Get Lenovo, I had a Lenovo with 610m VGA 1 gig memory, CPU i5, 500 gigs hdd, 4 gigs rams, got it for like 600$ including VAT, now it's like 300-400$.
New Lenovo's are around 500-600$ with 8.1 + i7 CPU + 4-8 gigs rams, VGA memory 2 gigs, so it's pretty good.
HP is bad as mentioned above, toast machine, I don't recommend other laptops.