I need help choosing a Macbook

What macbook should I get? I am an online student. I will be using it for class obviously, web browsing, YouTube, also I have to run windows8 (I'm thinking ill use parallels 9) and Microsoft office. I have no idea how much RAM I need? What size hard drive? I have about 20GB of music and photos. Want to be able to run windows and IOS together and computer not freeze up. Help me out?

For your top 3 things, I'd recommend the Air. It does everything really fast, and as long as you're not doing processor- or graphics-heavy things you will find it extremely speedy. Which brings me to games. If you're a heavy gamer you'll want a MacBook Pro with a discreet graphics card. This means you should get a 15-inch model (both retina and non-retina have discreet graphics). But avoid retina if you're a gamer for now, because using retina resolution really strains your graphics card, and not using retina graphics on a retina screen makes the graphics usually look worse.
So - Air for your main applications
And if gaming's important - a 15" non-retina MBP

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