What's best for a first year Software Engineer college student?

I start classes at New England Tech at the end of March and I needed help in determining if a MacBook Air would be ok for what I need. Hope there are some Software Engineer's out there who can help decide. Definitely going with a Mac and less is better in regards with money. Thanks in advance.

Here are the computer requirements for the AS program:
"Hardware required (subject to change):
1.5 Gig processor with 1 GIG RAM w/monitor
80 GIG Hard Drive
DVD player
Cable or DSL internet connection
Microphone/headset/speakers (USB preferred)
Web camera
Software required:
VMWare workstation
Qbasic
Windows XP Professional
Office 2003: Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint
Windows 2003 Server
Visual Studio 2005
Other than VMWare workstation, for which there is a $125 cost to students"
Seems like a PC would be more in order. Unless you purchase a MacBook Pro and create a Windows partition

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