What laptop is good for Photography?

I'm possibly kind of looking to get a laptop that is a stylish one, good for editing photos, fast, and not like $1000! I'm looking at probably spending around $500 at the most? MAYBE alittle more if I can't find one. So know of any that would be good? Oh I'm also looking at a Nikon Camera. So one that is compatible and good with that.

Any 4GB RAM or higher laptop is perfect for photo editing. Adobe Photoshop runs smooth on nearly any laptop.

Find one that has a i7 CPU and 4 gb of RAM if you can push your budget. I saw one last week for $699 on sale at Fry's Electronics

Remember that you will also need a copy of Lightroom 4 (under $90 if you are a student)

At present, the Nikon D3200 provides the most bang for the buck ($700 with 18-55 mm lens), so visit your local camera shop and take a look at it.

ALL digital cameras are compatible with both Apple and PC computers.

Unless you actually need the portability a desktop or tower will be a much more cost effective bet, you can at least double the spec for the same price, PCs are lots cheaper than Macs, including the Operating System (W7 64bit) and have lots of freeware available for them.

If you can build your own you'll save even more, but it does demand some research on your part, an SSD (Solid State Drive) will increase speed dramatically (Photoshop CS6 opens in <4 seconds), but you'll still need a hard drive(s) for storage, you just install the OS and Programs on the SSD everything else is handled by the hard drive, 128Gb SSD is large enough for most, 64Gb if just a few programs are installed.

Go for a motherboard with USB 3 built into it, it's still in the early days yet, but is capable of 10X faster than USB 2 when properly integrated into a fast computer.

It is to believe that PCs cost less. Because, you constantly have to purchase stuff that is not included. While EVERYTHING that you need is included in a mac from superb/fast graphics cards to a whole suite of great software including decent photo/video software. If you have Windows software you can certainly use that on a dual process.

I would suggest that anyone do some serious research before they plunk their money down for a Windows machine that all too often will crash, hang and drive you nutz. My macs literally never crash or get hung up.

I suggest you to go with PC and think about Mac.