Paul,
I decided to go with same one, but the 16G of RAM and 512G of SSD. $1,499 minus corporate discount I get.
It sucks that it won't be available for almost 3 weeks with shipping.
I could pick one up today at BestBuy, but it'll be few hundred bucks more and they won't price match even retail HP's prices.

These two are identical:
[Link: store.hp.com]

[Link: bestbuy.com]