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2013-04-17 10:18 AM

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I have a mac mini from 2010 that I use for a home computer and I want to set it up with dual monitors and I know how to do this but was curious if anyone knew if I could share those two monitors with a Win 7 box as well? I am required to have a windows machine dedicated for work. I cannot use any sort of VM on the Mac. For space sake, I want to just use some sort of KVM of some sorts but was curious if anyone had any success doing something similar to this?

2013-04-17 10:29 AM
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 . http://www.iogear.com/product/GCS1744/  . I'd shop around or call IOGear and see if you could do it for less.

2013-04-17 10:40 AM
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The KVM won't care that it is a Mac & a PC... it just switches signal paths.  It'll work just fine, but to be able to switch both monitors, you'll either have to use two KVM's or find one that supports dual-monitor switching.
2013-04-17 7:31 PM
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As the others have mentioned KVM.

If your monitors have dual inputs you could do DVI to one and VGA to the other to avoid spending anything.  You'd just have to toggle the input on each monitor when you wanted to switch.

2013-04-17 8:06 PM
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you folks are blowing my mind!  Dual monitors?  Just curious, I haven't the foggiest why 2 monitors are necessary.  Someone help this non-techie understand.  Thanks.  

btw, Tony, thanks for the advice in my earlier thread.  The external hard drive is great.  Thank you sir.

 

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