I hope the Mac silicon build of Lightburn is underway. The clock is ticking now.
Around 2004 or 2005, I got a Apple G5 with an IBM PowerPC cpu. They phased it out within a couple of years, seems like less than a year later, you couldn’t even use the browser. It would say to upgrade it, but there was no upgrade path.
Never bought another Apple product again. Did change the G5 over to Debian, for my Linux journey.
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I’m running flawlessly LB on 2 2014 MacBook Pro’s and the latest macOS thanks to OpenCore Legacy Patcher. I took this step with the phasing out of Linux for LightBurn, as the only alternative for me.
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We do have ARM machines in developer hands, for building ARM builds. One of the major barriers is a lack of drivers for CH340 and galvo devices, which is improving day by day as new drivers are released.
CH341 for example works pretty good on ARM devices.
As of yet, we’re not able to give a timeline for native ARM support, but it’s definitely on the docket.
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I might end up in the same boat. I have a newer Mac here, that my wife got through her work. When they let her go, they told her to keep the Mac… She’s a windows user, so I ended up with it.
It’s worth noting that while Apple’s new MacOS releases will require Apple Silicon, LightBurn will continue to work as it currently does via Rosetta in the meantime on our way to ARM-native LightBurn/MillMage. Those Intel Macs just won’t be able to use the new MacOS.
I will always prefer this solution instead Windows OS. I was a little nervous at first, but I had nothing to lose, so I started with the first Macbook and I was sold. I am very surprised how smooth the process was to “patch” the computer and even more so how well everything works on my “new” Macbook Pro. Therefore, there was no doubt about changing the second Macbook as well.
Jack, I can highly recommend it, on a daily basis there is nothing that reminds me that the two computers are from 2014, all “normal” updates that come out are installed as if nothing had happened, that is, my Macbooks are always updated normally, as if nothing had happened.
Right now I still have my Linux Dell Computer from the late 90s as my “Laser Computer”… but that mostly for sentimental reasons 
Thus the motivation for my post - I fear Windows. I will continue running Rosetta until the native silicon version is available.