I am wondering if I should get an Intel chip Macbook or M1 chip Macbook considering lot of these docker images may not run(or make life difficult ) on M1 chip. https://armshaming.space/ Also, if I were to buy the intel Macbook, where would that be from? I don't see any sellers selling on Amazon. what do you folks think?

Do you need any of them?

Buying Intel mac is far from sensible at this point, if macOS is not an absolute requirement, buy Windows laptop and use Linux on it.

@bitter-salesclerk-57109 I may need some of them. I see at top of the list, mysql, so I am pretty sure at some point I will need it if not immediately.

2022 will see some really good windows laptops, mostly launching around April, and obviously they'll be much cheaper compared to M1 MBPs.

I may need some of them

Don’t go by may. Be sure. It feels like you’re being over-cautious. I don’t think anyone in this age is going to make software that doesn’t work on latest hardware. Unless you know you work on an ancient system you should be good.

I see at top of the list, mysql,

I don’t think you should follow that list blindly. For example, I use mysql on my m1 through docker and it works. IIRC older versions don’t work but the newer ones do. (I use mysql:8.0.23).

MySQL doesn't have an ARM64 based docker image, but you can specify the x64 platform in the dockerfile. Apple Silicon does a great job of running x64 stuff at a reasonable performance level. This should apply to any other image.

Rosetta performance on M1 is at times faster than x86, unless you're doing something low level that doesn't translate well into emulation. At GitLab, we used Rosetta to develop until we got ARM support ready and we didn't notice any slowdowns.

Been running my whole terminal in rosetta for months and never had any issues about CPU architecture