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1 HN user recommended this between 2022 and 2024, in 2 comments.
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1 HN user recommended this between 2022 and 2024, in 2 comments.
Each tall tick is one HN user's first recommendation. A short tick is the same user again. Click a tick to jump to the comment.
I have some knockoff brand off of Amazon, but it has full HDMI EDID emulation so stuff doesn't move around when switching screens. The input switching is about 2.5 seconds or so. The listing [0] looks scammy, and I thought so too when I bought it, but it works -much- better than the previous unit I had from Tesmart, which had generally good reviews but didn't work at all for my purposes, and it was like 40% of the price. I took the plunge on this one as the Tesmart didn't behave nicely with my thunderbolt docks hanging off my various mac laptops, which was extremely, maddeningly frustrating to not have it work all the time.
[0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B088WGKFZH
I have had great success with a generic KVM I found on amzn [0], but it now appears to be unavailable, which is a shame because I wanted to buy another. Perhaps I can find it somewhere else. It has never failed to switch between sources and the only delay, as some others are pointing out, is the HDMI handshake process inherent to the monitors themselves.
I did have a considerably more expensive TESmart [1] but couldn't use it because it had some weird incompatibility between it, thunderbolt docking station [2] I used with it (which also work flawlessly), and the MBPs connected to it. I could never figure out why, even raising the issue to support with no luck.
My two cents.
[0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B088WGKFZH
[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08N494N7X
[2] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08HR3T837