Journal Marxist Hacker 42's Journal: Need a recommendation 4
I don't post here often, but I consider the people in my friends and foe list here to be the most intelligent technologists of our age.
Due to a recent forced cleanup, I have regained my home office, and with newer, lighter flat panels rather than old heavy big desk monitors, I wish to create a real home office with as many wall mounted monitors as possible and room for 3-4 laptops, in addition to my keyboard and mouse. Due to carpal Tunnel, I now use two keyboards and a nice trackball, as well as a USB3 based docking station for maximum compatibility and additional video outputs.
What I really need is a 4x3 USB switch. Additional video switching optional. Ability to direct any of the 4 inputs to any of the three outputs, in any combination, allowing me to switch keyboards, mouse, and USB Hub separately.
Anybody have any recommendations for such a beast?
I hope I read it right (Score:1)
If this is what you are looking for:
Cheap [amazon.com]
Expensive, but cool [dell.com]
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Was looking more for personal experience. The cheap one is already on my list.
The official "You're doing it wrong" post (Score:2)
While it won't deal with switching the USB hub, have you considered using Synergy [symless.com] to share mouse/keyboard between the computers? The way it works is you lay out your displays and computers, and tell it when you go off the right side of monitor 2 of PC 1, pass control to monitor 1 of PC 2 and the mouse (and keyboard input) appears there. As a bonus, it can transfer the clipboard between computers too.
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Good thought, but one of the computers is corporate owned (for when I'm working at home) and is thus on a firewalled VPN