If you are just gonna be using using it for college purposes like just some pdf , movies , and some word , browsing and stuff I would suggest you to go with M1 MacBook Air 8GB/512GB (If you want more storage since you are gonna be using it for 5yrs)and way lower in price now and worth it for that purposes , But if you are gonna be using it for video editing , building projects and stuff, then for sure u need 16 GB RAM atleast so if budget permits go for m3 16GB 512 / 256 else maybe try M1 or m2 cause there is marginal difference that most people might notice in real life