I'd buy one in a second if only it would support running vmware fusion - I still have to have one foot in Windows world, and not being able to spin-up and old windows vm is a deal breaker for me. (M1 chips won't support it).

Sure hope my latest macbookpro with intel chip lasts a while, I fear it may be one of the last ones they make.

Have you tried Parallels?

It works incredibly well on the M1 macs.

https://www.parallels.com/

https://github.com/utmapp/UTM

I use native virtualisation to run Debian arm64 and emulation to run Debian x86-64