@Agent Smith:
Review author here. Thanks for your comments!
The SSD mentioned referred to the HP Pavilion 15-aw004ng:
https://www.notebookcheck.net/HP-Pavilion-15-aw004ng-Notebook-Review.177245.0.html. The model we reviewed in that article is equipped with an M.2 SSD. HP's naming convention made that statement pretty confusing, as this is the HP 15 and that was the HP Pavilion 15.
I agree with you. The current AMD APUs are stretched too thin. Wait for Ryzen CPUs and APUs based on that architecture, which should hopefully create an interesting value proposition.