I recommend the HP 15-ba037cl. You can either get it at Sams Club or at the link I provided. It has a 2.4ghz cache instead of 1.8. It uses one 8gb ddr4 ram card (2 slots available) It has a AMD A10-9600P (instead of 8700P) The one I have uses a 1TB 5200RPM hard drive instead of an SSD but it can easily be upgraded (I upgraded to a 1TB SSD)
Here is a link to the amazon link:
https://goo.gl/bQbJRT
It is cheaper than what you mentioned but still is great. I love the laptop and I use it every day for school. The keyboard is great and feels a little mushy but I feel like that is common with laptops unless you pay over $500 for a laptop. It has a nice amount of ports on it and comes with ok speakers. It is fast and doesn't have any sort of...