Macbook pro Vs Macbook Air for English Student

I'm debating on which computer to get! I'm currently and 3rd English student and still have a few more years to go. I am wondering which would be better for me. I write a lot of essays and aside from that, I generally use a computer for internet browsing and e-mail. Can someone help me out on this decision?

I'm a write and I use the MBA. I had a MBP for years that was solid and dependable. But I use my computer primarily for writing books, so I generally use MS Word, Safari, iTunes, Mail, Skype occasionally, and other small programs. I also we web design so I sometimes use Dreamweaver and Photoshop. I've found that the MBA handles everything I need it to brilliantly.
People will tell you that the MBP is faster and that the MBA internals are old tech (specifically the processor), and technically they're right. However, the MBA is optimized for speed. The solid state drive is so much faster than the HDD that comes standard in a MBP at opening programs and loading documents. Unless you're doing video editing or photo editing or any other processor intensive tasks, you more than likely simply will not benefit from the faster processor in a MBP.
Like the other poster said, spend some time at the Apple store playing with both. I got the maxed out 11" with the 128SSD, 4gb RAM and the 1.6GHz processor. There are tricks to keeping your disk space, such as using IMAP for your email if your mail server supports it. That way none of my email resides on my computer, and keeping my video on an external hard drive. My music takes up the lion's share of my disk space (60gb) but after I installed all my programs (keeping my documents on a cloud service and backed up on an HDD) I still have 35gb left.
I spent a couple of months going to the Apple store to play with the machine. I did everything I would conceivably do with it and it performed admirably. In the end, for me, the trade off in portability versus computing power, portability won out.
Good luck.

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