Laptop Choices

Hello all,

So, I am planning on buying a new laptop. I have a couple of choices of possible Hackintoshes:

Choice 1 :

Acer Predator Helios 500 AMD

  • AMD Ryzen 7 2700 processor Octa-core 3.20 GHz
  • 17.3" Full HD (1920 x 1080) 16:9 IPS
  • Radeon RX Vega 56 (8GB HBM2)
  • 16 GB, DDR4 SDRAM
  • 256 GB SSD 144 screen No thunderbolt 3

1900 usd

Alienware area 51m

  • 9th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-9700 8 core
  • Windows 10 Home 64bit English
  • NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 2060 6GB GDDR6 (OC Ready)
  • 16GB, 2x8GB, DDR4, 2400MHz
  • 1TB (+8GB SSHD) Hybrid Drive 144 screen

2000 usd

Razer blade 15

9th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-9750H 6 Core (2.6GHz/4.5GHz) Graphics NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 2060 (6GB GDDR6 VRAM) Display 15.6" Full HD 144Hz, 100% sRGB, 4.9mm bezel, factory calibrated Storage 512GB SSD (NVMe) + empty 2.5" (SATA, 7mm max. thickness) Memory 16GB Dual-Channel (8GB x 2) DDR4 2667MHz USB & Thunderbolt 3 USB 3.1 Gen 1 (USB-A) x3, Thunderbolt™ 3 (USB-C) Wireless Intel® Wireless-AC 9560 (802.11a/b/g/n/ac), Bluetooth® 5

2000 usd

And the failsafe :

Macbook pro

  • 1.7GHz quad‑core 8th‑generation Intel Core i7 processor, Turbo Boost up to 4.5GHz
  • 8GB 2133MHz LPDDR3 memory
  • 256GB SSD storage
  • Retina display with True Tone
  • Intel Iris Plus Graphics 645
  • Two Thunderbolt 3 ports
  • Touch Bar and Touch ID
  • Backlit Keyboard - US English

Needs :

256 SSD 77 USD Enclosure razer core x 300 usd AMD Radeon RX 5700 329 usd 16 GB RAM

The Acer Predator Helios 500 in my mind would be a great candidate for running Mojave and possibly Catalina, as per the AMD GPU. The Alienware and Razer are potential choices merely on the upgradeability via Thunderbolt 3, but I am not certain if they still have the Intel Graphics chip inside, where I can turn the discreet GPU off from bios. The failsafe option is the Macbook pro, but considering the price of a quad core i7 on top of the needed upgrades to make it a gaming system, it would be rough. If I buy one of the potential hackintoshes, I can see how they would be powerful enough to run OSX via a virtual machine in Linux. What do you guys think?

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