Instead of sharing my preferences I’ll share my honest opinion on the macs. First of all any mac is great. If this is going to be your first experience on a mac prepare to be amazed by some of the things you’ll encounter.
There are basicly three groups of laptops:
1. The MacBook
2. The MacBook pro
3. The MacBook Air
1.The MacBook has all and more to offer for normal everyday use, internet, games, movies, dvd, build in camera and mic (they all do have that) It’s by far faster than any PC. It runs software to edit video’s without any pain and it handles heavy photoshop files with ease. But forget about 3D. Heavy 3D Games ,if there are any will not be great and modeling would be something best left to do on the MacBook Pro.
2. The MacBook pro, it does all described above and handles pro-software, so 3D modeling would be an option. The MacBook pro is very widely in use with musicians for it’s portability and high capabilities in recording/editing software. Heavy games run well. But then again, there are not many games for Mac.
3. The MacBook Air, great for portability. It’s small lightweight and still does everything a MacBook does. But there were some sacrifices to be made, the optical drive. Apple decided to leave it out. There are ways to run dvd’s /cd’s from other computer by linking it up. Then there’s the hardrive which is smallish and can be extended but at a great cost.
It’s basically a MacBook but smaller, there’s a lot of differences between them but that’s all in the way it’s build and not in the way it performs.