General purposes as in what? Is he going to be compiling, running large programs and such, or is he just going to be checking email and facebook? I'm partial to Intel just because but AMD is a great bang-for-your-buck company. If he won't be doing anything particularly intensive I would go for the AMD.
Arch
Intel Core i7 - 4510U
iHD4400
8GB RAM
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Intel Core i7 - 4510U
iHD4400
8GB RAM
Check here first:
wiki.dolphin-emu.org
