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Ah, ok....I guess I just watched a lot more porn back when I was using Intel

Though wait, there was that Acer I used that went blue screen straight out of the box!! Pre-installed 3rd party software?

Potentially, bad hardware is another possibility (usually bad ram or something).

But good hardware running core OS should never crash. It's when you start introducing third party software and drivers from 100,000 developers.