mobile deputy to your existing tools and setup.
As a student or researcher in the social or physical sciences, these devices provide a good balance of portability and performance so that you're free to roam the labs or libraries with a machine that can competently multi-task your data crunching, "multi-tabbed browsing" and the production of academic content.