I think brute-force is a very bad strategy here.
I would stick with dictionary attacks (-a 0) and only if you are sure about a very specific pattern or did already try all possibilities (likely passwords) and want to manipulate them a little bit, you could use a small set of rules (https://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=rule_based_attack) together with the -a 0 dictionary attack.
btw: cracking with a notebook is also amongs the worst things you could do here, not only because you could damage your notebook, but also because the performance will be bad because of throttling and temperature issues.
I would stick with dictionary attacks (-a 0) and only if you are sure about a very specific pattern or did already try all possibilities (likely passwords) and want to manipulate them a little bit, you could use a small set of rules (https://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=rule_based_attack) together with the -a 0 dictionary attack.
btw: cracking with a notebook is also amongs the worst things you could do here, not only because you could damage your notebook, but also because the performance will be bad because of throttling and temperature issues.