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.
