One important thing to have on a Laptop is to be able to boot from Usb. That will enable you to boot other distros on your laptop. Other than the one you have installed on your laptop. Booting from Usb has many functions but one of the best functions is that you can backup your entire hard drive on a usb drive. Then if your laptop crashed wherever you can just insert the usb drive and go on working on your laptop. Its simple but really usefull