Need help choosing a laptop for programming (Web)?

Question

macbook

Hello, I need your help, I am a future programmer in a year I will study at the university, I will study php. Before entering, I want to buy a laptop, I think to buy a MacBook Pro with Retina 2013 13.3 "8 GB RAM, will there be a good laptop for studying and programming?

Answer 1

The posing of the question is tricky.
For PHP, of course, no less than a MacBook Pro 2014 with Ultra Retina 17 "16 GB RAM is required.
Now, if Ruby or Python were another matter, then that would be enough.

Answer 2

Will the answer "normal" suit you?

Answer 3

A great. Only from experience I know that in the university without Windows in any way. So take it with a large ssd to give 20 - 40 gigs to a partition with Windows, a second system or a virtual machine, it doesn’t matter.

Answer 4

I will study php.

When will you study Russian? What about English?
PS If anything, I'm not Russian, and not from Russia.