Jeffrey Engle wrote:
I've been looking at some cheap KVM switches on ebay, will they work? or do I need a "mac compatible" version $$$? Jeff
There are no Mac compatible versions. For the most part they should be platform independent.
One that I have has a single button that switches between computers. It is a little weird in that sometimes it skips one computer but the next pass around it selects it.
The other one does have a slight platform dependency. It uses the keyboard to switch between computers. By default it uses a key on the keyboard that isn't on Mac keyboards. But there is a key sequence you can send that changes the activation key.
Both of these switch the VGA and USB. I also have some mechanical switches that only switch the VGA. I have had a problem with these where the video suffers some degradation due to the wiring in the switch and the actual switch. On the electronic switches I haven't seen any signal degradation.
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