Reddit reviews Acer Aspire V5-561PG-6686 15.6-Inch Touchscreen Laptop (Gray)
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Intel Core i5-4200U 1.6 GHz (3 MB Cache)8 GB DDR3L SDRAM500 GB 5400 rpm Hard Drive15.6-Inch Touchscreen, AMD Radeon R7 M265 GraphicsWindows 8.1, 4-hour battery life
The Acer V5-561G has a dedicated AMD M265 GPU which is about equal to a GT 730M in performance. This is a pretty good laptop for the money, as it has an i5 4200U processor (though weaker than the 4200M), 6GB ram, 1366x768 15.6" screen and 500GB HDD.
There is also an 8GB touchscreen version for $600, and the extra ram might be helpful for your Lightroom needs.
Acer Aspire V5, 15":
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00I0NYKL4/
Acer E1, 14":
http://www.amazon.com/Acer-E1-472G-6844-14-Inch-Laptop-Keyboard/dp/B00HC349I2/
Here are two laptops which would be better:
All these have dedicated GPUs, thus will run games much better than one of the HP laptops you linked.