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I have had great success with a generic KVM I found on amzn [0], but it now appears to be …

I have had great success with a generic KVM I found on amzn [0], but it now appears to be unavailable, which is a shame because I wanted to buy another. Perhaps I can find it somewhere else. It has never failed to switch between sources and the only delay, as some others are pointing out, is the HDMI handshake process inherent to the monitors themselves. I did have a considerably more expensive TESmart [1] but couldn't use it because it had some weird incompatibility between it, thunderbolt docking station [2] I used with it (which also work flawlessly), and the MBPs connected to it. I could never figure out why, even raising the issue to support with no luck. My two cents. [0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B088WGKFZH [1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08N494N7X [2] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08HR3T837

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Good KVMs, specifically the ones from Level1Tech[1], are smart enough to keep all monitors connected virtually so all your windows stay in place when you switch back and forth between machines. There is no delay of plugging devices in because from the perspective of the client PCs the USB/display port devices were never gone. Of course you can connect a bunch of peripherals to a dock and switch the upstream thunderbolt connection, but that doesn't work correctly. Crappy KVM solutions are easy. Good ones are hard. [1] https://www.store.level1techs.com/products/hardware (no affiliation)

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For HDMI you have lots of options that provide EDID emulation. For DP there's only one game in town and it costs more than most computers.

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You don't feel skeptical of products from a company called "GREATHTEK-More Convenient"? I am far too paranoid to plug random technology like that into my computers. It makes shopping for such things on Amazon nearly impossible.

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