I find interesting that despite many years of being reminded that DYI market doesn't represent a significant portion of these sales... we are still thinking that individual customers are the one driving the consumption. The one driving this are big OEMs like Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc.
> The one driving this are big OEMs like Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc.
That's why monopoly is a bad thing. It allows manufacturer to pressure the vendor. The reason amd don't sells much in laptop market is extremely simple. Because you can't buy it. These vendors usually have far less version of amd laptop than intel one. And those are usually sells out quickly.
My experiences with trying AMD CPU laptops is that they're not good.
Every time I've tried it in the last 10 years, it's felt like I was teleported into the late 90s PC era - weird bugs in specific drivers that you can find lots of reports of for this specific model and no resolution, heat management that feels like someone in a basement strung things together in 5 minutes and never tested it again, strange failures in "plug and play" support for USB devices that work on every other machine flawlessly with the same cable and device, and don't get me started on Bluetooth. (My favorite ever might be the time that attempting to pair a specific pair of headphones to the laptop shut off every USB port, reproducibly, apparently because the BT adapter was connected over the USB M.2 pins to the root hub, and was crashing in firmware, so both Windows and Linux did the same style of dance of "try to reset it, once that fails, go up a level and turn off the complex to make sure other things keep working"...except up one level was the root.) (Though, to be fair to AMD, that was an Intel BT/wifi chip in an AMD laptop...)
I really want to like and recommend AMD mobile hardware, but every time I've tried it has been a shitshow without fail.
I think this is to an extent also based on the OEM and the level they go to/put in the effort. My AMD framework has been as "plug and play" as my previous Intel laptops (minus me using the wrong version of AMD Adrenalin and their naming scheme being a terrible mess, but that's with non-OEM drivers.)
This is honestly not my experience though. I'd like to know what vendor and model are you using (and get so much problems). Also I don't have experience about heat management issue either. On the other hand, the intel mac I used before is just underpowered and have giant issues about heat management. Every single mac-pro in my office apartmentmet have an early battery fail at really low cycle count. (And it's also just underpowered thus make working painful)
The most recent experience was a ThinkPad T14 G2, which had, in addition to my negative experiences that were not defects, enough hardware defects that they eventually sent me a new Intel model because I had RMA'd it so many times for failures.
I replied to the earlier comment too, but wanted to agree - my AMD (framework 13) has been about as seamless as reasonably possible (Microsoft shenanigans not withstanding.)
