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Magic Switch: Share Apple Magic keyboard/track-pad/mouse between two Macs

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aaronbrethorst · 1791128866 · focus · HN ↗
The solution I settled on was swapping between my personal and work laptops with a thunderbolt cable that connects to a dock. The dock is connected to my keyboard, trackpad, webcam, and monitor. It’s been working like a champ for the past 3+ years.
1. asadjb · 1791136227 · focus · HN ↗
  I had a similar solution but got tired of swapping the cable b/w the two laptops. I found <a href="https://sabrent.com/products/sb-tb4k" rel="nofollow">https://sabrent.com/products/sb-tb4k which keeps both machines connected and can switch b/w the two with a "switch button" which is connected to the KVM switch.
  This was the only KVM I found which connects to 2 Thunderbolt devices at once, everything else was relying on HDMI+USB3 for the host connection.

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