Notebookcheck has reviewed a number of 7840U and 155H laptops at this point. Performance is roughly on par between them so I think you can basically choose whichever color you like.
- The AMD board is $50 cheaper and you can buy it now vs pre-order
- The AMD board has its known issues vs the new Intel board’s unknown issues.
- Presumably the Intel board will have 4 x TB4 vs AMD’s 2 x USB4
- 7840U has more mature drivers for real-world gaming perf but the 155H outperforms on video encoding/decoding
- Maybe niche (but what I’m focused on these days), but you can get ROCm running on the AMD iGPUs, although Intel has been working hard on ipex-llm. Both iGPUs are memory-bw starved though and subpar for modern AI workloads (personally, I’m most excited for Strix Halo on that front)