AMD is a better option due to better price per performance per watt, mainly. There's also the added advantage of voting with your wallet against a stagnating fo

AMD is a better option due to better price per performance per watt, mainly. There's also the added advantage of voting with your wallet against a stagnating former near-monopoly that abused its market position (they were fined for paying OEMs to only advertise Intel-based devices, but weirdly to this day Dell still continues to put Intel based devices much more prominently than AMD ones). Regarding Thunderbolt 4, I use my Thunderbolt monitor with my fully AMD-based Asus ROG Zephyrus which is only "USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C" compatible and everything works. But i can understand that it can be a crapshoot on cheaper laptops, but isn't that the same on Intel-based cheaper laptops? If they're cheap, they probably cheaped out on getting the Thunderbolt certification.