Hey guys! I've been through a lot with my new laptop in the past year. I was really excited about a Carrizo chip with full HSA support, so I quickly ordered this as soon as it became available. I customized it on HP's website.

This is my laptop model
HP Pavilion Notebook - 17z-g000
http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c04655126

The manual there lists all the possible selections when I customized it. Mine has:
A10-8700p / AMD Radeon R6 Graphics
AMD Radeon R7 M360 (discrete GPU)
1920x1080
DDR3L-1600-MHz Single Channel Support (8gb)
1 TB HDD
Broadcom Wireless single antenna
Windows 10

When I got it, I quickly realized that single channel RAM was a terrible idea (but who wants to pay HP $70 for a single 8gb stick?) So I ordered my own dual channel ram: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148731
Kind of a bummer that HP wouldn't let me overclock the RAM because APU performance scales pretty well with RAM performance.

For a long time, I had Windows 10 on my laptop and performance was pretty underwhelming. Low frame rates on anything I tried to play and it ran really hot as well. Planning to mostly use it as a developer system, it wasn't a huge deal but just kinda irritating. I then decided to install Ubuntu on another partition. Ubuntu had lots of problems with my laptop. For instance, the screen would randomly start flickering and the display would sometimes never come on, requiring multiple reboots until it randomly decided it was ready to display stuff.

Somewhere along the line, my Windows 10 installation became unbootable. I was able to grab anything I wanted to save from the Ubuntu partition, but I wasn't able to boot to windows successfully. Whenever Windows 10 tried to repair it would always fail. Restoring to a previous version of Windows failed. Eventually I just nuked the Windows partition from Ubuntu. The display problems were still a huge issue on Ubuntu and somehow it got to the point where it would only boot in safe mode. Frustrated, I installed a fresh copy of Ubuntu but still had the same issues. I gave my brother my laptop for a while hoping he could resurrect it. He got rid of the Ubuntu partition and started trying to install Arch Linux. Before he learned how to install it and completed installing, college started and we both haven't had much time to mess with it.