MacBook Pro Retina? Or iMac?

I'm starting online classes for my university, I will be doing online classes for two to three semesters to rack up scholarship money and then transfer to a university up here(my family just moved from NC to AK for job opportunities and I came with). I can afford either of these laptops, but I'd like not to spend a ton of money.
I need my computer to handle gaming, web surfing, a TON of Skype(like 6+ hours of Skype a day), streaming, etc.
I typically do a lot at the same time, an example is, I'll be on Skype, playing a game with them through Steam. I need something that can handle all of that.
I don't want a 27" iMac because I believe that's too big and I don't need a screen that big. So I'd be deciding between the 21.5" and either of the MacBook Pro Retina models. I currently have a 13" MacBook the aluminum model and it's really hard doing all of this. I can't play certain games and Skype at the same time without the game lagging extremely bad. I do like the portable aspect of the Retina and I will eventually end up going to actually class and it would be nice to be able to bring everything with me at once. But if I get the iMac I would keep my MacBook instead of giving it to my parents and have both a desktop and a laptop. If I got the Retina I would give the MacBook to my parents to use and when my brother graduates from college in two years the MacBook would be my present to him. It's in amazing shape and would save him a ton of money!
Any suggestions would be appreciated!
Thank you!

Hi, I am from Hong Kong. I have bought a customerized late-2012 iMac 27", but it hasn't been to my home yet
For your case, you will use it for school and games mainly, but not video editing or graphic designing, right? Therefore, I suggest you for buying iMac 21.5" with high sepc one with the following reasons:
First, you have a laptop - MacBook Pro already. Even though you said if you bought RMBP, you would give the old one to your parents, why don't you try to have a Mac desktop - iMac at home? (MacBook Pro+iMac = GREAT !!) That's my personal formula.
Second, although Retina MacBook Pro has a awesome display, please be reminded some games may not support with such a high pixel screen. Thus, the performance may work poorly. On the other hand, for iMac 21.5", it has a 1920x1080 screen, which is suitable for most of the game. Unless you want to learn video editing, photo editing and graphic designing, I won't recommend RMBP to you.
Last but not least, comparing the storage parts, all RMBP models use SSD for storage, but iMac use SATA or Fushion Drive only. It seems RMBP is better than iMac. However, when you consider the minimum volume of iMac, it is 1TB for both SATA or Fushion Drive, which is much greater than the RMBPs with at most 512GB SSD. As a game player, you may download several large-file games, says 2GB to 20GB. A larger volume harddisk will be better. What's more, if you choose the Apple's new technology-Fushion Drive, you will experience the efficiency of opening Apps or Games.

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