The most common problems across all types of laptops are:
There is tremendous variation between hardware across laptop manufacturers, and below we list the most common known problems and their solutions.
Most Apple laptops released in the last few years are capable of running BCE, however some older Apple laptops do not support the hardware virtualization required to run a Virtual machine.
While many recent PC laptops support hardware virtualization, some computer vendors disable this feature as shipped from the factory.
If you are familiar with changing settings in your system BIOS, you may try: Enabling Virtualization in your PC BIOS.
However, many older, and even some brand new, PC laptops do not support hardware virtualization at all.
You are likely to have problems if you try to use BCE on these kinds of machines.