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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.

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.

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CGamesPlay 5y ago
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.
samsolomon 5y ago
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.
- mschuster91 5y ago
  > 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.
alphabettsy 5y ago
Maybe. The non-Retina Apple Cinema Display which I believe is over a decade old still sells for $200-300+ used. The Thunderbolt Display even more. The 5k iMac came out in about 2015 and still no other company sells an equivalent 5k monitor other than the LG/Apple monitor.
- saiya-jin 5y ago
  there are 8k monitors out there
- newaccount74 5y ago
  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.
bluedino 5y ago
The LG 4/5K monitors from the 2015/16 era were this expensive
parkingrift 5y ago
It's actually quite difficult (or impossible?) find to find a monitor similar to this. - 27" - 5k - Thunderbolt with 96W power delivery - Webcam built-in - Functions as a USB-C hub I have been looking for this exact monitor but gave up and went with a widescreen and a dock.
- rsynnott 5y ago
  The only one would be the Ultrafine 5K (though this has poor availability at this point).
rsynnott 5y ago
These cost $1500. In 2016, 5K monitors were... about $1300-$2000. There has not been much movement.

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CGamesPlay 5y ago

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.

samsolomon 5y ago

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.

mschuster91 5y ago
> 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.

alphabettsy 5y ago

Maybe. The non-Retina Apple Cinema Display which I believe is over a decade old still sells for $200-300+ used. The Thunderbolt Display even more. The 5k iMac came out in about 2015 and still no other company sells an equivalent 5k monitor other than the LG/Apple monitor.

saiya-jin 5y ago
there are 8k monitors out there
newaccount74 5y ago
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.

bluedino 5y ago

The LG 4/5K monitors from the 2015/16 era were this expensive

parkingrift 5y ago

It's actually quite difficult (or impossible?) find to find a monitor similar to this. - 27" - 5k - Thunderbolt with 96W power delivery - Webcam built-in - Functions as a USB-C hub I have been looking for this exact monitor but gave up and went with a widescreen and a dock.

rsynnott 5y ago
The only one would be the Ultrafine 5K (though this has poor availability at this point).

rsynnott 5y ago

These cost $1500. In 2016, 5K monitors were... about $1300-$2000. There has not been much movement.