Right now is an incredibly difficult time to make this decision. The direction of Apple and Google is to start using ARM for everything (the same chip used in phones) but practically nothing that matters for infrastructure engineering, security operations, and cloud-native development runs on it including most Docker containers, Kubernetes, and VirtualBox, the most important desktop virtualization software.
These things are a complete disaster:
Seriously, it is just not worth the money to get one of these.
Virtualbox Mac m1 - Apple Community
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253292128
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