Im plotting to buy my first guitar soon and i am leaning towards the acoustic guitar, i was looking online and i found there was such thing as an electric acoustic guitar, now i am caught in between both, which one should i get and what is the difference.

Other than the obvious that the acoustic/electric can be plugged in. If it were unplugged would it sound the same as a regular acoustic guitar? In other words, if I had an acoustic guitar and the same model of the guitar came out as acoustic/electric would they sound/play the same unplugged?