There are some pretty decent powered laptop that you can get for just under 300.
At this price, there are 15 inch screen size laptop are available with 4GB RAM and 500 GB memory.
That is more than enough for your daily computer usage and internet surfing.
Check out some of the great laptop available at this price range:
HP – 15.6″ Laptop / AMD A6-Series / 4GB Memory / 500GB Hard Drive / DVDRW/CD-RW / Windows 10 – Black
HP Flyer Silver 15.6 Inch Notebook Laptop (Intel Pentium Quad-Core N3540 Processor up to 2.66GHz, 4GB RAM, 500GB Hard Drive, DVD/CD Drive, HD Webcam, Windows 10 Home) (Certified Refurbished)
HP Flyer Red 15.6-Inch Notebook Laptop (Intel Pentium Quad-Core N3540 Processor up to 2.66GHz, 4GB RAM, 500GB Hard Drive, DVD/CD Drive, HD Webcam, Windows 10 Home) (Certified Refurbished)
2016 Newest HP 15.6-inch Premium Laptop PC, AMD Quad-Core APU 2.0GHz Processor, 4GB DDR3 RAM, 500GB HDD, Radeon R4 graphics, SuperMulti DVD Burner, HDMI, Windows 10
Acer Chromebook 14, Aluminum, 14-inch Full HD, Intel Celeron Quad-Core N3160, 4GB LPDDR3, 32GB, Chrome, CB3-431-C5FM