MBA upgrades or not?

Hello everyone, I am looking into buying my first Mac and was hoping to get some answers to help me along with my decision. I will be going of to college in the coming months and wanted a laptop that would suffice anything college had to throw at me as well as handle my extracurricular activities. I plan to use the computer as any normal consumer would; with heavy web browsing and YouTube downloads and playbacks as well as typing papers and creating PowerPoint/Prezi presentations. I would like a 13" MBA for the portability, aesthetics, and insane battery life acquired with the new processor and I believe a stock one would have no problem handling what I have listed above but I also mentioned extracurricular activities which, with me being a musician and lyricist I plan to use GarageBand extensively and my girlfriend is a multimedia design major with a minor in web development so I'd imagine she would live to mess around with video editing and such so my question is; should I upgrade the MBA with 8gb of RAM and the 256 of Flash Storage or would the base model be ok? I priced it along with the MBP and the Pro was $20 more after the Air upgrades if I upgraded the pro's flash storage to 256 also as I would have done with the Air. I just like the air for the portability and looks but like the Pro's performance basically. Please any help or information about how the base model Air performs trying to handle GarageBand and video editing would be greatly appreciated.

PlotinusVeritas wrote:
JohnWayneBlazin
So no need to upgrade the intel chip either? I5 to I7 I've heard makes a huge difference
Just the opposite in fact, here are the specs to prove it
ALSO that 12hr batt life is for the I5, NOT the I7
If you are posting results originally posted by ME, stop doing it. Those were tested using some older MBA, not the 2013 version. See here actual i5 vs. i7 results:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7113/2013-macbook-air-core-i5-4250u-vs-core-i7-465 0u/5
" In most situations you get more than a 20% increase in performance..."
And in light usage, the battery life remains identical. In heavy usage i5 can deliver more duty cycles.

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