Macbook pro retina configuration questions

Hello to the community. I am on the market for a macbook pro retina 15 .I am student at university. So my main uses are word, excel,powerpoint ,web surfing, presentations and some gaming . Also i am interresting in amature photo editing. I want to be able to run some games in my free time like CoD 4 and WoW and some new (?) maybe. To be clear gaming is not my priority ofc but the macbook will be used as main computer at the moment. Cause of my budget i am wondering what is more usefull for me: upgrading to 2,6 Ghz or 16 gb ram. To be honest i want both but it's difficult. It's a a major investing for me and planning to keep it for  at least 3 years. Opinions? Keep in mind that ill use an external hard disk so 256 flash storage is not an issue.
Thank you in advance

I personally don't think you need either of those upgrades. I currently use mine for those exact reasons plus more cpu intensive programs and it works fine at the lowest configuration.

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