Of course, Intel is "better" since they are bigger and more expensive. But if people don't need the newest top notch thing AMD is alright. It's not like normal office PCs suffer from an AMD (and make companies lose much time while working and thus losing money). The world needs AMD to have another "big" name besides Intel. They have pushed Intel some times in the past and outperformed them with clever clones.
Just depends on your PC using which one is fully better for you.
| BHR-3 said: my CPU process in the task manager has yet to go above 25% while using the laptop [...] |
That's probably why (quad core). Most software doesn't work with multiple cores at all and OSs barely start to. It's great we have this nowadays but developers can't really handle it. Writing algorithms that work is quite easy. Writing them to work with two or even more cores to speed up is a crazy hassle. The OS alone won't help putting the commands on multiple cores if the code is not written for it.
