KVM Recommendations
 

Afternoon/Evening all,

Here's the deal, I'm setting up my home office and I'm going to have a fair bit of kit and, as always, there isn't an over abundance of room, so a KVM would be nice.

It's got to be at least a four port KVM and it has to support USB equipped Apple Macintosh computers as well as USB/PS2 equiped PC's.

I understand Mac and PC keyboards are different, so it might not be possible to have a single KVM to control Macs and PC's, due to the differences.

Also, when it comes to PS2 I know it's possible to get male/male (or is it female/female) calbes, as I have some, but I've not seen similar USB cables (flat end to flat end, rather than small square to small square end), are there such things?

TIA

Having a think about this further...

If I have a standard KVM (PS/2 inputs and outputs), one assumes I could use the male/male cables I've got and on one end have an adaptor which is ps/2 female to usb male (I think such an adaptor exists, or am I mad?) and then plug that little chappy into the Mac, thus meaning I can get a cheapo PS/2 KVM without USB on it. Does that sound about right?

Hi mate,

My job is a full time pro magician.

I am working this week for a company who specialise in KVM, in fact I tak about it at their trade stands and get the prospects to watch my magic as i deliver the key usp's.

I would recommend checkoing out the brand: AVOCENT on the net. In fact I have the perfeck link for you at: http://www.avocent-europe.com/web/uk...meset_European



I never thought I would hear the Keyboard Video Mouse terms on this Scooby site.

All the best mate.

Magicdudey

TIA[/QUOTE]

I've not used the Belkin OmniView with Mac's but they are on the supported list (along with PS2>USB cables). In a pure PC environment I've not had any complaints from customers.

i use omniview 8 port here too.

cables can work out a fair whack though, so watch out when ordering and shop about.

I've got a Belkin Soho KVM: http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProdu...FSohoSeries%2F

This works well with my laptop (USB), Mac (USB) and top desktop machines (both using PS/2 I think...) - switches audio, video, USB, the lot...

FYI I use a wireless PS/2 connected keyboard and mouse - which works fine with the Mac (Mini) and all of the PCs... no problems as the keys map across quite painlessly.

Shades