I was in a more or less similar situation (old 2015 MBP). My main concern with the new Macs were mainly: can I run ubuntu VMs via vagrant? I bought the M1 pro

I was in a more or less similar situation (old 2015 MBP). My main concern with the new Macs were mainly: can I run ubuntu VMs via vagrant? I bought the M1 pro (32GB ram). So far, so good. I'm using Vmware fusion (tech preview) which is free, Vagrant and the vmware plugin (which Hashicorp released for free as well). You can use any of the Vagrant arm boxes available on Vagrantcloud, or if you are like me and don't trust random people's boxes, built your own Vagrant box using, for instance Packer (search on github). I have to say, though, that my requirements regarding VMs are not that advanced (I just want to be able to spin up N VMs, all with custom ip addresses and to mount volumes from the host so that I can write code in my Mac, but execute it in the guest). Edit: performance-wise, the M1 pro is awesome. I'm running 6 Ubuntu VMs, tons of tabs in Safari and Chrome, a couple of Jetbrains IDEs, iterm, YouTube videos, PDfs open, even OpenEmu with a psx game... And the laptop (the 16 inch version) is still cold on touch and I cannot hear the fans.