Dev::Blog :: Switching again (kindof)

{ 2007 10 28 }

Switching again (kindof)

My home PC is at the point where it needs to be rebuilt - things are crashing and stalling all the time, and it’s just not a fun experience overall.At the same time, we’ve got an old dual-G4 mac kicking around that’s only being used for video work, so I went out and got a Belkin Flip for KVM and wired it up.The downside is that I don’t have a dual display solution anymore. In theory I could keep the PC with two monitors and toggle one of them between the Mac’s VGA and the PC’s DVI when I want to switch, but at the moment I like the simplicity of a single button click so I’ve got one monitor showing OS X and the other on XP, so I can see what’s going on in both at the same time but only have one monitor available for each. For now that seems like a better idea than to drop down to just one monitor (can’t see as much, and I still have the option to use both for the PC when I need to).Of course, the other fun part is remembering setting from a computer that hasn’t been used as a primary in at least a year or two - copying apps from the other Mac I used to use, remembering settings, and waiting 300 years for Mail.app to get going with my somewhat larger-than-then IMAP folders.