[Andy A.]

For what its worth, my last computer was an HP laptop with an AMD CPU.

I loved and beat the snot out of that computer at the same time. It took a lot of abuse, but I never had any heat related problems. It eventually died when the inverter for the screen died a rather nosy death. It wasn't worth the cost of replacing after 2-3 years of hard life.

The two CPU's are close enough in performance that you might be better off deciding based on other factors, like weight, software package etc. If those are the same regardless of CPU, the Intel sounds like the slight edge.

-Andy A.