Honestly, it's not THE reason to avoid Intel right now, it's simply "another" reason", to add to the many others along with being more expensive than similarly equipped AMD based models, OTHER vulnerabilities, many of which DON'T require any physical access, and probably five other reasons that I don't particularly feel like dredging up at the moment. But sure, there are probably at least one or two reasons TO go with Intel as well.
I can't think of any right now other than technically having the edge when it comes to gaming performance, but since that's not a factor here I think we can exclude that one. As far as Mac goes, pffft. You can have it. All of it.
I have several clients with Macbooks from the last few years. There's only one semi-legitimate reason to have one, and that's if you have to do a lot of epeen measuring amongst your peer group, who are themselves in a class of people I'd never associate with on my personal time anyhow. Every one of the people I know who own them, wish they had bought something else. Every. One.