Is 128GB big enough for me?

I’m currently studying engineering, I am planning to buy a macbook for studying. But there is a lots of software I need to install into the laptop, such as, Labview, Matlab, mplab, etc. The size of each software is around 5GB. Also, I need to install Windows in to the laptop as some of the software does not get a mac version. It means around 30GB to 50GB for the software, I am not sure how big are the mac os and windows, assume they are 50GB total. Therefore, I only get 28GB or less for other documents? Does the size of software of mac version will be same with windows? And is 128GB big enough for all my software or better get a 256GB version, as I is not upgradable after purchase? 200pounds (178pounds after student discount) can easy to get a 1TB harddrive for saving the documents, but i want to make sure around how many space left if I install all my softwares and oc. Thank you!

Thanks for reply that quick. I think 8GB RAM is enough as the software I used not spending too much RAM. But not sure how many RAM I need if I am using windows with virtual software (such as virtualbox) not bootcamp.
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