Best Laptop Computer

I Am Starting College In A Couple Months And I Need To Buy A New Laptop Computer; However, I Am Not Sure Which Is The Best To Buy. I Will Need It To Write Reports And Work On Projects. I Also Plan To Take A Lot Of Multimedia And Film Studies Classes That Will Require Me To Make And Burn My Own DVD's So It Needs To Be Able To Do That. I Currently Have A Sony Vaio But I Need A Better One For College. Please Help, Thanks!