How can I move my personal music to my new laptop?

My family has always kept all of our music on our home computer. Now that im going away to university I have my own laptop and I want to move all of my music to my own laptop so my laptop can become my Iphone's home computer for syncing. All of my music is located in one playlist on the home computer. We have a backup of our entire library and a backup of my phone on an external harddrive. I was wondering the easiest way to move al my music to my new laptop?

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See Make a split library portable for some background on which manipulations of the library are valid.
A brief version goes like this:
Copy library files and Album Artwork folder to an empty iTunes folder at the root of a drive, e.g. X:\iTunes
Shift-start iTunes and connect to X:\iTunes\iTunes Library.itl
Change the media folder to X:\iTunes\iTunes Media, do not consolidate files if prompted
Create a smart playlist matching all the rules Playlist is Music and Playlist is not <Your Playlist> (slightly more efficient if everything you want is in that one playlist)
Select this playlist, press Ctrl+A to select all items, then Shift+Delete to delete them, do not send any files to the recycle bin if prompted
Clean out other areas of the library, e.g. Podcasts, Movies, TV Shows, etc.
Use File > Library > Organize Library > Consolidate files to consolidate the stuff you want into X:\iTunes\iTunes Media
Move/copy the folder X:\iTunes to your laptop's Music folder
Shift-start-iTunes to reconnect to the original library
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