Re: AMD laptops
AMD have found themselves at the budget end of the laptop market for a long time.
Their laptop motherboard options have been limited and generally poor, the features they rely on for performance (i.e. memory bandwidth for APU's) has been hamstrung by only utilising one slot and storage tends to be whatever is cheapest.
Having said that, the Bulldozer saga left AMD with pretty poor options for the mobile market. While Intel have made life difficult for AMD in the past, AMD and Global Foundries have been a significant factor too.