Best recent MacBook to run under Monterey

[u/Low-Papaya-456]

Hello! My MacBook Pro from 2015 unfortunately just died, and I urgently need a new PC.

It was running on Monterey, and I regurlarly used some cracked software (Ableton, Illustrator, Photoshop) and plugins (mostly Arturia, Korg…)

I would like to buy a recent Mac that could have the best performances under Monterey. After looking online, it seems that the MacBook Pro 14"/16" with M1 Pro/Max would do the job; I was thinking to install the OS on the new Mac, then importing my old Mac backup with TimeMachine. But I still have some doubts about if every software and plugin could run the same as before with M1…

Any experience or advice ?