I think Workstation would suit your needs a lot better. ESXi is more designed to be installed on a separate piece of hardware.
You could install Workstation on your notebook, then create a few VM's and install any OS you want on those VM's
One thing to keep in mind if you haven't purchased the notebook yet, get lots of RAM and a CPU that has lots of cores. Also, make sure hard drive you get is a decent size as having multiple VM's can chew through disk space fairly quickly
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