Well, personally I don't give a darn as long as it is reliable and meets my needs but I tend to favor Intel by experience.
Over the course of my life, on computers I've had 7 Intel chips, 1 AMD chip, and 1 Motorola chip.
Intel 8088, Pentium I, Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium 4, Pentium D, Celeron D, AMD Sempron Mobile, and a Motorola 6809* chip.
I've also used other peoples machines with AMD Athlon XP and K6-3D chips without being very impressed.
I've mostly had Intel CPUs and I've never had bad things to say, if I was going to buy a new computer I would probably aim for an Intel chip in the E6600 or E6400 range along with a gig of ram.
I would love to try a good AMD box for a gaming machine though.
As far as AMD/Intel goes, given suitably similar hardware I would love to test compile times on AMD and Intels comparable mainstream chips.
Compile a FreeBSD kernel, Linux 2.6, FreeBSD (kernel+world), GCC4.x, and Qt4.x on each machine and note the time it takes from start to finish each one.
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