> Almost nobody in their right mind (except gamers) would buy an Intel CPU
I recently was at a computer shop (looking for keyboard repair) and someone brought in their PC because it kept freezing, ended up they are getting a new PC and even when the salesperson recommended an AMD based PC the guy said that he didn't want to because he didn't have good experiences with AMD. Mind you that PC had an Intel 6000 series CPU in it, so best case that experience likely is 10+ years ago.
I wanted to buy an AMD laptop for my work, but as soon as I read about AMD CPUs are running hotter than Intel, I decided to stay with Intel.
Because I run on Intel since 20 years and I know what I get when I buy one. With AMD I can't be sure and I don't have the time to find out. Just give me a working laptop, I don't care about benchmarks.
Dunno. With quality laptops, the fiddliness of the platform is the laptop manufacturer's problem. My AMD Thinkpad is just as dumb (basically no performance-related options, but the preset is fine) and reliable as my previous Intel Thinkpads. And there's no reason why a CPU would run hotter at the same power consumption and cooling solution. Probably different biases in the thermal sensors or whatever.
I recently was at a computer shop (looking for keyboard repair) and someone brought in their PC because it kept freezing, ended up they are getting a new PC and even when the salesperson recommended an AMD based PC the guy said that he didn't want to because he didn't have good experiences with AMD. Mind you that PC had an Intel 6000 series CPU in it, so best case that experience likely is 10+ years ago.
I kinda died inside while standing there.