Macbook Pro vs Macbook vs Ipad vs HP Mini 5102

Okay, I am a highschool student who is going to be taking one or two college courses and I will be needing a new piece of hardware that would allow me to do alot of computing for my current situation and for future college uses. I would also like to use the hardware as an entertainment device to do thins such as: watch movies, play games, listen to music and etc.

Greetings!
You might wish to ask about MacBook Pros in the forum for the latest versions here:
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=251
The forum you're in now is for MBPs made before late 2008 so they are not as capable as current machines. By repeating the post in the other forum, you will have more people responding who own the current generation.
Posting the type of applications other than entertainment you think you will need will help you get more "targeted" answers. CAD has different needs from word processing, for example. Any of the units you're considering will be fine for browsing.
Older MBPs tend to run hot when running graphics-intensive games. The other forum will get you a better feel of how gaming goes on current versions. If gaming is important, you need to research the current lineup and their graphics chipsets. The lower-end versions have integrated graphics and may not run some games. The upper end version have integrated for battery use plus free-standing for better performance when on a/c power.
I have friends with the smaller netbook-size Windoze notebooks and any of them with a processor under 2gHz seem to crawl with Win 7. They typically use integrated graphics so game performance may be limited.

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