what do you have now?
personally I'd get a MacBook, it is more powerful and you can take it anywhere with you, but it is more expensive ...
back to your question
the mini is a nice little computer and I think you will be able to do everything you mentioned absolutely fine, but definitely go with 2Gigs of ram, if you could take the 2Gig CPU then perfect
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