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This is great. The Holy Grail of work/personal computing setups IMO. Too bad it’s so expensive. I wish a KVM switch was a standard component of normal priced monitors these days. Especially one that also routed through all your peripherals, speakers, and everything.
The monitor with the specs I wanted was $201[2]
I solved the multi-computer-to-multi-monitor problem with a Level1Techs KVM[1]. The price (~$500 for the variant I purchased) initially gave me pause, but the longer I've had it, the happier I am with my decision. It handles all the switching at the hardware level and thus has no perceptible lag for video or anything else. I'm able to connect a single set of peripherals, in my case, two monitors, a keyboard, a trackb…
Isn’t the answer buy a kvm switch? If yes this could have been really short
Personally i prefer two computers, two monitors, one mouse/keyboard. Deskhop has been a lifesaver https://github.com/hrvach/deskhop
For macs, if you're signed into the same Apple account on both, you can "share" the same keyboard and mouse across them. It does tend to be finicky - sometimes it just refuses to connect, and won't tell me why, and sometimes it'll forget the arrangement. And it requires you to be signed into one account on two machines, which some people may not want to do on corporate laptops.
If someone wants to know I have an MSI MPG 491C QD-OLED.
One connects with Thunderbolt only. The other connects with Display Port for video and USB-C for the rest of the built-in dock.
It's OK most of the time with the nipple switch. My one piece of advice is *avoid HDMI*. I learned after getting this monitor that the HDMI protocol is a petulant unstable little shit that does not tolerate renegotiation well. Get yourself a USB-C to DisplayPort cable.
now we need the same for two macs !
Isn’t the answer buy a kvm switch? If yes this could have been really short
Depends on what class of monitor you want to run it with. A KVM that can handle 4K 144hz VRR is... not cheap, if available at all.
It's supported by the relatively old HDMI 2.1/DisplayPort 1.4 standards - it shouldn't be that hard to find a KVM that can do this.