I feel like these monitors will depreciate in value much faster than their M1 chips. It feels like only yesterday, flat screen TVs were a few thousand dollars. Now, you can get a decent one for a few hundred.
Not sure that is the case. Thunderbolt Displays, the previous equivalent, had extremely little depreciation over their life span—even when higher resolution monitors started to become mainstream. I suspect used versions of these monitors will retail near the new value for a long time.
> Thunderbolt Displays, the previous equivalent had extremely little depreciation over their life span
I recently bought one used. These things got manufactured from 2011 at a MSRP of 999$ IIRC and today still are worth 600€, excluding shipping, on ebay.
The only comparable monitor out there is the built monitor in the Surface Studio. I actually prefer it to the iMac since it has a bit more vertical space (4500x3000 vs 5120x2880). Unfortunately it's not available as a standalone display.
Well, those ones you are talking about are ad-supported. I would not buy an ad-supported display at any price point, so a more reasonable comparison is the “commercial display” flat screens, which are still actually pretty expensive.