Would be a great laptop for your schoolwork and editing. On my MBA I was running minecraft perfectly fine on fast graphics. You should be fine, but there is one thing.You would want to bump it up to 8gb of ram and an i7 for the editing. The cheapest MBA is the 11inch 128gb for 899. Adding i7 and 8gb of ram is 250 putting you at 1150. It may be over your budget, but you will not regret the changes.

What exactly would the ram do? Editing isn't a major priority

Just got a new Macbook Air i would highly recommend it!

I would get any laptop that has an AMD processor, they are very good for gaming and all around use. Any HP or samsung laptops is a good buy i would say, i personlly have a HP pavilion and i love it!

Not really good for gaming:

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Better:

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Better for gaMING:

Don't be set on just one brand of computer.
So I make computers I'm just going to dumb it down for most people to understand:

There are really 5 major components to a PC you want to look at when buying

CPU/Processor: This is where most of your money is spent, the higher the processor the higher the price. Right now the best processor out is a i7. Next step down is only a 3% downgrade which most people down know an i5. Now the only thing the i7 does better than the i5 is it allows for Overclocking. But from what you're explaining what you're going to be doing you wont experience that much. Also as well AMD is making great Processors for a cheap price.

Next is your Graphics/Video Card: The Graphics card, or GPU, is a processor specifically designed to handle graphics. It's what you hook your monitor up to, and it's what draws your desktop and your windows on the screen. Some motherboards come with a GPU already integrated, which is enough to manage your desktop, but not enough for watching high definition video or playing 3D games. For those, you'll need a dedicated graphics card, since it can do the legwork needed to draw those complex images.

Next is your Hard Drive: Your hard drives are what store all of your data, ranging from your operating system to your documents, music, and movies. If the RAM is your computer's short-term memory, your hard drive is the long-term memory. It stores the things you want to keep around for awhile.

Your RAM: RAM, or Random Access Memory, is like your computer's short-term memory. It stores data your computer needs quick access to to help your programs run faster, and help you run more programs at one time. if you run a lot of programs at once, you'll want a computer with more RAM. If you use virtual machines, you'll want even more RAM, since it has to run its own programs in addition to yours.

The Motherboard: The motherboard connects all the other components to one another, and is the physical base upon which you build everything else. It contains a lot of your machine's core features, like the number of USB ports, the number of expansion cards you can put in (such as video, sound, and Wi-Fi), and also determines how big your computer will be.

If you have any specific question let me know. I will assist you further.

If you are a college student and have a .edu email you can go to best buy and get $100 off any Macbook.

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The mac is only good for business, and work etc not games but maybe editing