Current laptop / notebook with best specifications

[Rutherford]

HI,

After many years using an Asus N76V series Laptop I’m ready to get e new one in the upper class. I would like to try to get the best possible CPU and graphics. Would be nice if the graphic card would work too, since I’m tired to reduce it to my actual HD4000.

11)    Are there any prohibited Intel or AMD CPU’s? What is the highest you can use?

22)   What about the graphics? I know no Iris but does any other built-in graphics card series MAD / Nvidia work?

33) Can you suggest any Notebook examples?

AS always many thanks for your support.

[djuby]

Hi,

I've tried a number of laptops and here is my advice. Stay away from AMD Rysen CPU based laptops. The integrated Vega graphics is not supported in macOS. Pick any 10th gen Intel CPU - i3, i5, i7 or i9 with UHD 620 or UHD 630 graphics. It's better if you can find one without additional AMD or NVIDIA GPU, which you'll have to disable as they are not supported by macOS.

11th gen and up Intel CPUs are not supported by macOS.

Don't get Dell XPS 15 9500 as it has a broken S3 sleep support in the BIOS. The 17 inch XPS models are reported to be working but be careful. I recently tried a Lenovo laptop with 4K display, but I was not able to make graphics work with full acceleration on the laptop display. So, again be careful with 4K laptops. I suggest getting an HP or ASUS laptop as they seem to work well with macOS.

Good luck! 

[Rutherford]

34 minutes ago, djuby said:

Hi,

I've tried a number of laptops and here is my advice. Stay away from AMD Rysen CPU based laptops. The integrated Vega graphics is not supported in macOS. Pick any 10th gen Intel CPU - i3, i5, i7 or i9 with UHD 620 or UHD 630 graphics. It's better if you can find one without additional AMD or NVIDIA GPU, which you'll have to disable as they are not supported by macOS.

11th gen and up Intel CPUs are not supported by macOS.

Don't get Dell XPS 15 9500 as it has a broken S3 sleep support in the BIOS. The 17 inch XPS models are reported to be working but be careful. I recently tried a Lenovo laptop with 4K display, but I was not able to make graphics work with full acceleration on the laptop display. So, again be careful with 4K laptops. I suggest getting an HP or ASUS laptop as they seem to work well with macOS.

Good luck! 

 

Many thanks. I'll see what I can get under these conditions. I understand from your answer I could choose an i10 and a higher UHD as 630 too?

[djuby]

Any 10th gen Intel CPU will be fine.

[Dec_Bra1n]

Go for Asus TUF F15 with 10th gen model everything works accept Sleep