Just bought an Acer Aspire laptop for the girl’s Christmas/birthday at Walmart for $298. 15.6” screen, Windows 7, 200G+ hard drive, 2G AMD processor. Sorry, don’t remember the precise HD and processor specs. I just knew it was more than she’d need for what she does.
Also heard Best Buy has a similar laptop for around the same price but I don’t know any more about it.
YMMV locally.
Thank you