Update [11/26]: Price is now $275 with free shipping.
Best Buy has the Lenovo IdeaPad N585 - 59343747 Dual-Core 15.6" Notebook with Windows 8 for $270 with free shipping. Choose free in-store pickup and get a $25 Best Buy Gift Card.
AMD E1-1200 Dual-Core 1.4GHz, 2GB RAM, 320GB HDD, 6-cell
AMD Radeon HD 7310, 15.6" (1366 x 768) LED, Windows 8 x64
Best Buy has the Lenovo IdeaPad N585 - 59343747 Dual-Core 15.6" Notebook with Windows 8 for $270 with free shipping. Choose free in-store pickup and get a $25 Best Buy Gift Card.
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Advised my uncle to pick up one of these for a budget laptop a couple days ago...spent 4 hours trying to figure out why the heck the upload speed outpaced the download speed (via wifi) by about 6-to-1 (3 Mbps vs. 0.5 Mbps) while other laptops connected wirelessly to the same (brand new) router showed download speeds of over 25 Mbps. A visit to Lenovo forums indicates many Lenovo laptop products with screwy wireless cards that may work properly with some routers and not with others. Sounds like a cheap, crappy wireless card to me...but what do you expect from a sub-$300 laptop? Ran it back to Best Buy and argued with the Geek Squad for awhile before I got it returned.
Looks very similar to the one they had as a BF "door-buster" for $188. Presumably they weren't taking a loss at that price.
@unsichtbaremdann , highly likely you just didnt have it configured accordingly.
@tpsc3crt: highly likely...eh...not so much. Possible...sure. However, any laptop that takes 4+ hours to properly configure the wireless card (by 2 engineers, mind you) is in my book a FAIL. Especially seeing that I found countless others on Lenovo forums that reported the exact same issue and spent days trying to figure out...well, that just doesn't give me any confidence in the hardware. I mean, my wife and I have set up no fewer than 15 laptops (from Gateway, Dell, Toshiba, Compaq/HP and Mac) for ourselves and various relatives over the past year with absolutely no problem in the wifi department. This turd somehow got me, though? Sure...anything is possible (except for me ever recommending any of the Lenovo laptops I read about to anyone I know). My advice: expect to get what you paid for. Maybe you'll be lucky and your router will play nicely with the wifi card...maybe.