I have not purchased any AMD systems personally. I think the price is a large factor for gamers. I'm still in the core2duo 2.0 laptop dark age. Going backwards, I had a Celeron M 1.8 laptop (dead slow), Pentium-m 1.5 (alright), celeron 366 (slow-motion). As I have moved over ten times over the last ten years, all of them were laptops. I predict my next laptop to be a celeron again if I follow my own trend, binary oscillation between cheap and okish with a period of about 5 years.