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How many consumers are doing much more than streaming HD video on their laptops anyway? How many are utilizing GPGPU or playing games? A minority...
A simple 160 shader iGPU @ 400 MHz can cover the majority and lower idle AND load consumption very considerably.

Khm... you forgot hardware accelerated youtube (HD). are there many people who never used it? Probably everybody uses it...
Almost everybody these days uses gpu just for web browsing. And, the more shaders, the faster page rendering. In many cases only GPU can help to browse comfortably, say in netbooks, tablets, and many desktops.
And it is not just wideo accelerated, many other things.
opera_hw_accelerated.jpgchrome_hw_accelerated.jpg

Also, don't forget, starting from Windows Vista, all windows also hardware accelerated whenever you just move some window.