Which MacBook should I go with?

I would go with the 13 inch Macbook Air. This would be best purchased through the Apple Online Store rather than from a retail store, as you can custom configure it with a 1.7 gigahertz core i7 processor and up to 512 gigabytes of flash storage. The faster processing power is recommended as Windows can be resource heavy.

Unless things have changed since I bought mine, and I haven't heard anything suggesting they have, the 13 inch air does have an SD card slot.

Unless you really need heavy processing power, I'd go with the air. The SSD makes the Mac pretty speedy even with only a 1.7 GHz dual core processor. It's very easy to carry around and you should never have any trouble with battery life as you travel around (except maybe if you have to do a lot of heavy Windows usage). In terms of hard drive space to store your media, you might save some money if you opt for a 256 gb hard drive and just purchase an external for that, but that's up to you.

I would go for the mac book pro, because it generally has more processor power and if you are planning to keep this laptop for a long time, you'll probably be better of buying a pro. Also if you would like to install windows, go for a 8 gb ram version, because I have 4 gb ram and windows doesn't perform very well and crashes because of a lack of memory.

I used to have an air. However, I changed to a pro after a year of trying to run Windows and XCode. I found that the air tended to overheat when running VMWare with Windows inside. Other reasons I changed to a pro include voiceover studdered and lagged every time you did something, XCode ran very slow, 4GB of memory didn't help much, and I always had a 1TB HD plugged in. My pro has 8GB of memory, a 256GB flash drive, an I7 4700U 2.6GHZ processor (quad core), and can deal with anything I throw at it, with the exception of a textbook or a brick when I get ticked off at it... Aside from that, the thing is almost indistructable, and the battery will last around 36-40 hours before I have to charge it again. I am also in an IT degree, MIS to be exact. The pro is still light. Mine is under 3LBS, and is under an inch thick.

I also say go pro, for your needs the pro has more processor power and will simply last longer. The 13 pro is not that much bigger and heavyer than the Air. As suggested upgrade the ram to 8 GB and upgrade the storage space to whatever you can afford bigger obviously better.

Hi. The pro for me is what i got when I needed to replace this one, don't ask, elbow and a drink, oops? ;) seriouslythough, the non retina models have a cd drive, the new ones do not. Yes I know it's possible to install most things with a digital fie, but I want to give you all the facts, There are two usb ports, a firewire port, ethernet port, thoguh I use wifi, and the power button is different. On the non retina model, the power button is a round button, top right of the keyboard, no chance of pushing it accidentally. The new moels, turn on withthe key to the right of F12. Not saying anything is wrong but i know me, and I might hit that and not mean to. Can't remember the config of this one, I know it's eight gb of ram, and I think seven twenty gb hard drive. If you go with a retina model, that's ifne just thinking you might save a little money. Also see if you can get a discount buying the mac from your school store, apple has taxes for online purchases.

Get as much memory as possible. You can give Windows 8 and the Mac 8. Aside from that, 8 isn't any different than 16. My Mac uses 1GB on a normal day, sometimes less.

I would go for the pro. As others have said it has more processing power, and I feel its generally better for running vms than the air. By the way for windows, you may want to go with a vertual machine. Bootcamp is an option, but i wouldn't r recommend it, especially if the mac comes with a touchbar