[maxsilver]

> AMD's APUs are good but aren't really that popular with gamers

It would help if you could actually buy them. The external graphics cards were great price-to-performance, but were basically impossible to find for a while (since they were the best at crypto/mining). So most of the people who wanted one, already had to settle for something else.

And all the OEMS are largely locked into Intel roadmaps, so even though AMD integrated GPUs are awesome, it's very difficult to find a laptop that ships with it. A laptop that could be an ultrabook all day, but still game at console-level graphics (1080p 30fps on low settings) would be a huge hit, and the product already exists. Most companies just aren't selling any of it yet (The Dell XPS 9575 being the only widely-available Windows unit I'm aware of).

So, to buy an AMD-powered laptop, you basically have to buy weird low-end hard-to-find laptops from HP or whatever -- even though the market that would best be served by these devices is the mid-range to high-end (ThinkPads, XPS, Spectre, etc).