My laptop is shot and It is time to start looking into a new one.

I am looking for an afforable laptop and not a mac bc first of all they are $$ and second my father works on my computers for me but is not familiar with macs so I need to buy a computer that he could always fix/upgrade. I have a compaq and it is pushing 6+yrs.

Also, my brother in law offered to give me his brand new i pad bc he never uses it. How is that?

I download tons of pics and like to use photoshop if this makes a difference with laptop recs!

TIA!